John Anderson, the former executive of 888 Holdings, has been summoned by the French authorities, who wish to interview him with reference to internet gambling.

It will pain lottery punters around the world, but it is now official; a $3.5 million Lotto ticket sold on 14th February 2006 has gone unclaimed with the year-long deadline now passed.

According to the Blackpool Gazette the city’s continued campaign for a super-casino has received backing from a most unexpected source: Manchester.

Shares in online gaming companies listed on the London Stock Exchange rose by up to 20 percent this week as rumours spread of a possible looming challenge to the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA) from a US Congressman.

Critical talks with the UK’s Culture Secretary Tessa Jowell are due to take place today in a bid to save Blackpool's casino dream, according to a report by the Blackpool Gazette.

For the first time since 1978, when Atlantic City embraced casino gambling to become the East coast’s version of Las Vegas, there is a real possibility that annual revenue from the city’s casinos could be on the decline.

NETeller plc has had to let a number of its Canadian and UK employees go as its business continues to suffer following the arrest of its two former executive directors.

888 Holdings, the company behind the 888.com casino and PacificPoker.com, yesterday announced record profits in its non-US facing operations, following the example of PartyGaming Plc which has also seen vast improvements in its non-US business.

A $384 million hotel-casino shaped like a giant lotus flower opened in Macau on Sunday as Stanley Ho, Macau’s gambling kingpin attempted to reassert his influence over a resort he once controlled almost completely.

Mitch Garber, chief executive of PartyGaming Plc., the company behind PartyPoker.com, was in an optimistic mood recently as he predicted the company’s annual report would exceed expectations.

The e-wallet group NETeller yesterday confirmed that the US authorities have seized almost $55 million in funds belonging to its US based customers.

Officials from the FBI have frozen an unspecified number of US NETeller accounts for use in evidence against the company, according to a report by The Guardian.

The Malaysian billionaire Tan Sri Quek Leng Chan has secured 25 of the 89 casino licenses awarded over the last two years, according to the UK publication “The Business”.

PartyGaming, the former giants of the online gaming market, appear to have made a spectacular comeback over the last few months, despite remaining exiled from the US gambling industry.

A failure to comply with a court order to appear in a US court has led to the company being held in contempt of court.

According to the UK’s Guardian newspaper the European Union may be preparing to mount a challenge to the US’s restricitve laws on online gaming, specifically the UIGEA.

Great Yarmouth, on the coast of East Anglia, hit a jackpot worth £40 million a year earlier this week when it was announced that the seaside resort has won a license to build one of eight regional casinos across the country.