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Culture Secretary Tessa Jowell is to seek an international agreement on how to regulate the internet gambling industry.
Ms Jowell is opening the first international summit to discuss the global impact of the massive industry, which already boasts one million regular punters in this ...
LONDON - Delegates from Britain, France, Germany, Spain, Italy, South Africa will attend a meeting outside London today to complete negotiations on a code of conduct for the online gambling industry.
U.S. officials were invited but decided not to attend, preferring an approach that ...
U.K. Culture Secretary Tessa Jowell worked to agree a set of principles guiding the regulation of internet gambling in 32 nations as research showed that bets placed on the web doubled in the last five years.
A study by RSe Consulting found about 1 million people place bets regularly ...
To say that the decision to grant Britain’s leading online betting business a licence to operate in Tasmania has been a contentious one in Australia’s sports betting circles would be an understatement.
The racing industry and other State governments maintain that making a betting ...
The betting group Ladbrokes is circling the troubled online gaming industry and hopes to cash in on the companies' distressed valuations. Merger and acquisition talks between internet betting firms are rife as they attempt to mitigate the loss of their US operations, outlawed after ...
The online gambling industry has mounted an attack on U.S. Sen. Jon Kyl, who co-sponsored a bill that bans the use of credit cards, PayPal and bank accounts for Internet gambling. The gaming Web site Gambling 911.com, even went so far as to threaten a media attack against the ...
A financial adviser who conned clients out of £2.3m to feed an online gambling habit has been jailed for nine years. Philip Smith, 49, formerly of Gaddum Road in Bowdon, Greater Manchester, pleaded guilty to offences including theft, forgery and money laundering.
KOLKATA - Close friends since college days, Akhil Gupta and Sunil Baheti have never missed each other on the Diwali (Festival of Lights) night gambling bashes each year, even though they have lived some 13,000 kilometers apart for the past four years. Every year while Akhil and his other ...
On 13 October President Bush signed the law that triggered the market value meltdown of several internet gambling operators that derived much of their turnover from US punters (the most prominent being Partygaming, 888 Holdings and Sportingbet). What many people don't know is that President ...
A famous Las Vegas Landmark is getting ready to close after nearly 50 years on the Strip. The Stardust has had many milestones, one of which involves its Race and Sports Book.
When it opened back in 1975, it offered a $100,000 bet limit. Many people stopped by the Sports Book for the ...
Here in THE U.S., it's OK to bet on horses, play Lotto, gamble at Indian casinos, wager in Atlantic City. And in Las Vegas, it's virtually a patriotic duty to gamble. In all, you can legally bet in 46 of 50 states, but not over the Internet. Online gambling is illegal.
A Perth-based company has been fined $5.5 million for sending millions of unsolicited emails, with a judge labelling the spam annoying, costly to combat, and a threat to the internet.
It is the first time an Australian company has been fined under the the federal government's spam ...
