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Sheldon G. Adelson, chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Las Vegas Sands Corp., will be honored with the G2E Asia Visionary Award during Global Gaming Expo Asia (G2E Asia) 2011. The G2E Asia Visionary Award recognizes Adelson’s contributions to the gaming industry and key role in setting the stage for the next phase of gaming in Macau with the Sands Macao, the Venetian Resort Hotel Casino and the ongoing development of the Cotai Strip.
The widely reported indictments of popular online pokers sites PokerStars and FullTilt, accused of fraud and money laundering, have put in question the feasibility of the iGaming legalization efforts, undertaken both on the Federal and the State level. With the damage done to the reputation of online poker, many believe that fewer politicians will now be willing to back any of the bills that legalize internet poker.
International Game Technology and Scientific Games Corporation have entered into a definitive agreement whereby IGT will sell the Barcrest Group to Scientific Games for a net cash consideration of approximately $54 million. IGT may also receive an additional $3 million in cash subject to certain post-closing adjustments. In total, including a receivables collection arrangement...
Laurie Lasseter, Chief Technology Officer and Senior Vice President, Engineering, for WMS Industries, has been selected as a finalist for a 2011 Illinois Technology Association (ITA) CityLIGHTS award, in the Technologist of the Year Award category. Always blazing new industry trails, Laurie and her team have furthered the evolution of slot floors with the development and initial deployment...
iGaming Business has announced a partnership agreement with Global Gaming Expo (G2E). With this cross-promotional opportunity, these two giants of the gaming world hope to be able to reach distinctive audiences both from the world of online and offline gaming in order to increase reach and relevance for their audience. "We are thrilled to announce our partnership with G2E...
Fresh off the record-breaking success of its 10th North American Roundtable, GLI University™ will present the “2011 European Regulators Roundtable” 17-19 May at the Radisson Blu Béke Hotel in Budapest. The event is normally held in GLI Europe’s lab in Hillegom, The Netherlands, and was moved to Budapest to better accommodate regulators from different regions.
JCM Global has named Payam Zadeh as Director of Sales for the EMEA territories. Zadeh will work from the company’s European office in Düsseldorf, Germany. In his new position, Zadeh will oversee all JCM Global sales efforts and direct the sales, marketing, customer service and new product development team across Europe, Russia, the former CIS states, Africa and parts of the Middle East.
Gaming Support announced today that it has received the award for Best Electronic Signage from the Inside Asian Gaming Supplier Awards 2011. With a judging panel made up of senior executives from throughout the regional casino industry, this award win reinforces the operational robustness and product quality offered by JackpotJunction XL/CastNET, the leading gamingenabled digital signage solution in the global gaming industry.
DEQ Systems Corp. announces today the installation of its internationally award winning G3™ Progressive Jackpot and Bonusing System on 11 poker derivative table games at Cache Creek Casino Resort (“Cache Creek”) in California. “Cache Creek exemplifies everything the G3 has proven itself to be in more than 30 countries,” stated Earle G. Hall, President & CEO of DEQ.
WMS Gaming Inc., a subsidiary of WMS Industries Inc. today announced approval by Gaming Laboratories International ("GLI") of both the commercial version of the Company's WAGE-NET networked gaming system solution, a robust suite of platform technologies and system applications, and Jackpot Explosion, the first themed application in WMS' Ultra Hit Progressive ("UHP") Portal application family.
