Bet 365 and Online-Casinos.com – The online gambling industry employs thousands of people around the world and contributes an enormous amount of money to the economies of several countries. The jobs associated with internet gambling are usually high paying technology positions that require education and experience. In places such as Stoke-on-Trent which lies in the west midlands area of England the betting industry firm has a solid foundation. A recent announcement that bet365 a private online gambling company since 2000 will add six hundred new positions to its ranks in the next ten years has been met with instant kudos….

iGaming Business – Online casino and sportsbook operator BetVictor has announced a three-year extension to its agreement with live dealer specialist Evolution Gaming in a move that will be followed up by a number of product launches through the BetVictor Live Casino. Under the deal, Evolution’s enhanced mobile Live Casino offering will now be made available to BetVictor customers on various smartphone and tablet devices. The BetVictor Live Casino will also feature Evolution’s Immersive Roulette, which uses multiple HD cameras to allow online players to follow every moment of the ball in close-up, as well as view the game result…

NJ.com – The game clock is running out on New Jersey’s attempt to legalize sports betting at casinos and horse racing tracks — something supporters say could save those struggling industries and generate hundreds of millions of tax dollars for the state. After losing three times in federal court to the NCAA and the nation’s professional sports leagues, Gov. Chris Christie will now try his luck at the U.S. Supreme Court. The state has until mid-February to file an appeal to the nation’s highest court, which the governor says is “the only option left.” “Yeah, you know, I’m not going…

iGaming Business – Police in the UK are continuing to question six people after a professional footballer allegedly told an undercover reporter that he was involved in spot-fixing during matches. The Sun on Sunday newspaper secretly filmed former Nigeria international Sam Sodje apparently describing how he punched an opposing player in order to get a red card in exchange for £70,000 (€83,569/$114,706) during a League One match in February of this year. It then emerged this (Monday) morning that DJ Campbell, a striker who plays for second-tier Championship club Blackburn Rovers, had been arrested in relation to spot-fixing allegations. Sodje,…

London South East – Brussels (Alliance News) – A European-led initiative to tackle illegal sports betting is nearing completion, the organization behind it said on Thursday, while a sports fraud watchdog warned of the growing dimensions of match-fixing. Football match-fixing has hit the headlines in recent months, with Singaporean authorities arresting 14 people suspected of global involvement in the practice in September. In February, football’s world governing body FIFA extended sanctions on 58 people in China. The convention, being drafted by the Council of Europe, should make it easier to prosecute match-fixing offenders and will promote cooperation and the exchange…

Independent.ie – The multiple arrests in Britain for football match-fixing in the past week, including one former Premier League player and two so-called international football “fixers” from Singapore, prompts the question as to how prepared Ireland is to face what many now regard as the number one integrity threat to sport. The arrests were made in the wake of a sting by journalists from the Daily Telegraph, to whom an international fixer of games boasted about how easy it was to approach non-league footballers and officials to rig games for money and, benefiting from this inside information, how bets could…