Gambling advertising faces a new crackdown on the UK arm of the world’s biggest social networking site. Facebook UK said yesterday it would be taking steps to remove all forms of gambling advertising including online casino, bingo, sportsbook and poker ads. Industry insiders fear it could eventually lead to a host of facebook pages belonging […]

Britain’s real life Spooks have been hitting the world’s online casinos and poker rooms to track down terrorists, it has been claimed. MI5 is targeting Internet gambling websites in a bid to trap the paymasters of al-Qaeda and other shady organisations who may be using them to launder money. The fear is the secret cash […]

A company which supplied 3D poker software to one of Britain’s biggest online bookies has been snapped up by Microgaming. Playwize plc — whose biggest customer was Ladbrokes — collapsed last month under a mountain of debt with the loss of all jobs. The new deal means Microgaming now owns rights to Playwize’s 3D software, […]