What eSports Can Tell Us About The Future Of Online Gambling
October 1st, 2012
Via Forbes, a look at what eSports can tell us about the future of online gambling: More 18-24 year old males watched Major League Gaming’s Spring Championship this year than the Rose Bowl. More than twice as many of them tuned into a video game competition compared to the first round of the NBA Playoffs […]
Read more »Marrying Video Games With Online Trading: Something For Casino Games To Learn From?
September 21st, 2012
Via The Wall Street Journal, an interesting article on one firm’s efforts to marry video games with an online brokerage. Can casino adopt similar principals? Online investing startup Kapitall Inc. is betting the marriage of video-game design and trading software, along with the leadership of a brokerage industry veteran, will make it the broker […]
Read more »Are Social And Freemium Games Stealing Players From Internet Gambling Operators?
September 8th, 2012
Via Kevin’s Corner, some commentary on social and freemium games vis-a-vis internet gambling operations: There has been a recent surge of freemium and social virtual currency based gambling style games in Facebook and on mobile devices. The number of offerings and the amount of players is staggering. It is estimated that Facebook social games have […]
Read more »South Point Puts Poker On Line
September 8th, 2012
Via VegasSeven, a report on a new Nevada online poker initiative: On Aug. 23, the Nevada Gaming Commission approved the South Point’s application to run a legal online poker room—the first Nevada casino to be granted such a license. We are on the cusp of writing history. So what’s really going on with the operation, […]
Read more »Zynga: Ramping Up Its Online Gambling Ambitions
August 31st, 2012
Via AllThingsD, a report that Zynga has added some firepower to its online gambling ambitions: AllThingsD has learned that Maytal Ginzburg is joining Zynga as the company’s chief operating officer in charge of new markets, according to her LinkedIn profile. As recently as July, Ginzburg was the SVP of regulated markets at 888 Holdings, where […]
Read more »Real Cash Online Poker Okay’ed
August 26th, 2012
Courtesy of the Las Vegas Review Journal, a report on the first real-money poker website: Michael Gaughan’s South Point Poker LLC on Thursday made history as the first U.S. casino to be licensed to operate an intrastate, real-money poker website. The unanimous approval by the five-member Nevada Gaming Commission is not only the first in […]
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