Illinois is the latest US state to look towards regulating online gambling in order to raise much needed cash for the state budget. A new bill will need to be treated in the current session before it can be signed into law.

Online poker will arrive to Nevada citizens in "seven to ten months", state regulators have said at a hearing yesterday. The first licenses for the new intrastate system will be issued within 30-60 days.

The launch of regulated online poker in Spain on June 1st could be marked by a new controversy over back taxes for some of the biggest operators in the country. Some operators may opt to pull out of the market altogether.

A number of large European operators have been included in an expanded blacklist of online gambling operators who continue to serve Belgian players without a proper license. Players who play on the sites could face fines of up to €25,000.

Spain's newly regulated online poker market will go live for the first time on June 1st. All sites without a valid license at that time will be required to leave the Spanish market to make room for the new license holders.

The local government in Germany's Schleswig-Holstein region has issued its first three online gambling licenses. Three companies will now be allowed to offer legal sports-betting to the region's citizens.

Parties that make up a majority coalition in Sweden are ready to ditch the current gambling monopoly and introduce a new licensing system. The overhaul will be made to protect players and collect taxes from foreign operators, the coalition says.

One of the foremost proponents of federally regulated online poker in the U.S., Representative Barney Frank, doubts new legislation will come in 2012. He does however see regulation coming in the long run.

Zynga is eager to enter the real-money online gaming market and is reported to be in talks with brick-and-mortar giant Wynn Resorts. Partnerships with UK betting operators could also be on the agenda for the social games developer.

A New Jersey Senate committee has approved a bill that will allow Atlantic City Casinos to accept wagers on online games, including online poker. If federal government does not intervene, the bill could also allow wagers from other states or even nations.

The Fraternal Order of Police, a lobby group working behind the scenes in Washington on behalf of more than 300,000 law-enforcement officers, has issued an official letter of support of regulated online poker in the United States.

Utah has become the first U.S. state to take actions against the possibility of federal online gambling regulation. Lawmakers last week signed a new bill that prohibits all types of online gambling in the state, now and in the future.

Nevada regulators have reached another milestone in the process of preparing the state for intrastate online poker. New measures that outsource testing of software and equipment were approved this week.

The European Commission has criticized a proposal for new online gambling legislation in Germany. The Commission believes that key restrictions written into the law may not be justifiable.

Offshore online gambling companies who offer their services to UK citizens will soon have to pay their taxes to the British government. An overhaul of the current taxation system is set to take place in 2014.

A set of bills that would allow intrastate online gambling in Hawaii have failed and will now be scrapped. The failure means that Hawaii will remain one of two states in the U.S. without any form of legal gambling.

Bodog has begun the process of informing its Spanish players that they can no longer use the network's real-money services. All accounts will be closed and players will be requested to cash out.

Bulgarian lawmakers have on Thursday adopted a new law to regulate online gambling in the country for the first time. The bill outlines a licensing system, as it has been seen in other European countries.

Iowa's aspirations to offer legal intrastate online poker moved closer to becoming reality on Tuesday night after the proposed legislation was approved by the State Senate. The bill will now move on to the House.

Bwin.party CEO Jim Ryan has said that he has no doubt regulation will eventually come to the American online poker market. The only questions are in what form it will arrive and when it will happen, Ryan said.

Zynga as announced the launch of a new separate gaming platform, set to work independently from Facebook. The company at the same time hints that real-money gambling may be imminent.

Republican Representative in Iowa Dan Huseman has claimed that Iowa's recently introduced online poker bill will not pass and become law. 70% of Iowans oppose the initiative, Huseman says.

The seizure of the Bodog.com domain seems to have been just an early warning of more serious charges against Bodog founder Calvin Ayre. Ayre was indicted today alongside three other men for illegal gambling activities and money laundering.

Californian lawmakers have made another push for legalizing online gambling within state borders. A new online gambling bill was introduced this weekend, tailored at combating the Golden State's bleeding state budgets.