Recently, Massachusetts emerged as a frontrunner to legalize online gambling in 2014, with some of the state’s chief advocates speaking out in favour of igaming expansion including State Senator Bruce Tarr, and State Treasurer and Gubernatorial candidate Steve Grossman. However, that is now unlikely to happen until next year,...
April 18th, 2014 By Charles Washington
According to the latest report published by Sweden’s gaming regulator Lotteriinspektionen, 64% of all the country’s TV gambling ad expenditure last year, equivalent to SEK 1bn ($152m), was spent by foreign, unregulated operators. The figure is even more astonishing considering those very same non-Swedish companies were not even licensed...
April 17th, 2014 By Adam Brown
On April 14th, France’s independent online gambling regulator (ARJEL) published its report on the state of the country’s online gambling market for the 1st quarter of 2014. According to the latest figures, France’s online poker industry shrunk by 10% to €65 million during the first three months of this...
April 16th, 2014 By Stephen Smith
When New Jersey introduced online gambling it was hoping the additional revenues generated would help counteract the continuing decline in its land-based casino industry. Five months on and the state Division of Gaming Enforcement has released its latest figures for March which, despite being up 15.2% compared to the...
April 15th, 2014 By Shane Larson
New Jersey is in the privileged position of being one of just three states in the whole of the USA offering internet gambling to its residents. With a population of 8.8 million people, more than three times the size of Nevada (2.8m), The Garden State is in a unique...
April 14th, 2014 By Charles Washington
The Mississippi House Gaming Committee (MGC) Chairman, Richard Bennett, has commissioned a task force to study how online gambling is faring in those US states which already have regulated markets. MGC executive director Allen Godfrey is chairman of the eight-member task force, which will take a closer look at...
April 11th, 2014 By Lucy Brown
In order to understand the potential of its gambling industry better, the Australian government commissioned Gambling Research Australia to carry out a comprehensive study of online gambling habits across the country. The study entitled “Interactive Gambling” surveyed 19,594 Australians and after three years produced an extensive 432 report designed...
April 10th, 2014 By Stephen Smith
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