The New York State Gaming Commission has received six applications for mobile sports betting platform provider licenses covering 13 operators.
Betfair Interactive, trading as FanDuel, has submitted a license application in partnership with Bally Bet, BetMGM and DraftKings.
Sports Information Services Limited, trading as Kambi, has submitted two applications, one in partnership [...]
London-listed betting and gaming operator Flutter Entertainment has seen group revenue double to £3.05bn during the first half of 2021, buoyed by a strong performance from its online sports betting product.
Revenue soared by 99 per cent following the acquisition of The Stars Group (TSG) last year, with the 2020 comparative [...]
BetMGM, the online gaming and sports betting joint venture between MGM Resorts International and Entain, has partnered with Gila River Hotels & Casinos and the Arizona Cardinals to enter Arizona’s regulated sports betting market.
BetMGM plans to operate four retail sportsbooks in the state, three at Arizona Gila River properties and [...]
Shares in Sydney-listed sports betting operator BlueBet Holdings gained over 8 per cent Tuesday after the company announced a market access deal with the Colorado River Indian Tribes (CRIT) and BlueWater Resort & Casino.
The agreement gives BlueBet access to Arizona’s regulated sports betting market, adding to its existing Iowa market [...]
Aspire Global-owned sportsbook and gaming platform provider BtoBet has named Guy Gani as its new chief technology officer.
Gani will help to drive BtoBet's next phase of growth by accelerating its technological engineering development, leveraging his experience from Evolution-owned Ezugi, where he served as head of research and development, and his [...]
New York-listed casino and sportsbook operator Bally’s Corporation has seen revenue soar by 826 per cent to a record $267.7m in the second quarter of 2021.
The strong revenue growth was primarily due to a reduction in Covid-19 restrictions, with all casino properties operating at full capacity by the end of [...]
New York-listed Scientific Games has reported a 63 per cent increase in revenue to $880m for the second quarter of 2021, buoyed by record performances from its Lottery and Digital segments.
Revenue from the company’s core Gaming business soared by 303 per cent to $367m compared to last year’s Covid-impacted Q2 [...]
New York-listed sports betting and fantasy sports operator DraftKings has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire US online casino operator Golden Nugget Online Gaming in an all-stock deal worth $1.56bn.
The acquisition will allow DraftKings to leverage Golden Nugget’s well-known brand, iGaming product experience and existing combined database of more [...]
Iowa’s regulated sports betting market declined for the fourth consecutive month as total wagers fell by 20 per cent sequentially to $88.94m in July 2021.
The state’s 18 operational sportsbooks generated online wagers of $77.92m during the month, with retail sports wagers amounting to $11.01m.
Iowa Sports Betting: July 2021 (US$)Prairie Meadows [...]
West Virginia’s licensed sports betting and iGaming operators collected total wagers of $172.2m in July.
In a strong start to the state’s new financial year, iGaming represented the bulk of the total, with sports betting contributing $21.2m in wagers, of which $15.6m was derived online.
West Virginia Sports Betting and iGaming Wagers: [...]
July proved to be a struggle for many of the leading publicly-listed gaming operators and suppliers as the combined value of the shares on the Gaming Intelligence Stock List fell by more than 4 per cent by the end of the month.
After a solid first quarter of the year, followed [...]
Sports betting will soon be available to players in Florida after the U.S. Department of the Interior allowed the state’s compact with the Seminole Tribe to pass.
The U.S. Department of the Interior had 45 days in which to approve or disapprove the Class III gaming compact agreed between the Seminole [...]