The effort to roll back an Internet gambling ban has reached the Senate, with a bill by Sen. Robert Menendez that calls for licensing and regulating online poker and other *games of skill* instead of outlawing them. Menendez -Â a New Jersey Democrat, intends to introduce the bill today, according to the Poker Players Alliance, which […]
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Internet gambling in Kentucky will be front and center in a Franklin Circuit Courtroom Tuesday as the Kentucky Justice and Public Safety Cabinet will argue for blocking access to illegal online gaming sites. Gov. Steve Beshear wants to block 141 gambling websites calling them illegal and unregulated. Monday, some of the people who represent those […]
Castle Technologies, Inc. (Pink Sheets:CSTL) announced that the recent introduction of House Resolution 6870, the Payments System Protection Act of 2008, would have a profound positive effect on the Company’s operations if the bill becomes a law. The bill was recently passed by the House Financial Services Committee and will be sent to Congress in […]
Google will make a major turn by lifting restrictions on paid search gambling terms in the UK. The search giant is to allow all licensed UK gambling and gaming companies to run AdWords campaigns for the first time since June 2007. Gambling and gaming companies within the European Economic Area licensed by their relevant authorities […]
Barack Obama took a jab at John McCain on Monday over a report that the Republican played high-stakes rounds at a craps table at a Connecticut casino with a lobbyist for the Mashantucket Pequot tribe. Mr. McCain was a chairman of the Senate Indian Affairs Committee, which has influence over laws that govern Native American […]
A Franklin County Circuit Court Judge has granted a one week continuance in the Kentucky internet gambling domains case to enable lawyers on both sides to file written arguments with the court. The case will now be heard on Tuesday 7th October. More than twenty lawyers representing the domain owners were present at the hearing […]
Tim Donaghy is in prison – and David Stern doesn’t want anyone else in the NBA to get in trouble because of gambling…… So Stern responded to a report on NBA referees Thursday by vowing to build the *most effective possible system* to monitor illegal activity and preserve the game’s integrity. *The best we can do […]
While certain sectors of the U.S. continue to fight fiercely against regulation of online gambling, Ireland is looking to use Internet casino regulation as a means to provide jobs and spur the economy. The Gaming and Leisure Association of Ireland has petitioned the government to make public and regulate casinos in the country – and to […]
Casino companies are largely backing Republican John McCain in the presidential election, though Democrat Barack Obama has some support within the gambling industry. Individuals with ties to casinos have donated more than $260,000 to McCain’s campaign through September, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, a nonpartisan group that tracks presidential fundraising. The group says […]
CryptoLogic software developer – is in talks with PartyGaming to pool their poker businesses to save costs as both companies fight to maintain their positions in the the online gambling industry. After William Hill announced that it was abandoning CryptoLogic as its software provider of poker and casino for rival Playtech, Dublin-based CryptoLogic sought to soften the […]