Germany’s second most populous state has elected to adopt a state-controlled monopoly for online casino games.
The State Lottery and Casino Administration of Bavaria will hand the online casino games monopoly to state-owned Lotto Bayern, which is also the sole land-based casino operator with nine casinos in the state.
The government of [...]
Frankfurt-listed betting and gaming operator bet-at-home.com has posted an 11 per cent drop in full year gross betting and gaming revenue to €126.9m in 2020.
Revenue was negatively impacted by the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic due to the cancellation and postponement of sporting events from mid-March, while the first steps [...]
New York-listed casino and sports betting operator Bally’s Corporation has made an unsolicited offer to acquire World Poker Tour-owner Allied Esports Entertainment for $100m.
Allied Esports has agreed to sell its WPT business and assets to Element Partners for $78.3m, with Bally’s looking to usurp that deal.
The bid from Bally’s would [...]
London-listed betting and gaming operator Entain is marking International Women’s Day with a number of new initiatives aimed at supporting girls and young women around the world in building careers in technology.
Entain has partnered with Girls Who Code and the Tech Girls Movement Foundation, two organisations that work to promote [...]
Christina Thakor-Rankin of All-In Diversity on the challenge of promoting diversity and inclusion in a global industry
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M&A was thin on the ground in February with B2B and market access deals dominating.
Playtech secured its showcase US deal with Parx Casino owner Greenwood Racing. The company supplies games to existing customers Entain and Bet365 in New Jersey but the company needed a platform deal to fully announce its [...]
After a slow start to the year in January, there was better news for industry stakeholders in February as shares in the leading operators and suppliers rose by a combined 5.6 per cent by month end.
After posting a decline of 7.8 per cent last month, the 50 publicly-listed operators and [...]
Online instant win games provider IWG has extended its partnership with long-term customer British Colombia Lottery Corporation (BCLC) to include the supplier’s jackpot-enabled e-Instant games.
BCLC’ PlayNow.com becomes the fifth North American lottery to launch Jungle Tumble Jackpots, the first game to include IWG’s InstantJackpots technology. A second title is expected [...]
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Pragmatic Play’s ONE BlackjackPragmatic Play has launched its latest live casino game ONE Blackjack.
Broadcasted from Pragmatic Play’s state-of-the-art studio, ONE Blackjack allows an unlimited number of [...]
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Pariplay / PafAspire Global-owned Pariplay has signed an agreement to integrate its Fusion platform with Paf, giving the operator access to more than 14,000 games.
“Paf [...]
Sports data provider Sportradar has announced the acquisition of UK-based personalized messaging platform Fresh Eight.
The acquisition complements Sportradar’s ad:s platform and aims to strengthen its digital marketing services offering.
The technology will also allow sports-orientated publishers to control the integration of native and personalised sport-betting content into their platforms.
Fresh Eight’s current [...]
Bragg Gaming Group’s Oryx Gaming is powering a new iGaming platform for Croatian land-based operator Senator.
Oryx has supplied the operator with its turnkey solution, including the Oryx iGaming platform, Oryx Hub and a wide selection of Oryx RGS and third-party aggregated content.
Senator, which operates 17 land-casinos in Croatia, will also [...]