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Pronet Gaming powers truenorth.bet in Canada

iGaming solutions provider Pronet Gaming is powering a new online sports betting and gaming platform for truenorth.bet in Canada.

Pronet is providing a full turnkey service to the Kahnawake-licensed operator, including micro markets on some of Canada’s niche sports, such as sprint car racing, lacrosse and Canadian boxing, sports that are [...]

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BetMGM

BetMGM goes live in South Dakota with Liv Hospitality

US sports betting and iGaming operator BetMGM has opened a retail sportsbook in South Dakota through its partnership with Liv Hospitality.

BetMGM accepted its first sports bet late last week as it opened retail destinations within Liv Hospitality’s Tin Lizzie Gaming Resort and Cadillac Jack’s Gaming Resort.

Tin Lizzie debuted a state-of-the-art [...]

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Barstool Sportsbook Ameristar

Barstool Sportsbook partners Genius Sports

New York-listed sports data provider Genius Sports has entered into a long-term partnership to provide official data and fan engagement solutions to Penn National Gaming’s Barstool Sportsbook.

Genius Sports will provide the Barstool Sportsbook with a full suite of US sports content, including exclusive EPL, NASCAR, and NFL data feeds and [...]

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Gaming Realms

Gaming Realms returns to profit in first half of 2021

London-listed Gaming Realms has grown first half revenue by 50 per cent year-on-year to £7.7m, driven by strong increases in brand and content licensing fees.

Gaming Realms’ licensing revenue grew by 73 per cent to £5.8m in the first six months of 2021 as content licensing revenue climbed 39 per cent [...]

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Intralot

Sports betting boosts Intralot first half revenue

Athens-listed lottery and gaming solutions provider Intralot has reported a 34 per cent rise in group turnover to €202.6m in the first half of 2021, with sports betting in the comparable period last year negatively impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic.

After seeing solid growth during the first quarter of 2021, Intralot’s [...]

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First operators go live in Arizona sports betting market

Arizona has become the latest US state to launch a regulated sports betting market, with a number of leading sportsbook operators going live in the Grand Canyon State Thursday.

The launch follows license approvals granted by the Arizona Department of Gaming in August, allocating 18 of the state’s 20 sports betting [...]

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Connecticut aims to launch iGaming and Sports Betting in October

Connecticut’s regulated online gaming and sports betting market is expected to open next month after the US Department of Interior approved the state’s amended gaming compacts with the Mashantucket Pequot and Mohegan Tribes.

The approval marks a major step forward towards the launch of the regulated market and follows the legalisation [...]

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GI Games Round-up: Red Tiger, Greentube, Pragmatic Play and more

This week’s games and platform integrations round-up from Gaming Intelligence features leading iGaming suppliers such as Red Tiger, Greentube, High 5 Games, Pragmatic Play, iSoftBet, Pariplay, Relax Gaming and NetEnt.

Red Tiger’s NFT Megaways

Evolution-owned Red Tiger has released NFT Megaways, its first slot game to integrate non-fungible tokens (NFTs).

“At Evolution we [...]

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Evolution acquires spinning wheel game developer DigiWheel

Stockholm-listed casino supplier Evolution has entered into an agreement to acquire Cork-based DigiWheel, developer of a unique HD spinning gaming wheel.

Evolution will acquire the business for a total up-front consideration of €1m in cash, together with an earn-out payment based on DigiWheel’s net income for the third year following closing.

Evolution [...]

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Catena Media

Catena Media acquires US iGaming affiliate i15 Media

Stockholm-listed lead generation specialist Catena Media has strengthened its North American operations with the acquisition of i15 Media for a total consideration of $45m.

Catena Media will pay $12.5m in cash on closing of the transaction, with a further $20m to be paid in three instalments: $5m in cash or shares [...]

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Tipico

Tipico to establish new Colorado technology hub

Sports betting operator Tipico will establish a new technology hub in Colorado to create more than 400 new jobs in the Centennial State.

Tipico currently has a 42-person office in Hoboken, New Jersey, and expects to add as many as 441 jobs in the US over the next eight years.

“We are [...]

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IGT

Enrico Drago to head up IGT’s new dedicated Digital & Betting division

New York-listed International Game Technology (IGT) has established a dedicated Digital & Betting business segment, which will be headed up by long-serving executive Enrico Drago.

The Digital & Betting segment comprises IGT’s iGaming and sports betting activities that were previously part of the Global Gaming segment.

Drago will serve as CEO of [...]

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