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The search engine Bing is now getting involved in esports via Bing Predicts and major esports competition The International.  Bing Predicts, which has in the past correctly called the outcome of the Scottish Referendum and incorrectly called the EU Referendum, has attempted to determine the winner of the Dota 2 competition which kicked off on Monday. Bing Predicts has stated that …

Remember those happy times just over a year ago when talk of Donald Trump as the next US President were laughed off as absurd? You only need to go back 14 months to find odds for the Donald as high as 100/1. In June 2015 he was 33/1 to win the Republican candidacy. They said it couldn’t be done. Unfortunately, they …

In a move that has surprised industry analysts, Nasdaq-listed Scientific Games Corporation (SGC) has announced the appointment of Kevin Sheehan as its new Chief Executive, as incumbent Gavin Isaacs moves to the governance position of Vice Chairman of the Board. Announcing the appointments this weekend, SGC confirmed to the media that Sheehan and Isaacs had already assumed their new governance …

It has been announced that Penn National Gaming Inc. has bought social games developer Rocket Games Inc.  The agreed fee for the acquisition of the San Francisco based developer was $60m (£45.1m), with potential incentive payments to certain Rocket executives over the next two years.  Among Rocket’s gaming library are Downtown Deluxe Slots, Triple Double Slots and the popular Viva Slots Vegas. Penn …

Embattled Caesars Entertainment Corporation (CEC) has agreed to sell its mobile and social gaming asset Playtika Studios to a multi-party Chinese consortium led by  Shi Yuzhu (Founder of Giant Interactive Group) in a $4.4 billion all-cash deal. Updating the market on Sunday, CEC governance stated that it had entered a ‘definitive agreement’ for the sale of Playtika a core part …

It has been announced that ELEAGUE and Twitter will partner to provide live streaming coverage of this week’s ELEAGUE semifinals and championship, featuring Valve’s popular Counter-Strike: Global Offensive game. The live event competitions will be held Friday and Saturday, July 29th and 30th, from Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre in Atlanta.  This will mark a milestone in that it’ll be …

Updating its ‘Next US President’ market, Betfair has detailed that Donald Trump has ‘hit his shortest price at 2.98’ of becoming the 45th leader of the United States of America. At present Betfair gives Trump a 34% chance of replacing Barack Obama, having been sworn in as official Republican Presidential Nominee at the RNC Party convention in Cleveland Ohio last …

Toronto-listed online gambling operator Amaya Inc has confirmed that it has made a number of redundancies to its London office as the operator looks to restructure its operations and reduce costs. Amaya’s staff cuts were confirmed last week by VP of Communications Eric Hollreiser to industry news source eGaming Review.   The company detailed that it was eliminating “dozens” of …

CG Technology has agreed to pay a $1.5 million fine in relation to charges of underpaying and overpaying certain bettors on the sportsbook. This comes just two months after the Nevada Gaming Control Board alleged that CG Technology had underpaid winning parlays by about $700,000 on more than 20,000 occasions from August 2011 to March 2015. The complaint also accused the …

Donald Trump, the defier of political traders, has been officially and formally nominated as the Republican candidate in the race for the US presidency.  Trump was originally priced at odds of 100/1 by William Hill to do so. This was back in March 2015, though odds quickly tumbled to 25/1 by the end of that same month as the bets …