EU online gambling firms demand $100 bil in WTO dispute
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US thumbs nose with comical settlement offers The long-running, occasionally tragicomic trade dispute between America and tiny Antigua at the WTO over the cross-border provision of gambling services has sputtered into the settlement phase, according to CasinoGamblingWeb.â¦
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LONDON -- Sportingbet, a gambling Web site owner, said its chairman has been detained in the U.S., two months after the chief executive of BetOnSports PLC was arrested in the United States on racketeering charges.
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The WTO case was brought by the Caribbean state of Antigua and Barbuda, host to many of the online casinos whose use is illegal in the US.
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In a ruling that could open the United States to offshore Internet gambling, a World Trade Organization panel Wednesday said Washington should drop prohibitions on Americans placing bets in online casinos.
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Online bookmaker Sportingbet said its  chairman faced charges in the United States for providing  "gambling by computer," sparking fears no executive in the  $12-billion-a-year industry was safe from prosecution.
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The operator of a gambling news site on the Internet has asked a federal judge to declare that advertisements in U.S. media for foreign online casinos and sports betting outlets are protected by free-speech rights...
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The World Trade Organization slaps the United States with a token $25 million fine for its banning of online gambling, a move that could have unpleasant implications for Antigua and Barbuda, an offshore gambling haven.
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Online gambling firms faced their   biggest-ever crisis on Monday after U.S. Congress passed   legislation to end Internet gaming there, threatening jobs and   wiping 3.5 billion pounds ($6.5 billion) off company values.
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It's not every day you can say that France found itself embroiled in the middle of yet another internet gambling controversy Tuesday, after Dutch authorities arrested the CEO of Unibet - a Swedish online gambling provider with a history of run-ins with French authorities - on an outstanding French warrant.â¦
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Mission of Mandy The US now has until 14 December to come up with a trade compensation scheme for the blow its curbs on internet gambling have dealt EU firms.â¦
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US ban on web gambling forces company into red.
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The United States will provide the EU with trade concessions as part of a compensation deal over Washingtonâs refusal to lift restrictions on Internet gambling.
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The World Trade Organization confirmed that a US prohibition the cross-border gaming and gambling over the Internet was illegal under global trade rules.
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Bookies sans frontiÃ¨res German and Sweden are to be hauled over the coals by EU competition regulators for stopping online gaming firms entering their markets.â¦
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The European Commission, in a blow to European online gaming companies, on Monday struck a deal for compensation from the United States over a U.S. decision to close its gambling markets to foreign operators.
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Europe's betting industry says a German law banning online gambling breaks European Union law.
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Shares in online gambling companies listed in London lost half their value after a dramatic move by US authorities to ban gambling on the Internet.