A Chinese consortium that includes game developer Shanghai Giant Network Technology and e-commerce company Alibaba Group founder Jack Ma has agreed to acquire Caesars Interactive Entertainment Inc’s online games unit for $4.4 billion in cash, the companies said.
The casino was built in 1931, the same year gambling was legalized in Nevada, to serve as an entertainment center for Hoover Dam workers.
Nevada casinos posted a strong 6.8 percent gaming win in June, helping the state’s major industry eke out a tiny 0.66 percent gain for the fiscal year that ended June 30, the state Gaming Control Board reported Friday.
On the verge of Wynn Resorts’ opening of a 1,700-room resort on Macau’s Cotai Strip next month, the Las Vegas company reported an improved financial performance for the Chinese enclave and second-quarter earnings that surpassed analysts’ expectations.
A rejuvenated Klondike Sunset Casino in Henderson was licensed Thursday by the Nevada Gaming Commission and plans to open for business Wednesday at 6 p.m.
Nevada gaming regulators on Thursday approved a $1.5 million settlement with sports book operator CG Technology to resolve a complaint about underpayments on its computerized betting system.
IGT, the London-based slot machine manufacturing giant, reversed a second-quarter loss with higher revenue totals than expected by Wall Street analysts, the company announced Thursday.
Las Vegas Sands Corp. will open The Parisian, a resort embellished with a half-scale replica of the Eiffel Tower, in Macau on Sept. 13.
A Maryland casino is suing MGM Resorts International over lists of high-rollers.
The Clark County Fire Department responded Monday morning with the Las Vegas Fire Department’s hazardous material team to calls of a possible nitrogen leak outside the Criss Angel Theater at the Luxor on the Strip.
