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Next month, online gambling, daily fantasy sports (DFS), and sports betting will be topics discussed at a Congressional hearing.
ESPN’s David Purdum broke the news on Thursday, that a hearing to consider the...
Norfolk Island has been stripped of its power to approve gaming licenses as well as renew existing ones by the Australian federal government. The decision comes shortly after it was discovered that an action by...
On Tuesday April 12, 2015 Slots Plus Casino unveiled the newest game from Realtime Gaming suppliers; The Big Bopper. The game is available for download, instant and mobile play. The wide screen format video bon...
Japan may have lost it's trailblazing badminton star for the Rio de Janeiro Olympics today after bosses handed Kento Momota an "indefinite suspension" for his visit to an illegal casino with teammate, Kenichi T...
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Earlier this week it was reported that the state of Alabama had become the 12th state in the US to decide that daily fantasy sports were considered illegal gambling. Now, it ha...
This article has been updated.
After over more than a year of collaborations by journalists in about 80 countries, three days ago the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists began releasing inf...
Joining several other states across the country, Alabama’s attorney general has declared that daily fantasy sports (DFS) are considered illegal gambling and ordered the top operators in the industry to cease an...
NYX Gaming Group has managed to come to an agreement with OpenBet and confirmed it will be taking over the company for $270 million; the betting technology outfit is currently owned by the hedge funders Vitruvi...
Well known names like Vladimir Putin and the Prime Minister of Iceland have been mentioned around the seismic leak of documents surrounding off-shore law firm, Mossack Fonseca of Panama City, Panama. On Sunday...
Over the past few months, the daily fantasy sports industry in the United States has come under fire. A number of states have reviewed the activity and ruled DFS illegal. Top DFS companies, DraftKings and FanDu...
The state of Tennessee’s estimated 1 million fantasy sports customers, and companies such as DraftKings and FanDuel, would be on solid legal ground under a bill overwhelmingly approved by state senators. The bi...
Add one more state to the growing list in the daily fantasy sports regulation melee.
Currently, Colorado has no specific restrictions regarding fantasy sports and the state’s top lawmakers are concerned with...
After a seemingly miraculous rise to becoming the world's largest online gambling company, Amaya's CEO, David Baazov is taking a leave of absence after insider trading charges were leveled against him. Rafi Ash...
After the recent filing of regulations in regards to daily fantasy sports betting by the Attorney General of Massachusetts, Maura Healey, DFS operator DraftKings has responded. The company announced they are pl...
States are making it clear to the fantasy sports industry; if you want to play in our state you have to pay the price. Intended to lend to the legality of the games, new legislation may actually prevent smaller...