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Scientific Games and IGT Announce ‘Cross-Licensing’ Pact, Patent-Sharing
Scientific Games and International Game Technology (IGT) have reached an agreement to share licenses and patents across their two companies. The casino technology and lottery services providers said in a statement that they've signed off on a "patent cross-licensing" contract that allows...
Hurricane Irma Won’t Stop Florida College Football Games, Despite Impending 185 MPH Wind Warnings
Hurricane Irma may have all but flattened several Caribbean islands this week with her 185 mile per hour wind gusts, but that's not enough to shut down sacred college football games and their accompanying big-money sports book lines on Florida, even in...
MGM Cotai Still Set to Open in 2017, Despite Typhoon Hato Setbacks
MGM Cotai will open its doors in late 2017, despite Macau beginning the recovery process after Typhoon Hato. The storm was the most powerful recorded hurricane to hit the city in 53 years, and caused nearly $2 billion in damages and took...
Casino Owner Tilman Fertitta Buys NBA’s Houston Rockets for $2.2 Billion
Seafood restaurant and casino magnate Tilman Fertitta agreed on Monday to shell out 2.2 billion clams for the NBA’s Houston Rockets. The purchase price set a record for professional basketball teams, exceeding the $2 billion that Steve Ballmer paid for the Los...
Indiana’s Commercial Operators Bemoan State’s First Tribal Casino
The casino landscape in Indiana is changing. The state’s ten riverboat casinos, based on the shores of Lake Michigan and the Ohio River, are begrudgingly about to welcome a new competitor to the fold. The state’s first tribal casino, the Pokagon Band...
Ban Gambling Brands on Soccer Shirts, Says UK Opposition Labour Party
A Labour government in the UK would put an end to gambling companies advertising on soccer jerseys, the party’s deputy leader Tom Watson said on Wednesday. This season, nine out of 20 English Premier League teams are bearing the logos of betting...
Cyberattacker Shows His Cards, Says Rival Site Paid for Assault on ACR Poker Network
The Winning Poker Network (WPN) and its flagship site America’s Card Room (ACR) were hit by a spate of massive DDoS attacks on Thursday. The onslaught lasted three days and resulted in the cancelation of the network’s “Bigger Online Super Series” (BOSS)...
MGM Resorts Sells National Harbor to Itself, Announces Stock Buyback
MGM Resorts International opened its $1.4 billion National Harbor property last December, and the big casino located about 10 miles from the White House across the Potomac River quickly became the top casino performer in Maryland. Now the Nevada-based casino giant is...
Supreme Court Sports Betting Case Receives AGA Brief in Support of New Jersey
The Supreme Court received an amicus brief this week filed by the American Gaming Association (AGA) that expresses the casino lobbyist's views that New Jersey's arguments against the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act (PASPA) have merit, and that the federal sports...
Caesars, MGM Push for DACA Immigration Reform Affecting Las Vegas ‘Dreamer’ Employees
Caesars Entertainment and MGM Resorts have urged Congress to move quickly on immigration reform, hoping to ease the fears of casino employees who have been left in limbo by the Trump Administration decision to rescind the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival (DACA)...