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 [...]

US Democrat Barney Frank is considering a bill to repeal last year’s anti-gambling legislation according to a spokesperson for the congressman, who chairs the House of Representatives Financial Services Committee.
Frank’s office confirmed that he was considering legislation, but added he had not drafted thebill and had no timetable for legislation.
According to the UK’s Financial Times [...]

Pacific Conference to Bridge the Great Divide
The River City Group is to host its fifth annual conference aimed at bringing iGaming companies together to diminish the cultural gap between the East and West and capture their most sought after market: Asia.
Located in the luxury Mandarin Oriental Hotel in Macau on February 26-27, the Pacific Congress [...]

Online casino and poker gaming group 888 is close to signing deals with some of Europe’s bigger mobile phone operators to offer their customers gambling over their handsets, a source close to the company said on Thursday. “Some of the European mobile operators are looking to incorporate 888 mobile into their offering,” the source told [...]