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 [...]

The European Commission has criticised the Federal German states on all aspects of its draft State Treaty on gaming, highlighting its compatibility with European Community law. The Commission argued that key provisions of the scheduled State Treaty were being disproportionate and incompatible with the EC Treaty.
These provisions include restrictions on the free movement of capital, [...]

The European Free Trade Association court ruled that Norway could be in breach of European internal-market rules by blocking UK bookmaker Ladbrokes from setting up gambling operations.
The final decision will rest with an Oslo court, but EFTA’s decision, which ruled that the Norwegian government had completely denied private operators access to the market and therefore [...]

A bill regulating state asset management, which could lead to the privatisation of Hungary’s state-owned lottery company Szerencsejáték, is going before the Hungarian parliament today.

This has caused experts to warn that the government may not be able to find the support it needs to win a majority vote on the sale of the gaming company if the bill passes.

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 [...]

The South African National Lotteries Board has suspended the award of a seven year contract seven-year exclusive national lottery contract pending a review after it said that winner Gidani and rival bidder Uthingo had not revealed sufficient information about their shareholders at the time of the tender.

Tessa Jowell, English Culture Secretary, is due to announce the revised cost of the 2012 London Olympics this week, which reports are suggesting could top £9 billion. The secretary will admit that costs have ’spiralled out of control’, to nearly four times the original budget £2.4 billion, and will face calls from opposition MPs to cap the bill at £5 billion.

Welsh charities and sports bodies could lose up to £36 million if the UK government decides to divert national lottery funds to pay for the 2012 London Olympics according to Welsh culture minister Alun Pugh. In a letter to Tessa Jowell, Pugh outlines concerns from a lottery body and a group working with voluntary organisations, who warn that a loss of funding would see a number of projects “go to the wall”

Internet Gambling Prohibition and Enforcement Act of 2006, signed into law by President George W. Bush last Friday, October 13, 2006, will not prohibit but rather enhances live remote casino table game provider Kenilworth Systems Corporation’s Roulabette(TM) System.
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Herbert Lindo stated: “Internet gambling was always outlawed in the U.S. Las Vegas [...]

POWERBALL, July 9 /PRNewswire/ — The Powerball jackpot is getting bigger and bigger. No one hit the jackpot Saturday, but 526,707 players across the nation won a total of more than $4.8 million in prizes in America’s favorite Game.
Because no one correctly matched all six numbers in Saturday’s drawing the jackpot will grow to an [...]