CryptoLogic, a leading e-gaming software developer and supplier catering to the online casino, poker and bingo market, has applied to de-list its shares from the Toronto Stock Exchange, the NASDAQ, and the Official List of the UK Listing Authority. It will also cancel trading in its shares on the London Stock Exchange’s EEA Regulated Market.

Finally, someone from the Congress steps up to the plate and files a bill to repudiate Bush and the Republicans’ stupid law - the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA).
Just six months after President Bush signed a law outlawing online gambling, a key Democratic politician has proposed lifting the ban.
Rep. Barney Frank, a Democrat from [...]

The CEO of Hungary’s state gambling company, Gábor Székely, has announced a public bid for the acquisition of information technology equipment to enable the expansion of his company’s online gambling services.
The implementation of some of the games will take 18 months, due to lengthy legal procedures, he commented.
Szerencsejáték Zrt is the biggest provider of gambling [...]

Germany’s Christian Democratic Union and the Christian Social Union have agreed to propose abolishing the country’s state monopoly on sports betting and to allow the lottery lotto market to continue unchanged under the terms of the 2004 State Treaty.
The Union said that the liberalisation of sports betting should also be accompanied by the levying of [...]

Ladbrokes bookmaker said that it had ‘amicably’ discontinued takeover talks with 888 Holdings, causing the online gaming firm’ shares to fall eight per cent. 888’s board issued a statement saying that it remained confident of the prospects of the group, adding that it would release its preliminary results for 2006 at the end of April.
Talks [...]

Prime Minister Tony Blair called Manchester’s selection as a destination for the UK’s first super-casino a “pity”, adding that it was a justified decision, albeit a disappointing one as it was at the expense of Blackpool’s regeneration plans.

A new report on video game players’ habits and game effects has found that the vast majority of gamers reject the notion that video games encourage people to be violent in real life or that they have become desensitized to violent acts. The paper was published by the British Board of Film Classification.

Tuesday April 17 2007
ANTIGUA SUN
Director-General of the WTO, Pascal Lamy, speaking to a closed session of a meeting with Caricom Ministers of Trade last week, observed that the preservation of the rules-based multilateral trading system on which the WTO is based, would ensure that, over time, the US would move to implement the rulings and [...]

mid the recent hullabaloo over the United States’ trade agreement with South Korea, the unveiling of the Democrats’ plans for trade policy, and new legal cases on intellectual property rights and countervailing duties on goods from China, another important development in U.S. trade policy has gone largely unnoticed. On March 30, a World Trade Organization [...]

US congressman Barney Frank said that he would start pushing to lift the US ban on online gambling within the next few weeks, but warned that it was too early to make any definite moves to lift restrictions ruled illegal by the World Trade Organisation.