The Russian government has no intention of moderating its draconian ruling that come July 1st 2009 all land gambling venues will be moved out of main cities and confined to four pre-identified areas in the country. President Dmitry Medvedev emphasised at a meeting with the chief of the Federal Tax Service, Mikhail Mokretsov, that the [...]
PartyGaming and 888.com are just a couple of the licensed and regulated online gambling companies that had to pull out of the US market after the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act was put in place back in 2006. The plan will call for licensed and regulated companies, such as PartyGaming and 888.com to be exempt [...]
In the state of Pennsylvania, Supreme Court voted to remove language from a gaming law that would have banned the contributions. The high court voted 5-1 in favor of removing the language out of the gaming bill and the justices claimed that the ban violates freedom of expression. The state of Pennsylvania had been trying [...]
The state education system continues to make budget cuts that are costing teachers their jobs and possibly costing children hours in school. In Broward County, the school system is considering dropping the school week to four days to help balance the budget. Students would go to school from Monday through Thursday, and have Friday, Saturday, [...]
Denmark’s government took steps to deregulate the country’s gambling market, releasing plans to liberalize the sector. Officials from government said they already have the support of many members and expect the bill to pass. In an interview with the Copenhagen Post, Danske Spil representatives said they welcome the second plan, which would see the monopoly’s [...]
Officials from Antigua and Barbuda announced that they are stepping up efforts to monitor online gaming operators licensed by the Caribbean nation. Antigua and Barbuda’s Directorate of Offshore Gaming, which oversees the Antigua eGaming Authority, said it plans to maintain the country’s white-list status by implementing a state-of-the-art monitoring program leveraging information systems and industry-specific [...]
Las Vegas Sands announced that the appointment of Jason Ader to its board of directors. Ader is the CEO of Hayground Cove Asset Management, an investment management firm he founded in 2003. Prior to founding that company, Ader was a senior managing director at Bear Stearns & Co. He has been ranked on Institutional Investor’s [...]
Law enforcement officials will tell people that the reason they go after illegal gambling activity is because they are trying to uphold the law. Law enforcement agencies, prosecutors, and a government attorney will split over $2 million that was seized while investigation former Teamster President John L. Neal. Observer Franklin Grover said: “While more violent [...]
The smaller companies gambling sites, often with good quality offers themselves are being dominated. They are shut down because of the big companies taking all their gamblers and than get acquired and add to the big company that has even more profits and it goes on like that. In the past few years have shown [...]
The Government of Antigua and Barbuda has recently asked United States officials to allow online casino operators based in their country to travel in and out of the U.S. freely. This plea comes in the wake of several arrests of online casino operators over the past several months. These arrests, combined with the passing of [...]
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