In the battles being waged over whether online gambling should be regulated in the United States, one major argument has been that Internet games could lead to a higher rate of gambling addiction.
Read More . . .Online gambling company Bwin.Party, under pressure from an activist shareholder to boost its performance, said an additional 10 million euros ($13.6 million) of cost cuts would help it to meet its targets for the year.
Read More . . .A Wall Street credit rating firm that was among the most pessimistic about the prospects for Internet gambling in New Jersey has cut its already-conservative estimate on the state's first-year online winnings by more than half.
Read More . . .Interactive gaming software and services provider GTECH has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire gaming products designer and manufacturer International Game Technology (IGT) for $4.7 billion (€3.5 billion) in cash and stock.
Read More . . .The New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement (DGE) has announced that online poker revenue in the state fell again in June, marking the third consecutive month of decline.
Read More . . .Online casino and sportsbook operator GVC Holdings has cited the impact of football's Fifa World Cup as the main reason behind an increase to record levels of revenue during the three months to June 30, 2014.
Read More . . .Police in China have seized Y18 billion ($2.9 billion/€2.1 billion) worth of illegal assets used across two days for gambling on different aspects of football's 2014 Fifa World Cup.
Read More . . .Regulators in Delaware have reported that the US state's regulated online gambling service has fallen significantly short of revenue targets during the first fiscal year of its launch.
Read More . . .Researchers say architectural design cues make people want to gamble, perhaps more than digital environments do.
Read More . . .I've been watching the World Cup with some frustrated American social scientists. When they see an underdog team triumph with a miraculous rebound or an undeserved penalty kick, they don't jump up and scream "Goooaaalll!" They just shake their heads and mutter, "Measurement error."
Read More . . .Horse racing is a dying sport or so, at least, goes one sort of conventional wisdom, in the face of declining foal crops, handle, field size, and crowds.
Read More . . .Legendary poker player Phil Ivey on Wednesday filed a motion in federal court to dismiss Borgata casino's lawsuit that seeks repayment of $9.6 million that Ivey won playing mini-baccarat on four visits to the Atlantic City site in 2012.
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