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According to recently released disclosure forms, Visa USA Inc., the US-based division of Visa Inc. spent almost $2.7 million in the first six months of 2007 lobbying the federal government, while New York–based MasterCard Inc. spent roughly $880,000 in the same ...

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Ireland’s Rugby World Cup campaign is not proceeding as its supporters may have liked, but the Emerald Isle’s national squad is not the only green team who has not lived up to expectations.

Paddy Power, an Irish Bookmaker, entered into an agreement to sponsor the ...

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For the second time in a year the Bush administration has asked US District Judge Mary Cooper to throw out a legal challenge by the online gaming industry of its 2006 gambling law. Papers filed in Newark’s Federal Court by the Justice Department claim that the online gambling industry has no ...

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Belgian’s national Gaming Commission has filed a complaint against gambling giant Unibet for the site’s bet on which date a new government will be formed.

Unibet risks a fine of 100,000 EUR as well as a suspension ranging from 6 months to 5 years. Its lawyers however point out ...

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An official report on gambling trends in the U.K. commissioned by the Gambling Commission, has revealed that the number of online bettors has skyrocketed to 3.5 Million people who regularly gamble online, a six fold increase in just five years.

Around seven percent of those, or ...

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With September now here, Nevada bookmakers are clamoring to get the grand prize of gaming enthusiasts: the hordes of American football fans.

According to recent numbers, last year sports books made over $84M in profits, an astounding 104% increase from the previous year. ...

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In a modest victory for the privately owned gaming industry, the European Union’s top court ruled on Thursday that Italy was wrong to renew 329 horse racing book licenses without opening up the bid to public tender, Retuers reports.

Before 200, Italy decided to increase the ...

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Yoshiaki Takahashi, 43, of Hanamigawa-ku, Chiba, has been arrested for allegedly accepting kickbacks from a Kyoto internet café owner, with the funds coming from customers who gambled on the casino site Takahashi worked for.

“I didn’t know the money was part of proceeds from ...

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It seems the stereotype may not hold true – except for bookmaker Paddy Power that is. Citing an unexpected number of favorable sporting event results, the Irish firm saw profits for the first six months of 2007 raise to over 35.4M (Eire), nearly double the 17.5M (Eire) it recorded during the ...

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