Harrah's, the largest gambling company in the world, has linked up with tribes in Arizona and California.
Mr Hornby, who took over the running of HBOS in 2006, has been the chief executive of gambling company Coral since 2011.
Party, is already the biggest publicly-traded online gambling company in the world.
The best performer in Hong Kong was gambling company Sands China, which climbed 2.4%, after Macau's government gave it a three-year extension to complete a key project in the gambling hub.
Party Digital Entertainment, the Gibraltar online gambling company.
The troubled Internet gambling company is trying desperately to exonerate itself from U.S. federal charges that have included racketeering, tax evasion and fraud, following the arrest of its former Chief Executive David Carruthers last month.
Mitch Garber, who heads the interactive-entertainment division of Harrah's, the world's largest gambling company, believes that the trend towards legalisation across Europe will ultimately reach America and will eventually lead to a convergence between bricks-and-mortar and online businesses.
Lanni, one of the canniest financial minds in Vegas and steward of the number two gambling company in the world, will break ground later this year on the biggest and most ambitiously different property Sin City has ever seen: CityCenter.
It was a difficult spectacle to watch for the folks at PartyGaming, which was the biggest online gambling company in the world thanks to its domination of the U.S. online poker market until Congress passed the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act in 2006.
He moved to Antigua specifically to get away from the U.S. anti-gambling laws, created the World Sports Exchange, which became a very successful company selling gambling services to Americans, primarily.
And that kind of got to his head and made him think that he could help run the company by gambling.
It turns out that shortly after he was promoted to VP, Bob Jr. borrowed some money from the company to cover gambling losses, but soon repaid it.
Well, I think starting a company, and gambling everything I have on the bet that I can make this work (and change the world in the process) is definitely a challenge.
Zynga COO Jonathan Schappert said that the company is exploring the online gambling.
The harsh truth is that investing in a small or even medium sized biotech company is a lot like gambling in Las Vegas.
Pincus got Zynga to announce yesterday that the company had applied for a preliminary finding of suitability from the Nevada Gaming Control Board to promote the idea that the company might find salvation in online gambling.
The company could feasibly enter markets where online gambling is already legal and regulated.
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Following a federal investigation, Second Life's parent company, Linden Lab, banned all gambling in the virtual world--a major source of its business.
Several people expert in Nevada gambling regulations said they didn't believe a company is generally at risk as long as it is doing due diligence on potential problems and turning over information to authorities.
Two indictments filed by the U.S. Attorney in Baltimore, Rod Rosentein, were unsealed on Monday that charged a Canadian company, ThrillX Systems, and a Cyprus company, K23 Group, with operating illegal gambling businesses and money laundering.
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Following an FBI investigation, Linden Labs has banned all forms of gambling from Second Life, according to a posting on the company's blog.
The dispute centers on a private company called Lanceford, which had earlier been wholly owned by the gambling tycoon.
Critics of Zynga might be inclined to believe that the company will use the same exploitation and copycat tactics to bolster its online gambling business.
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The company on Tuesday touted seven new three-year deals with sponsors, including gambling-website operator Bwin.
The Alderney Gambling Control Commission on Thursday revoked its gambling licenses held by Full Tilt Poker, potentially complicating any deal for the faltering online poker company that could repay poker players whose funds on deposit at Full Tilt have evaporated.
That seems to be the question investors were looking to answer on Thursday as the embattled social gaming company saw its stock surge on news that it took the first steps to file for a gambling license in Nevada.
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