January 21st, 2012
Via All Things D, a report on Zynga’s growing interest in online gambling. As the article notes: Zynga is getting ready to try its hand at online gambling. The company has confirmed to All Things D that it is actively investigating several opportunities, and is in talks with several partners about gambling on the Internet. A [...]
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January 15th, 2012
Via All Things D, a report on the acquisition of Seattle-based Double Down Interactive (DDI) by video poker giant International Game Technology for $500 million. As the article notes, with both Caesars and IGT putting their hats into the social gaming ring, it’s hard not to wonder if — or when — gambling will become [...]
Read more »December 13th, 2011
Via Kevin’s Corner, an article on the potential of Facebook opening a platform to support internet gambling: Recently, I returned to San Francisco from a four week trip abroad(Nepal). Within several hours of my return I was confronted by a colleague telling me that Facebook was going to allow “real” gambling on its platform. I [...]
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October 8th, 2011
Via RateLasVegas, an interesting summary of MGM CEO Jim Murren’s keynote speech at this week’s G2E conference in Las Vegas that included some thoughts on the future of the company’s gaming operations online. “…Not a lot of groundbreaking news except for the fact that Murren alluded to new social programs or apps that he described [...]
Read more »September 28th, 2011
Via Kevin Flood, some interesting thoughts from the 2011 European Internet Gambling (EiG) conference: “…Social Networks – For years the I-gaming industry has dismissed or only partially entertained a relationship with social networks seeing the networks as at best, distantly related to their business and not a significant source of gaming revenue or player acquisition. [...]
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September 19th, 2011
Via RateLasVegas, some information about an interesting new company founded by Andrew Pascal, former COO and President of Wynn Las Vegas and Encore, focused on ‘social gaming’. While we have written about the likely socialization and virtualization of gambling in previous posts, this is a company that possibly may be taking it to heart. As [...]
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