Tag: gambling
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Fans Unite (FANS.C) to amalgamate with Askott Entertainment in $26m deal to build e-sports/sport betting giant
In baseball, the best trade between teams, it’s often been said, is one in which both teams think they got the better end of the deal. Today’s announcement between Fans Unite (FANS.C) and privately held but long considered public listing-bound Askott Entertainment appears to be just one of those deals. The pair have entered into…
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Everything is up: Eat, drink, be merry… for tomorrow we die
When the history books are written on this passage of our lives, under pandemic lockdown and with once-in-three-generations levels of unemployment, they’ll note that in order to save us from economic collapse, the government printed trillions of dollars and just fired it all into the markets out of a bazooka, only to establish a decades-long…
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FansUnite (FANS.C) sports book debuts on the CSE, pandemic be damned
We get a lot of clients wanting to be written about on Mondays because that’s when everyone drops their good news. I usually try to tell them Friday is the sweet spot, because they have less competition on the good news front (the Friday bad news dump is real), and their stories will be read…
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![2020 Gravitas Securities Growth Conference lines up seriously interesting deals, even in weed]()
2020 Gravitas Securities Growth Conference lines up seriously interesting deals, even in weed
Respect where it’s due, I haven’t been to an investor conference in a long time where I came away interested in most of what I saw, let alone *everything* I saw, but this year’s Gravitas Securities Growth Conference lineup absolutely hit it out of the park. The GSGC isn’t the biggest show around, but they…
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Explain It Like I’m Five: eXeBlock Blockchain Technology (XBLK.C) explained
So I was chatting to a broker this week about companies I like in the blockchain sector, and mentioned eXeBlock Technology (XBLK.C), one of our marketing clients. “I don’t understand it,” said the broker. So I sent him my most recent story on the company. “I still don’t understand it,” said the broker. “What don’t…
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![Cryptocurrency deal puts eXeBlock (XBLK.C) into frame as payment processor for Peerplays network]()
Cryptocurrency deal puts eXeBlock (XBLK.C) into frame as payment processor for Peerplays network
‘The Force is not about lifting rocks. It’s a tension, order, balance.’ I know someone who has seen the new Star Wars movie eighteen times will correct the quote above, but when I saw it, that’s how I remembered Luke Skywalker’s words. I noted them specifically because, frankly, they explain why blockchain is going to…
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![Trading tuesday: Lottogopher (LOTO.C) to debut on public markets]()
Trading tuesday: Lottogopher (LOTO.C) to debut on public markets
I’ve been waiting for a while on this one. Lottogopher (LOTO.C), a company that allows, for the first time, California lottery players to buy tickets online, is about to land on the Canadian public markets this coming Tuesday. If this doesn’t seem like a big deal to you, this whole ‘online lottery sales’ thing, I’m…
