Microsoft, Yahoo and Google – the three largest Internet companies agreed on Wednesday to pay a combined $31.5 million to settle federal civil allegations that they had accepted ads for illegal internet gambling.
The companies said they stopped taking the ads years ago. The settlement was announced by Catherine L. Hanaway, the United States attorney for [...]

According to a report in the London Financial Times of Tuesday last week, the banking sector has warned the US Treasury that regulations proposed for the online gambling ban will be impossible to comply unless the Bush administration clarifies conflicting views on the online gambling bill.
The Financial Services Roundtable, which represents dozens of banks and [...]

Online poker room Full Tilt released a major software upgrade today, with a number of nice (albeit small) new features, including auto-rebuy options for ring games, SNG rematches, login history and more.
New features of the new Full Tilt Poker software includes the ability to set a predetermined amount (number of big blinds, as in 10 [...]

A press release was sent out by the Safe and Secure Internet Gambling Initiative (SSIGI) on Monday stating that Bristish Government officials are endorsing the United States’ regulation of online gambling. The British Government has signaled quite clearly that they would actually prefer to see the U.S. regulate online gambling rather than prohibiting the industry.
The [...]

Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA) supporters, Citizen magazine states that online gambling is out of control in the United States.
“Gambling has attained unprecedented levels of acceptance, glamorisation and popularity in the United States,” the magazine’s mission statement read.
“Once confined to the remote desert region of Nevada, gambling, in one form or another, is now [...]

Global-Player.com was launched in 1999 and is licensed in the Caribbean island of Antigua. The company originally used its own software but then switched to Boss Media earlier this year for its online casino and poker operations.
Afters eight years in online casino operation, the online gaming firm, Universal Gaming Concepts Inc. has announced the closure [...]