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All in: GVC again raises offer to pry Bwin from 888

British online gambling company GVC Holdings Plc raised its offer to buy rival Bwin.party Digital Entertainment Plc for a second time in two weeks, hoping to persuade the company to reject 888 Holdings Plc’s offer. GVC’s latest offer, backed by U.S. private equity firm Cerberus Capital Management, is worth 1.03 billion pounds ($1.6 billion) in cash and stock and is only slightly higher than its previous offer of about 1

China's JD.com quarterly revenue tops estimates, third-quarter growth seen slowing

By Paul Carsten BEIJING (Reuters) – JD.com Inc, China’s second-largest e-commerce site by sales, reported a 61 percent year-on-year rise in quarterly revenue, topping expectations, powered by a jump in the number of shoppers and goods bought on its platform. The group’s second-quarter revenue of 45.9 billion yuan ($7.4 billion) exceeded an average estimate of 44.45 billion, according to a Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S poll of 14 analysts. JD.com, a distant

China's JD.com quarterly revenue tops estimates, third-quarter growth seen slowing

By Paul Carsten BEIJING (Reuters) – JD.com Inc, China’s second-largest e-commerce site by sales, reported a 61 percent year-on-year rise in quarterly revenue, topping expectations, powered by a jump in the number of shoppers and goods bought on its platform. The group’s second-quarter revenue of 45.9 billion yuan ($7.4 billion) exceeded an average estimate of 44.45 billion, according to a Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S poll of 14 analysts. JD.com, a distant