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Two of the biggest European operators of Internet betting sites, PartyGaming and Bwin Interactive Entertainment, said Thursday that they planned to merge, forming the world’s largest publicly traded online gambling company. The deal comes at a time when a number of governments both in Europe and the United States are relaxing the rules on online [...]

A senior Democratic lawmaker will push legislation this year to repeal a U.S. ban on Internet gambling that has hurt trade ties with the European Union, a congressional aide said. “The bill introduction should happen in the next month,” a spokesman for House of Representatives Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank said. On Thursday, Reuters [...]

It’S business as usual for Manx-based e-gaming businesses – despite dramatic developments in the States which have seen one of the founders of online poker pleading guilty to a charge relating to illegal web betting. Anurag Dikshit, the former director of Gibraltar-based PartyGaming, could face a maximum two years behind bars after admitting one count [...]

U.S. poker players have anted up for another high-stakes game — lobbying. Trying to overturn a 2006 U.S. ban on online poker, gamblers have started a lobbying group, established a political action committee, and promoted their effort to politicians by holding poker tournaments at the Republican and Democratic nominating conventions. “Up until this point, the [...]

Shareholders in Vanguard funds sued the Vanguard Group Inc on Friday, accusing fund managers of investing their money in illegal gambling businesses before the government cracked down on them in 2006. The lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Manhattan said “these unlawful investments suffered significant losses when the government began arresting principals of the [...]