Online gambling poised to pull $528bn
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US shuns cash cow Internet gaming is now the fastest growing segment of internet commerce, according to a report from Gamingpublic.com, an industry trade publication. Revenue in the sector is growing at a rate of 22 per cent per year.â¦
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SHARES in Sportingbet plunged today as City traders had their first chance to express their alarm at the state of the international online gambling market.   The shares returned to trading after last Thursday's suspension following the arrest in New York of chairman Peter Dicks.
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Last weekend, when the U.S. Congress  passed a bill making it illegal for banks and credit-card  companies to make payments to Internet gambling sites, a legion  of online gamblers were sent scrambling to find new ways to  place their bets.
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Internet gambling firm 888 Holdings Plc  is expected to freeze indefinitely business from U.S. customers on Monday after Washington moved to tighten its online gambling laws, the Financial Times said.
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LONDON - A British website offers gamblers the chance to bet on the survival - or exit â-f Canadian chief executives. Betfair offers investors who do not shun risk the chance to finally recoup losses
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The price of shares in on-line gambling website Sportingbet have tumbled 41 percent when trading in the stock was resumed after suspension last week owing to the arrest of the company's chairman.
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With Indian gambling poised to expand, state seeks its share of the winnings.
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Online gambling has boomed, rising 566 percent since 2003, according to a poll based on data from a major gambling firm.
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How the world of online gaming spawned a multimillion-dollar shadow economy.
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Betting fans in Britain have laid down a record multi-million wager on the US presidential election, which bookies say is looking harder to call as November 2 draws near.
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A leading sports gambling Web site  said Friday it has expanded into the energy arena, opening up  betting on how high crude prices will go.
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Online gambling group 888 Holdings sees revenue from gaming rise by 7% for 2006, a trading update shows.
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Online gambling website Sportingbet will push ahead in trying to find more American customers and acquisitions despite the arrest of its former chairman in the United States, its new chief executive said in an interview published in The Financial Times.
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THERE is a shake-up of British gambling laws on the horizon that will revolutionise the betting industry and ripple out through all levels of society.
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American casino operators are planning a 5 billion pound (7.2 billion euros, $9 billion) punt on Britain becoming the gambling mecca of Europe.
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A POTENTIAL Â£12 million tie-up between British internet gambling group Betfair and Australiaâs richest man, Kerry Packer, is under threat following last weekâs high-profile horse-racing arrests.
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By Matt Richtel and Thomas Crampton  Al Baker contributed reporting. *  Broadening the U.S. attack on Internet gambling, law enforcement agents in New York have arrested the chairman of Sportingbet, which offers online sports betting and is traded on the London Stock Exchange.