Online M&A: LVS happy to play a waiting game
Las Vegas Sands is planning to enter the online gambling space via M&A, but it is in no rush to get the check book out. Las Vegas Sands’ Q4 earnings provided minimal certainty on when the group will reopen its Macau and Singapore casino strongholds, but for those following the online sports betting industry, there […]
Florida sports betting ballot measure ‘doomed,’ consultant says
The DraftKings and FanDuel-backed Florida Education Champions (FEC) initiative has spent $35 million trying to get its question on the ballot but is running short of time. As of a Tuesday, the FEC petition had reached just over 427,000 verified signatures. It needs 891,589 to not just be submitted but verified by the end of this […]
The Handle: Operators’ struggle with Gen-Z slot players
The Handle is a regular newsletter dedicated to providing the best insights in gaming news. To get The Handle delivered to your inbox, subscribe here. Operators and the struggle to get Gen-Z into slots-like gaming Explaining the Analogy to the Juul Device Before anything, we’d like to take a minute to remind everyone that this is […]
Analyzing Super Group and its market share claims
In all the hype surrounding the U.S. market right now, the positioning of Betway parent Super Group is interesting. Speaking during a recent digital fireside chat with the analysts at Needham & Co, the management of Super Group spoke about its ambitions in the U.S. Super Group hopes to complete its merger with the Sports […]
Rise of the middleweights
GIG’s acquisition of the sportsbook solutions provider Sportnco and NeoGames’ takeover of Aspire Global shows that medium-sized suppliers of online betting and gaming solutions are looking at different ways to expand. GIG’s $50m purchase of Sportnco ($27.3m paid in cash) provides it with a sportsbook solution that is well established and accustomed to highly regulated […]