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The Stop Gambling Foundation along with its network of partners and supporters, have handed in a petition to the Office of the Election Commission of Thailand (ECT), calling for a referendum to stop the legalization of casino resorts in the country. The foundation, led by Secretary-General Thanakorn Khomkrit, arrived with a convoy of riders on Thursday (June 12) to deliver 53,900 signatures...
The police in Greater Noida, India, along with a SWAT team, have busted an international cricket betting racket. Eight people have been arrested so far in connection with the case. It all came to light when a kidnapping was reported through the emergency number 112, from Alwar.
As it turns out, the accused were tied to a network that stretches all the way to Thailand and Dubai. According to the...
An Alabama citizen is the latest to put the boot to sweepstakes casinos, as they are now suing High 5 Entertainment. The operator is being accused of running an illegal sweepstakes casino in the state under a statewide class action complaint.
Filed by Michael Sumerel, it aims to recoup the losses from the pseudo gambling platform for Alabama residents. Alabama is one of the states in the US...
Predictions market Kalshi and Flutter Entertainment’s FanDuel have reportedly been in conversation about a potential partnership. The two companies would leverage their own unique powers within the gambling world to expand the brands further in the US.
In recent months, prediction markets like Polymarket and Kalshi have exploded onto the scene. They allow gamblers to bet on just about anything...
Australia’s biggest casino group, Crown Resorts, has been told it won’t be allowed to run poker machines in New South Wales (NSW), as the fallout continues from a scathing report into one of the main pokies regulators.
On Friday (June 13), NSW Premier Chris Minns made it clear that there won’t be any new laws to let Crown’s Sydney casino install pokies.
This comes after reports surfaced that the...
It's hard to pay attention to the business of journalism without hearing about data journalism or data-driven journalism. But despite all the discussion of the topic, there's precious little documentation to guide practicing and future journalists in becoming proficient in it. The Data Journalism Handbook aims to fix that, albeit at a high...
Easily the largest contributors to ReadWriteWeb's overall traffic on any given day include technology news aggregation services, one of them being Techmeme. It's a service that pulls interesting headlines from amid the ever-flowing sea of content, and compiles them into an amalgamated front page of what's happening; it's directed toward a specific audience, which Techmeme hopes includes you. It...
A scrappy company to help journalists dig into Big Data has come into its own in the past year, including the requisite all-night hacking codeathon this week at the Investigative Reporters and Editors Computer-Assisted Reporting Conference in St. Louis. The company is called ScraperWiki.com and was started by Julian Todd and Aidan McGuire, two U.K.-based analysts who have been long involved in...
WordPress has released version 2.0 of its Android app for mobile blogging, and as a WordPress for iOS user, I am jealous. The new app launches with a screen that covers just about every first action a mobile blogger needs. It's arranged in correct order of priority, and it uses a big, easily tappable grid of buttons with an "action bar" over the top to handle the rest.
Other additions are...
News and activity feeds are more alive today than ever before, even as engagement with their simplest format, Really Simple Syndication (RSS), appears to be waning. What were the Top 10 Most Awesome RSS...