The state of New Jersey filed briefs with the U.S. Supreme Court earlier this week, over the legality of sports betting. New Jersey stated that the federal ban on sports betting is illegal, as it exceeds the authority of Congress; hence it is “manifestly unconstitutional.”

Ladbrokes Coral Group, a British betting company, has announced on Thursday a 7 percent rise in its profits from the first half of its operation, due to high online trading.

A father and son pleaded guilty in San Diego federal court on Tuesday for allegedly running an illegal sports betting ring out of the Lucky Lady Casino and card room on El Cajon Boulevard.

SportPesa, an Africa based sports betting company, declared its plans to launch its first UK casino portal along with the fully updated version of its complete website.

UK Gambling Commission has revealed Gambling Behaviour in Great Britainsurvey, which the problem gambling is on the rise in the country and has increased by 0.2%.

Floyd Mayweather reportedly went to the M Resort in Las Vegas to attempt to place a bet of $400,000 on the fight ending in under 9.5 rounds. The line for the bet was 2 to 1 and would have doubled his win. Mayweather was however denied as the sports book was concerned about the legality of the bet, whether he could bet on himself on anything else apart from the straight win.

New Jersey has become the 16th state to legalise paid entry fantasy sports after Governor Chris Christie signed the Fantasy Sports Bill this week. The Senate approved S-1982/A-3532 legalisation; it was only on Thursday the law was signed formally.

Mybet Group, Sports betting Operator from Europe, is planning to expand its B2B services through a new partner. The deal comes in a bid to open its partner’s first branch of betting shops in the Austrian market.

As an effort to expand its market to Latin America and Africa, BtoBet has signed a deal to provides its innovations to BetGames.tv. BtoBet, Malta-based gaming and sportsbetting platform provider under the agreement would offer streamed games and lottery, for players living in the region of Africa and Latin America.

FSB technology has signed a deal with Irish entrepreneur, Sean Quinn to provide a new sports betting platform for Quinn’s latest business venture QuinnBet.

iSport Genius, a sports data provider, has signed a deal with Sportsbet, an Australian online sportsbetting market leader. Under the deal, Sportsbet will install a program that informs and educates customers of their choice of bets.

LeoVegas, the Nordic countries focused iGaming company has reported an astounding 60% increase year-on-year in its revenue for the second quarter of 2017. The company has reported an income of the three months of the second quarter ending up to June 30th of €49.7m, from the previous revenue of €31m as compared in the same period last year.

Ladbrokes have signed a sponsorship deal with Leicester City FC, former Premier League champion. The deal will see Ladbrokes, UK and Ireland betting giant, become the official UK and Ireland betting partner for the football season of 2017/18.

The $3 billion daily fantasy sports industry is set to return after a year of exiting quietly, following the orders of Delaware Attorney General Matt Denn, as the daily fantasy sports violated the Delaware law that required the state to monitor all kinds of gambling. Despite the retaliations, the operators had to exit their services from the states.

In a recent post, Stacy Papadopoulos, AGA’s senior VP of industry laid emphasis once again on how inefficient PASPA is, and it is time for a change.

A man is charged with one count of illegal gambling business and one count of money laundering in Arkansas. The man, Robert Enos Rogers, 72, has been operating sports betting business from his home since January 1, 2007. The business made around $2,000 a day and had five people involved in it by the February of this year.

TopBetta has recently got an operational licence for its TopBetta Pty and the Global Tote subsidiaries in the US. The Global tote is a channel based island of Alderney. This license will allow the US licensed wagering operators to have access to global pools provided by the Global Tote.

Seán Quinn has launched, QuinnBet, a new online sports betting company. It is Quinn’s first business venture since the loss of his previous building materials, packaging and insurance empire.

The German Football Association (DFB), the governing body of football in Germany has confirmed its partnership with the German sports betting provider, Oddset. The deal is set to be valid until the end of 2018.

The American Gaming Association gave assurance to Nevada that the demand of sports betting services in the state would not be affected by the legalisation of the sports betting across the country.