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Indepth features and anaylsis on issues that affect our industry - These features can be directly related to iGaming but also to other online sectors which we can learn from.

  • Mergers and Acquisitions – Why So Many, Why Now?

    Gaming law expert, I Nelson Rose, examines the recent surge in M&A activity in the online gaming industry and how this trend will continue apace in the coming months.

     

    Mar / Apr 2010

  • Online Gaming in a Post General Election Britain

    The same question is readily being applied to every conceivable facet of British industry and policy ahead of one of the most anticipated general elections in recent times: how will things change under a Conservative government? Will things change at all? The political and ‘moral’ lines that once clearly defined, and therefore, polarised the UK’s left and right have become so blurred as to create a middle ground from where real change is proving a challenge to deliver. But, with an expected change in government come the day of the 2010 General Election, where does gaming sit in the priorities of any new premiership – and what happens if Gordon Brown, or Labour at least, secures another term in office?...See More...

    Jan / Feb 2010

  • Menendez’s Internet Poker Bill

    In September 2008, Senator Robert Menendez (D.-NJ) introduced his first proposal to legalize Internet poker, S.3616. It didn’t go anywhere, not even getting a single co-sponsor. Still, this was probably the fi rst time a bill had ever been introduced in the US Senate for the purpose of legalizing, rather than prohibiting, online games like poker. The fact that the Senator was from a state like New Jersey, with a politically powerful land-
    based casino industry, made the action politically significant.

    Sep / Oct 2009

  • Internet Gaming; Coming back to the US?

    There is movement on both the federal and state levels to legalize, regulate, and, of course, tax Internet gaming in the United States. But things are not always what they seem…

    Jul / Aug 2009

  • PartyGaming

    PartyGaming and the US Settlement

    PartyGaming has made the first move to appease the US authorities by agreeing a non-prosecution settlement with the US DoJ for $105m. Naturally, this move has sparked debate within the industry as to its ramifications, and here, iGaming Business plays host to just some of the informed commentary that this news has evoked.

    May / Jun 2009

  • Winning with T&Cs

    Winning with T&Cs

    Professor I Nelson Rose examines the importance of Terms and Conditions, as highlighted recently by PartyGaming’s $600 million class action in the US.

    Mar / Apr 2009

  • Looking Back, and Forward

    UIGEA is a Bush Administration legacy that still haunts the online gaming industry today, but have efforts in 2009 gone any way to making clear our understanding of the market’s future? Leading gaming expert Professor I Nelson Rose, surveys a year that the US market had entered in the highest of optimism against its common enemy, and has exited with a plausible common champion.

    Nov / Dec 2009