January 2009
28 Jan 09
Isle of Capri Casinos, Inc. announced today, pursuant to the terms of its previously announced cash tender offer (the "Tender Offer") to purchase up to an aggregate principal amount of $140 million of its 7% Senior Subordinated Notes due 2014 (the "Notes"), that holders had validly tendered and not…
27 Jan 09
Celebrated casino personality Gary Green has signed an agreement to be the public face of Synergy Gaming, a Florida-based slot machine company that has recently been showing up on the radar of gaming Industry analysts and casino operators.
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Green is best known as a flamboyant developer and…
26 Jan 09
Major gambling companies' ledgers have told the same, sinking story for a year: Fewer people are visiting casinos, their trips are getting shorter and they're not gambling as much.
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Casino construction has slowed or halted from one end of the Las Vegas Strip to the other, more than a dozen…
25 Jan 09
A new speaker with family ties to horse racing is leading the Texas House. A chairman who oversaw gambling legislation two years ago is under investigation and likely out of the picture. And a slowing state economy leaves lawmakers looking for budget cuts or new revenue.
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Gambling legislation…
15 Jan 09
Google, so dominant a search engine that the company's brand name has become an officially-recognized verb, recently announced that it would allow UK gambling affiliates to bid on Google Adwords.
The announcement comes just months after the company allowed gambling operators to buy Adwords.
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14 Jan 09
The U.S. state of Delaware could go a step closer to legalizing sports betting when Governor Ruth Ann Minner leaves office on January 20, legislators have said.The push to legalize betting in the tiny east coast state was put on hold in 2007 when the Democrat governor announced that she would veto…
13 Jan 09
The Macworld 2009 Conference & Expo was recently hosted in San Francisco. Over 40,000 Mac enthusiasts shared their innovative ideas, products and services relating to the Mac OS platform.In and amongst the frenzied activity, was a fresh new perspective on the future of high-tech products like…
10 Jan 09
Fancy a career in the gambling industry but don't know how to get started? A course at the UK's National Gaming Academy (NGA) might be just the right place to get the ball rolling.The NGA was launched in January 2008 with three campuses: at Blackpool and the Fylde College, an associate of Lancaster…
04 Jan 09
Online bingo games at online bingo halls can be played using either use 75-ball or 90-ball rules depending on the country. The rules are very straightforward; all that is needed to win bingo is to get all the numbers in a given bingo pattern.
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In the United States and Canada a 75-ball bingo…
03 Jan 09
Two decades ago, real estate mogul Randy Black turned this blip on the Arizona border into a boomtown when he opened the first of four casinos. Nearly 1 million visitors a year followed, and hotels, restaurants and stucco homes seemed to sprout from sand.
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"It seemed to be one of those things…