Congress has been ceding power to the executive branch for more than two decades. In the 2008 presidential election, President George W. Bush was often criticized by then-candidate Barack Obama for his executive overreaches. Candidate Obama even promised to "reverse" the Bush Administration's expansion of executive authority in 2007. However, no president in modern history has done more to circumvent Congress and rewrite legislation than President Obama has.
While the Obama Administration's rewriting of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) to delay timeframes may immediately come to mind, perhaps the most blatant example of executive branch overreach is the Justice Department's decision to rewrite more than 50 years of consistent interpretation of the Wire Act of 1961 to allow revenue-seeking state governments to go into the online gambling business...
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Looking at the combined iOS and Android ecosystem, the Q213 Portable Gaming Spotlight found that games represented 40 percent of app downloads across platforms and represented 70 percent of app revenue in both the App Store and Google Play...
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Las Vegas gambling mogul Steve Wynn’s Wynn Interactive LLC becomes the latest outfit hoping to grab a piece of the action when Internet gambling is scheduled to begin Nov. 26 on Atlantic City slot machines and table games.
Dozens of companies have filed applications with the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement for Internet gambling licenses. The division has declined to name them until they are approved and added to a list of active vendors, but several online gambling companies have already announced their partnerships with Atlantic City casinos...
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Big Fish is one of the largest casual game companies in the world, employing 524 people in Seattle and 670 globally and generating annual sales of about $200 million. But facing intense competition from mobile and social games it’s had to evolve far beyond the packaged and downloadable games that it began publishing in 2002. Over the past two years it has shuffled its leadership, restoring Thelen as chief executive, and invested heavily in online services, mobile titles and casino games.
Thelen said the company is restructuring to sharpen its focus on the most promising opportunities and dropping efforts that haven’t panned out. Notably the company is ending a cloud subscription gaming business that launched last year with high expectations...
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Ultimate Gaming intends to launch its New Jersey online casino by the end of 2013, the company's co-founder Tom Breitling said during an interview last Wednesday with Bloomberg Television's Street Smart program...
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One cannot fault California state Sen. Lou Correa, D-Santa Ana, for trying as he introduced the umpteenth reincarnation of an intrastate online poker bill.
Previous attempts of legalizing Web poker in the state have failed due to opposition from California’s powerful tribal casinos...
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