Sands and Cantor team on cross-pond online casino
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With us or against us? The announcement last week of a partnership between Las Vegas Sands, Inc., and British-based Cantor Gaming to start an online casino in the first quarter of 2007 is only adding fuel to the allegations on the part of European competitors that the Unlawful Internet Gambling Act is primarily protectionist in nature.â¦
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HOLLYWOOD, Fla. - An online casino forked over $28,000 Wednesday to the owner of a 10-year-old, partially eaten cheese sandwich thought to be embedded with the image of the Virgin Mary - and then sent the &quot;religious icon&quot; on a world tour.
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The gamers that will represent the UK at the gaming world's equivalent of the Olympics have been chosen.
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ZeTurf picks a winner at last House of Cards In a major blow to existent French gaming law, the French high court - le Cour de Cassation - ruled that the French horse racing monopolist Parimutuel Urbain (PMU) cannot prevent Malta-based ZeTurf from offering wagers over the internet on French horse races. The pdf of the decision is here.â¦
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Endless money forms the sinews of war, Cicero once said, but it may also be the dividend of peace -- especially for gamblers who can now place bets online on the person or organisation they think is going to be named the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize winner on Friday.
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Thomas G. Woolston  is trying to start an online travel site named uBid Travel. He's negotiating with hotels, brokering partnerships with airlines and making sure the site looks just right.
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Two UK gamers are about to embark on a tour as part of the most lucrative-ever global games tournament.
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AN internet gambler has scooped the UK's highest online jackpot, winning pounds 2,058,888 from his home. The man, from Birmingham, bagged the record-breaking prize while playing on slot machines on Littlewoods' Millionaires Club.  (c) 2007 Liverpool Echo.
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Richard Branson's Virgin group is sizing up opportunities in the UK gaming market.
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The European Court of Justice pushes for openness In a ruling sure to ruffle the feathers of those opposed to open and regulated gambling environments, the European Court of Justice today issued its most forceful opinion yet covering the cross border provision of gaming services. The ruling in the Placanica case, in which Italian suppliers of gambling services for British bookmaker Stanley faced criminal prosecution in Italy for operating without a license, establishes once and for all that national licensing procedures cannot be applied in a de facto discriminatory manner against foreign gaming operators.â¦
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The Ryder Cup has attracted an avalanche of betting in Britain and Ireland with one punter wagering a staggering 347,000 pounds (660,000 dollars) for a US win over Europe.
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HOLLYWOOD, Fla. - An online casino forked over $28,000 Wednesday to the owner of a 10-year-old, partially eaten cheese sandwich thought to be embedded with the image of the Virgin Mary - and then sent the "religious icon" on a world tour.
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Two casino companies in Atlantic City and the New Jersey Transit signed a contract on Thursday, finalizing train service between New York and the second-largest U.S. gambling market, a spokesman for one of the companies said.
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More than four million Britons are regular internet gamblers according to new research.
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Bond trader Cantor Fitzgerald is  combining its electronic brokerage eSpeed , which has  been a takeover target, with its BGC Partners inter-dealer  broker into a new publicly listed company in a $1.3 billion  deal.
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U.S. gaming company Las Vegas Sands Inc. wants to build six more hotels that include some casinos in an area of the southern Chinese gambling enclave of Macau it hopes to model after the Las Vegas Strip.
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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.