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Sheldon Adelson Shows Japan He’s Serious About Las Vegas Sands IR Bid with Personal Visit
Las Vegas Sands Chairman Sheldon Adelson was in Tokyo and Osaka last week to get the inside scoop on Japan's forthcoming integrated casino resort industry. The billionaire also offered up his company's expertise on the meetings, incentives, conferences, and events (MICE) industry,...
Hollywood Studio Owner Wants to Land a Pan Am Double-decker 747 on Vegas Strip
A Pan Am double-decker 747 could be winging its way to Vegas, if Hollywood film studio owner Talaat Captan has his way. Captan, CEO of studio Air Hollywood, which provides movies with airplane sets, is trying to convince casino operators on the...
Florida Should Share Lottery Revenue with Veterans Groups, Military Orgs Say
Sunshine State veterans groups think they're just as worthy of receiving a portion of the profits generated by the Florida Lottery as public education. And now they've banded together to initiate legislation that will push towards making that belief a reality. William...
Macau Riding Storm: Typhoon Hato Doesn’t Dampen August Revenue Growth
Macau’s gaming revenue increased 20.4 percent year on year in August, despite the best efforts of Typhoon Hato. The category 10 storm hit the enclave on Wednesday, August 23, causing severe flooding, and leaving ten dead and several hundred injured. Travel restrictions...
Howard University Pulls off Biggest Spread Upset in College Football History
Howard University was a 45-point underdog entering Saturday night's game in Las Vegas against UNLV. But that didn't stop the small Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference team from pulling off the biggest spread upset in college football history. Just 10 miles from the Strip,...
Heisman Hopes Vanish for Florida State’s Francois After Injury
The promise of a breakout year for Florida State University quarterback and Heisman Trophy candidate Deondre Francois was crushed when he suffered a season-ending knee injury in the fourth quarter of the Seminoles 24-7 loss to Alabama on Saturday. The signal caller...
Wynn Resorts Donates Millions to Hurricane Harvey and Typhoon Hato Relief, Other Gaming Companies Show More Love to Macau Than Texas
Wynn Resorts is donating a combined $7.5 million to relief efforts in Houston and Macau. Hurricane Harvey blasted the Texas city last week, making it the hardest hit major metropolis in the Lone Star State, while China's gambling enclave recently endured Typhoon...
British Bookmakers Offer Odds, as Kate Middleton and Prince William Announce Third Royal Pregnancy
The former Kate Middleton, aka the Duchess of Cambridge and wife of Prince William, is less than three months pregnant with the royal couple's third child, and the announcement already has overseas sports betting shops offering up odds on the upcoming baby's...
New DDoS Threat ‘WireX’ Harnesses Android Devices, But Tech Companies Are Fighting Back
Google was forced to remove around 300 Android apps from its Google Play Store this week after it emerged that they contained embedded malware that facilitated a new kind of distributed denial of service attack (DDoS), dubbed the WireX botnet. Online gambling...
Quebec Lottery Winners to Receive Virtual Reality Counselling
Quebec’s lottery winners are to be offered virtual reality therapy, thanks to an innovative new partnership between Loto-Quebec and the Jasmine Roy Foundation, an organization devoted to combatting bullying. It seems that barely a day goes by without someone dreaming up an...
