Bo Bernhard, executive director of the International Gaming Institute and professor of sociology and hotel management at UNLV, recently gave a TED Talk saying Las Vegas is a smart city. He’s not talking about book smarts but “social intelligence.”
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Save for a few small companies, Wall Street has thrown in the towel on slot machine manufacturers for 2014.
Getting the High Roller ready for the Strip was no simple feat. Besides preparing the wheel for riders, planners designed equipment and made preparations for the worst-case scenario — how to rescue stranded riders.
On the campaign trail, Republican lieutenant governor candidate Sue Lowden touts her decades in business as a casino executive to show she’s more qualified for the job of promoting tourism and economic development than her GOP opponent Mark Hutchison, an attorney and state senator.
Nevada Gaming Commission soundly rejects pleas to allow gaming license holders to also have holdings in legal medical marijuana
The Culinary and Bartenders Unions today called for a strike against nine Downtown Las Vegas casinos: The D, Four Queens, Binion’s, Fremont, Main Street Station, Plaza, Las Vegas Club, El Cortez and Golden Gate starting at 5 a.m. on June 1.
Wynn Resorts Ltd. named its head of corporate finance as the company’s chief financial officer.
Hakkasan Group announced Wednesday it will close Pure on May 26 for an extensive renovation and expansion and that it will open in 2015 under a new name and concept.
Construction workers this week began dismantling a large crane that has sat unused atop the mothballed Fontainebleau on the North end of Strip for more than five years.
The investment community long has expressed concern over the growing debt that weighs down many casino companies, most notably the $21 billion anchor around the neck of Caesars Entertainment Corp.
The name Dotty’s wasn’t mentioned once by Clark County commissioners as they tried Wednesday to tweak an ordinance that might stop the proliferation of slot parlors.
The Gaming Control Board told its license holders Tuesday that they cannot participate in Nevada’s medical marijuana business. In an industry notice posted to the Control Board’s website, the agency said the federal government views distribution, possession and sale of marijuana as a crime.
Gaming industry icon Burton Cohen died Monday at his home in the Regency Towers in the Las Vegas Country Club, sources tell the Review-Journal. During his 50 years in Las Vegas, Cohen ran a number of major casinos, including Desert Inn, Dunes and Frontier.
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