Casino Cabbie: Letter From America 6
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With Chickens Coming Home To Roost, Entain Expects To Get A Roasting For Turkey
UK gambling giant Entain–owners of Ladbrokes Coral, bwin, PartyPoker, et al–is facing a mega multi-million pounds fine for historic bribery and financial…
Where’s My Pickle? The LeoVegas Slider Continues
When Big Bill Hornbuckle, the boss of MGM Resorts International, flips open his cheeseburger today, checking on the status of that all-important…
Whitezip and Markor Technology Announce Merger to Create an Industry Powerhouse
Renowned operator Whitezip announces merger with Global iGaming PAM and aggregation provider Markor Technology. Whitezip’s Chief Executive Officer Dersim Sylwan appointed CEO…
Paf Expands Presence in Latvian Gaming Market with Acquisitions from 888
Leading Nordic iGaming operator Paf has become the third largest betting company in the Latvian market with the acquisition of WilliamHill.lv and…
Boosted By AdTech, The Americas, Better Collective Achieves Record Growth in Q1
Boosted by a strategic investment in its cutting-edge AdTech platform, iGaming media Affiliate Better Collective has reported an outstanding Q1. The company…
From Neophyte To Aristocrat, Ozzie Heavy Metal Giants End iGaming Drought With US$1.2bn Cash Flood
If at first you don’t succeed then try, and try again. Following their aborted US$3.37bn (£2.7bn) takeover bid for Playtech early last…
Playing The FanDuel Advantage, Flutter Posts A Killer Q1.
Boosted by the sterling performance of its US sportsbook, FanDuel, currently smashing all like-for-like opposition in North America, Paddy Power owner Flutter…
Wham, Bam, Thank You Mam, MGM Resorts International Roars Back To Life
Buoyed by a big increase in its Las Vegas Strip action, the end of the China Covid19 lockdown and its ground-breaking billion-dollar…
LeoVegas Group Acquires Majority Stake in Push Gaming
LeoVegas Group has entered into an agreement to acquire a majority stake in game developer Push Gaming through its investment arm, LeoVentures….
HappyHour Leads Seed Extension Round in Betty Gaming
HappyHour.io, an investor in the gaming industry, has announced its investment in Betty.ca, an iCasino live and licensed in Ontario, Canada with…
NorthStar Gaming to Acquire Slapshot Media, Expand Brand
NorthStar Gaming Holdings Inc., a prominent player in the iGaming industry, has announced its plans to acquire 100% of the issued and…
Super Surfer Entain Rides Wave Of Success, Smashes Towering Q1.
Looking around the competition, Omnichannel Entain has every right to think it’s got the best body on the beach. Led by its…
BeyondPlay Raises €5M in Oversubscribed Funding Round
BeyondPlay, the B2B start-up developing next-generation engagement software for online gaming operators, has raised a further €5 million (£4.4 million/$5.51 million) from…
IMG ARENA Completes Acquisition of Leap Gaming
IMG ARENA today acquired Leap Gaming (Leap), a provider of high-end virtual games for online, mobile and retail markets. Leap’s cutting-edge, 3-D…
FansUnite Entertainment Inc. Announces $2 Million Private Placement Led by Tekkorp Capital
FansUnite Entertainment Inc. has announced a non-brokered private placement of units of the Company, valued at $2,000,000 (the “Offering”). The Offering comprises…
Allwyn AG Completes Acquisition of Camelot Lottery Solutions Group
Allwyn AG, a prominent lottery operator in Europe, has announced the successful completion of its acquisition of the Camelot Lottery Solutions group…
Pulling All Its Levers, Allwyn Adds €335m Accordion Loan To Its Playbook
Allwyn, soon-to-be operators of the UK’s National Lottery, is back on the financial merry-go-round, leveraging its capture of the crown jewels of…
Starship Troopers: Better Collective Reports Stellar FY22
Powered by the Qatar World Cup and keen corporate strategy, super media Affiliate Better Collective has reported a stellar FY2022, with revenue…
LeoVegas Group Divests BeyondPlay with Impressive ROI
LeoVegas Group has announced the divestment of its 25 percent stake in BeyondPlay, formerly known as SharedPlay, to venture firm Bettor Capital…
Esports Entertainment Group, Inc. Announces Sale of Bethard iGaming Business
Esports Entertainment Group, Inc. has announced the sale of its Bethard iGaming business, an online casino and sportsbook operator licensed in Malta…
PENN Entertainment Successfully Acquires Barstool Sports
PENN Entertainment, Inc. has announced the successful completion of its acquisition of Barstool Sports, Inc. for approximately $388 million. This marks a…
Betty, a Real Money Entertainment Startup, Raises $5 Million Seed Round
Betty, an entertainment company innovating at the intersection of real money online casino (iCasino) and casual mobile gaming, announced today that it…
Tekkorp Capital Continues Expansion; Former CFO of William Hill US Mark McMillan Bolsters Team as Partner
Tekkorp Capital, the investment vehicle founded by gaming entrepreneur Matt Davey, has added former William Hill US Chief Financial Officer, Mark McMillan,…
Super Group Announces Proposed Sale of B2B Division of Digital Gaming Corporation to Games Global
Super Group, the parent company of Betway, a leading online sports betting and gaming business, and Spin, the multi-brand online casino, have…
Clayton Larcombe’s PAC Capital Leads Series A4 Funding Round for Bayes Esports
