Scientific Games Corp. said Tuesday it will retain many of the top executives of slot machine manufacturer WMS Industries following completion of the $1.5 billion buyout...(more)
The law would permit wagering on professional and college sports at racetracks and Atlantic City casinos. The U.S. Third Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia ruled the state’s attempt to legalize sports betting violates the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act, or PASPA, a 1992 federal law that restricts sports gambling...(more)
The firm claims that a survey of 1,500 gamers across the country revealed that, while mobile gamers appear more willing to part with their cash in play than their Facebook counterparts, the number of games they take on in the first place is often smaller...(more)
However it has been announced the company will instead offer their services now to the B2B market with their partnership with US operator Caesars Interactive Entertainment (CIE) being the main customer with the World Series of Poker (WSOP) platform...(more)
Caesars Entertainment Corp. (CZR), the largest owner of casinos in the U.S., will offer real-money online poker in Nevada starting Sept. 19, becoming the second operator to do so since the state legalized Web gambling in February.
The game will be marketed under Caesars’ World Series of Poker brand, the Las Vegas-based company said today at a briefing. The announcement coincides with plans to raise as much as $1.18 billion by selling stock in Caesars Acquisition Co., an entity that will own a stake in the online gambling business, as well as casinos in Las Vegas and Baltimore.
Online gambling is projected to be a $7.4 billion business in the U.S. by 2017, according to researcher H2 Gaming Capital. Nevada will represent about $400 million of that...(more)
The game will be marketed under Caesars’ World Series of Poker brand, the Las Vegas-based company said today at a briefing. The announcement coincides with plans to raise as much as $1.18 billion by selling stock in Caesars Acquisition Co., an entity that will own a stake in the online gambling business, as well as casinos in Las Vegas and Baltimore.
Online gambling is projected to be a $7.4 billion business in the U.S. by 2017, according to researcher H2 Gaming Capital. Nevada will represent about $400 million of that...(more)
The prospective deal between Google and bwin.Party would have a seismic effect regarding online gaming and poker in the United States. Google would more than likely relax their guidelines regarding online gaming and poker promotion, while bwin.Party would benefit from the deep pockets of Google to improve their current offerings (a recent PartyPoker software update was not received well by customers). It could also provide in New Jersey a powerful opponent to the prospective PokerStars/Resorts International teaming that many are anticipating by the end of the year...(more)
But Dr. Ronald Klingebiel, a professor at Warwick Business School, says that neither company is safe. A new crop of "cloud" smartphone operating systems are in the works and they offer these advantages:
Tons of apps. Apps would be written for the cloud, not a particular phone, similar to how PC cloud apps run in the browser on any PC like Windows, Macs or Linux.
Affordable phones: when the app runs in the cloud, the phones wouldn't need fast processors or a lot of memory, which would make them cheaper to produce...(more)
In the state of Delaware 888 Holdings has partnered up with Scientific Games Corporation, provider of gaming products and services to lottery and gaming companies around the globe, in a real money online poker option set to launch in October 2013.
Most recently, the Nevada Gaming Control Board gave preliminary approval for an online poker product offered by both local operator Golden Gaming and 888 Holdings. Earlier this year a Nevada gaming license was already approved for the partnership between 888 and Treasure Island Hotel and Casino...(more)
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