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DraftKings Inc. (DraftKings) has made the step to acquire prediction market company Railbird to gain a foothold in the growing sports contract market.
The deal marks another milestone for DraftKings as the national gambling name is anticipating a new mobile predictions platform for launch in late 2025 or early 2026, named DraftKings Predictions.
DraftKings acquires Railbird to enhance portfolio...
GGPoker has publicly addressed the recent integrity breach involving superstar players in the GGMillion$ Tournament, including its ambassador, Tony “Ren” Lin.
The debacle surrounded several players involved in tournaments running at the same time, the GGMillion$ online and the WSOP Super Circuit Cyprus Main Event.
Lin was alleged to have given a player advice in a live hand of poker in the online...
The Netherlands Gambling Authority (Ksa) is introducing a new limited operating license to streamline its application process.
The Ksa has announced that it will introduce a limited operating license that only permits the operation of skill-based machines. The goal is to make it easier for those who only operate skill-based machines to apply for a license, hopefully streamlining the process and...
Kambi’s Turnkey Sportsbook is coming to the Netherlands in a new multi-year agreement signed between Kambi and Betnation.
Kambi, known for offering a ready-to-use sportsbook to betting operators, has signed a new deal that would bring its offering to the Netherlands via Dutch online operator Betnation. The multi-year deal will see Kambi back up Betnation’s online sports betting services, handling...
Belgium’s Gambling Commission (Kansspelcommissie) has used the publication of its annual report as a springboard to push for regulatory reform.
Commission president Magali Clavie opened the Kansspelcommissie’s report with a letter that underlines the need for regulatory reform in the country. She argues that delaying any further puts Belgium behind the curve when compared with other European...
It's hard to pay attention to the business of journalism without hearing about data journalism or data-driven journalism. But despite all the discussion of the topic, there's precious little documentation to guide practicing and future journalists in becoming proficient in it. The Data Journalism Handbook aims to fix that, albeit at a high...
Easily the largest contributors to ReadWriteWeb's overall traffic on any given day include technology news aggregation services, one of them being Techmeme. It's a service that pulls interesting headlines from amid the ever-flowing sea of content, and compiles them into an amalgamated front page of what's happening; it's directed toward a specific audience, which Techmeme hopes includes you. It...
A scrappy company to help journalists dig into Big Data has come into its own in the past year, including the requisite all-night hacking codeathon this week at the Investigative Reporters and Editors Computer-Assisted Reporting Conference in St. Louis. The company is called ScraperWiki.com and was started by Julian Todd and Aidan McGuire, two U.K.-based analysts who have been long involved in...
WordPress has released version 2.0 of its Android app for mobile blogging, and as a WordPress for iOS user, I am jealous. The new app launches with a screen that covers just about every first action a mobile blogger needs. It's arranged in correct order of priority, and it uses a big, easily tappable grid of buttons with an "action bar" over the top to handle the rest.
Other additions are...
News and activity feeds are more alive today than ever before, even as engagement with their simplest format, Really Simple Syndication (RSS), appears to be waning. What were the Top 10 Most Awesome RSS...