Bayes Esports, the leading source for official esports live data, announces an investment that brings the total capital raised for the Berlin-based…
Planet Sport Acquires Tipstrr
Planet Sport – the Leeds-based digital media group business that specialises in sports and betting entertainment has announced the acquisition of Tipstrr,…
Greentube Enhances Software Development Capabilities with Ineor Acquisition
Greentube, the NOVOMATIC Digital Gaming and Entertainment division, has made another significant move in the M&A space with the acquisition of international…
Don’t Let Us Detain You, Entain To Accelerate Exit From Unregulated Markets
And so begins the big pullback–and perhaps the start of a great new iGaming mystery–as heavy-hitter Entain announces the equivalent of “Don’t…
Playtika Announces Premium, All Cash Proposal To Acquire Rovio Entertainment
Playtika Holding Corp., a leading mobile gaming company and monetization platform, today announced it submitted a revised proposal to the Board of…
SkillOnNet Invests in Peter & Sons Games Studio
SkillOnNet, the online casino operator and platform which powers some of the world’s biggest casino brands, is strategically investing in the independent…
Greentube Acquires Majority Shareholding in iGaming Management System Provider Alteatec
Greentube, the NOVOMATIC Digital Gaming and Entertainment division, has acquired a controlling shareholding in the market-leading iGaming management system and platform provider…
Golden Matrix Signs Agreement to Acquire MeridianBet Group
Golden Matrix Group, Inc. developer, licensor and global operator of online gaming and eCommerce platforms, systems, and gaming content, today announced that…
Lion Gaming Group Inc. Announces the Acquisition of 1Click Games
Lion Gaming Group, an iGaming technology platform provider that offers white-label casino and sportsbook solutions built for the future of the iGaming…
PlayStar to Receive $15 Million in Equity Funding from Meyer Global Management
The ongoing U.S. expansion plans of PlayStar Gaming Group AB (http://www.PlayStar.com) (PlayStar or the Company) have been bolstered by news that the…
Gaming Innovation Group Acquires AskGamblers
Gaming Innovation Group Inc. (GiG) has signed an agreement to acquire the casino affiliate websites Askgamblers.com, Johnslots.com, Newcasinos.com and several smaller domains…
Facing Buyer’s Regret, 888 is Drowning in Debt After Reverse Takeover of Storied William Hill
At the time–with the world awash with cheap money–it seemed like a master-stroke; a supreme marriage of convenience between the brash, ballsy…
Glitnor Group Adds New Venture Capital Arm to its Business with the Launch of Glitnor Ventures
Glitnor Group, the hugely successful Malta-based iGaming group that counts Lucky Casino, Happy Casino and Swintt among its prestigious list of brands,…
PressEnter Group Announces Management Buyout
PressEnter Group is the subject of a Management Buyout led by Chief Executive Officer Lahcene Merzoug and members of his executive management…
Sports Micro Betting Provider Kero Gaming Announces Oversubscribed $2M Funding Round led by Happyhour.io
Kero Gaming announced today the closing of an oversubscribed $2 Million Seed 2 round, its second this year, with Happyhour.io, an early-stage VC fund in…
RAW iGaming to Revolutionise Casual Games Space with Spigo Acquisition
RAW iGaming, creator of the ground-breaking SuperSlice® engine, has purchased the full asset portfolio of Spigo from Lady Luck Games AB. This…
Buckle Up, In a Thrilling Game of High-stakes Poker MGM Resorts Plans World Domination
Perhaps the salient clue lies in the name: LeoVegas, a cheeky appropriation of two of the biggest branding images of world gambling…
Trussed Like A Turkey, Allwyn Is All Set To Consume Camelot For Christmas
The UK National Lottery may have raised almost £423 million (US$473.25m/€484.78m) for good causes in the first quarter of its penultimate financial…
Betmakers Technology Group Ltd Acquires Punting Form
BetMakers Technology Group Limited has announced that it has entered into a share purchase deed (Deed) to acquire ABettorEdge Pty Ltd ACN…
Acroud Completes £5.1m Acquisition of Affiliate and Media Company
Acroud AB has today entered into a purchase agreement to acquire 60% shares in an Affiliation and Media company, Acroud Media Ltd…
Tabcorp Makes Strategic Investment in Dabble Sports
Tabcorp Holdings Limited (Tabcorp) announces it has agreed to make a strategic investment in fast-growing, socialised digital wagering platform, Dabble Sports Pty…
GameCo and Green Jade Join forces in Exciting Merger
GameCo™ has today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to merge with Malta-based studio Green Jade Games, creating a…
Xpoint Announces New Funding Round to Further Accelerate Growth
Xpoint, the leading geolocation technology company specializing in sports betting, iGaming and daily fantasy sports (DFS) operators in North America, has announced a…
When Kristian Meets Christian, For Kambi It’s the Shape of Things to Come
It only takes two to make a church, and a win-win deal. So when cutting-edge Kambi buys red-hot Shape Games it’s probably…
DAZN Announces Acquisition of Eleven Sports and Team Whistle
DAZN Group, a leading global sports platform, today announced an agreement to acquire the ELEVEN Group’s global sports media businesses. The deal expands…