DraftKings

Sports daily fantasy and betting website DraftKings will debut as a publicly traded company Friday against a backdrop of a near-complete shutdown of athletic competition across the globe due to the coronavirus pandemic. DraftKings’ move to Wall Street was sealed Thursday after shareholders of a blank-check company, Diamond Eagle Acquisition Corp., approved a merger. Blank check companies typically are publicly…

Through the first nine months of 2019, DraftKings Inc.’s net losses grew significantly over the prior year, according to the first detailed, public glimpse into the company’s financials in a new securities filing related to its plan to go public. The Boston-based fantasy sports and betting firm revealed Monday that it lost $114 million through Sept. 30. That’s more than…

As legalized sports betting rolls out in neighboring New Hampshire, Massachusetts continues to asses the best way to implement it, and a top legislator said that the process may take some time. Sen. Eric Lesser, who chairs the Massachusetts Legislature’s Joint Committee on Economic Development and Emerging Technologies, told The Boston Herald that the issue is being watched closely...

Legal sports betting is set to kick off in New Hampshire right before the new year, a month after a contract with DraftKings was approved. Gov. Chris Sununu will place a ceremonial first wager at the Shoppers Pub + Eatery at Indian Head in Manchester on Monday, Dec. 30. Mobile sports betting will also launch that day, which is sooner…

Sports betting giant Draftkings unveiled its new headquarters in downtown Boston Tuesday morning. The company’s CEO and founders showed off their new facility in Boston’s Back Bay with a tour and ribbon cutting ceremony attended by Gov. Charlie Baker and other officials.

DraftKings was prepared for this morning’s decision.

Massachusetts House Speaker Robert DeLeo intends to take time before taking up a bill on sports betting, according to the State House News Service.

Massachusetts officials on Monday began weighing the pros and cons of legalized sports betting after the U.S. Supreme Court gave states the green light to consider it.

Massachusetts lawmakers are considering taxing daily fantasy sports operators like Boston’s DraftKings.

The daily fantasy sports company DraftKings is expanding.

The two top companies in daily fantasy sports are backing out of a proposed merger one month after federal regulators sued to block it.

The Federal Trade Commission is seeking to block the merger of FanDuel and DraftKings, the two largest daily fantasy sports sites.

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