3.30pm update: Online money transfer business NETeller says it will continue operating in the US until new regulations on internet gambling are drawn up. By Hans Kundnani….

Online gaming bosses will not be able to escape extradition through Government appeals.The news from minister Richard Caborn confirmed what the gaming world had suspected….

A call for greater regulation of the massive international gambling industry will be made today by Tessa Jowell, the Culture Secretary….

Culture secretary calls the US authorities’ stance on online gambling “the new prohibition”….

Culture Secretary Tessa Jowell wants internet gambling sites - banned in the US - to register in the UK….

Defence coach Mike Ford says debutants Anthony Allen and Shaun Perry can revitalise England against New Zealand….

A FINANCIAL adviser who stole £2.3 million to fund an addiction to online gambling was jailed for nine years yesterday. Philip Smith, 48, of Bowdon, Cheshire, conned at least 50 victims - many of them elderly and vulnerable…….

If your poker face generally involves looking glum as someone takes away your life savings in a wheelbarrow, you need the Briefing Room’s Texas hold ‘em survival guide. …

SEOUL, Oct 31 (Reuters Life!) - Las Vegas magicians can make tigers disappear but North Korea may have cornered the market for magicians who juggle fish. North Korean official media reported on Tuesday that the reclusive country had just completed its……

By Kate KellandLONDON (Reuters) - Internet gambling should be properly regulated but not banned outright, Culture Secretary Tessa Jowell said on Tuesday.Speaking ahead of an international political summit on online gaming later on Tuesday……

Culture Secretary Tessa Jowell is to push for an international agreement to control internet gambling.She will make the bid at the first international summit on the global impact of the industry….

Culture Secretary Tessa Jowell is to push for an international agreement to control internet gambling.She will make the bid at the first international summit on the global impact of the industry….

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So the US bans effectively online gambling and your company stock tumbles through the floor. What now? Merger rumours or acquisition? In the case of 888 and Partygaming, both affected drastically from the US Bill, were rumoured to have… Continue . …

PartyGaming and 888 Holdings discuss £1.6bn merger….

Online gaming firm 888 Holdings has confirmed it has been holding talks with third parties since the US web betting crackdown last month. It follows reports at the weekend that it had held preliminary negotiations about a possible £1.6bn merger with its big rival PartyGaming….

The betting group Ladbrokes is circling the troubled online gaming industry and hopes to cash in on the companies’ distressed valuations….

PartyGaming and 888 Holdings discuss £1.6bn merger as industry tries to replace lost revenues….

The growing rise in online betting has led to Britain becoming a nation of internet gamblers, according to a new study. British players now account for nearly one third of the 3.5 million online gamblers in Europe…

Bookmakers predict that the eventual winner of this year’s X Factor will top the Christmas chart….

The online gaming companies are trying to salvage their shattered business models by merging into a new internet gaming company worth in the region of £1.6bn….

Robert Pittman, the co-founder of MTV, has emerged as a potential buyer of the Hard Rock Cafe chain, put up for sale by Rank Group, the leisure and gaming company….

Dunnhumby, the database and marketing services company owned by Tesco, the UK’s largest retailer, has formed a joint venture with Casino, France’s second largest grocer, to revamp its customer loyalty and promotional programme….

Hearts, whose owner Vladimir Romanov threatened to sell all his players if they failed to beat Dunfermline in the SPL on Saturday, drew 1-1 as they struggled to overcome the pre-match controversy. …

America’s bestest friend in the world, the UK, has taken its first jab at the US ban of online gambling. Comparing it, like many, to the prohibition era, Tessa Jowell, the UK’s Culture Secretary likened unregulated offshore online casinos… Continue . …

Macau has become the world’s top gambling destination, analysts said yesterday, after the latest earnings figures from the southern Chinese territory showed it had probably topped the famous Las Vegas strip….