Israel-based social casino game developer Playtika closes up 17.1% on its first day of trading, valuing the company at $14.5B, after raising $1.88B in its IPO (Dean Takahashi/VentureBeat)

Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Israel-based social casino game developer Playtika closes up 17.1% on its first day of trading, valuing the company at $14.5B, after raising $1.88B in its IPO  —  Playtika went public today in an initial public offering at $27 a share, giving the mobile game publisher a valuation of $11.4 billion.