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Epic Poker Working To Drive Game More Into Mainstream US

Epic Poker started their poker league earlier this year, and now they are spearheading an effort to drive poker into mainstream America in the coming years. On Wednesday, Epic Poker announced a partnership with the USA Today.

Gaming Advertising Adressed in Online Casino Bill

A.J. Maldonado — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 18:57:31 +0000

Advertising for online casinos will likely be regulated by the Treasury, as an amendment to H.R. 2267 states.

Internet Gambling Bill Passes Congressional Committee Vote

Tom Weston — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 18:21:34 +0000

After months of waiting, Barney Rank's bill regulating Internet gambling was marked up and passed committee in Congress today.

No Surprise In Kentucky Where Church Comes Out Against Gambling

The Catholic church has taken to a familiar weapon, scare tactics, in their effort to keep gambling expansion from taking place in Kentucky. Despite the warnings, lawmakers appear poised to approve casinos in the state.

Fertitta Becomes Latest Gaming Company To File For Online License

The Fertitta family has become synonymous with casino gambling in the US, and on Thursday, Fertitta Interactive LLC showed that they intent on being part of the online poker revolution.

Tribe Puts Spin On Possible Minnesota Casino Expansion

When a new casino is mentioned in any state, developers line up to take their shot on acquiring a license. In Minnesota, it is the White Earth Tribe that is lobbying for a new casino, using the Vikings as a bargaining tool.

Table Games Move to Forefront of Delaware Gambling Expansion

Julie Wong — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 04:38:22 +0000

With single game sports betting ruled out, Delaware officials are frantically searching for new gambling that may fill the revenue hole in the state budget.

US More Like China Than UK Regarding Internet Gambling

Joshua McCarthy — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 22:43:12 +0000

News of China's continuing crackdown on online gambling so resembles US action that the US seems, in this instance more like the totalitarian country than other democracies like the UK.

News: Just Dance, Assassin's Creed boost Ubisoft Q3 sales to €652m

Thu, 16 Feb 2012 03:39:00 +0000

Sales for Ubisoft's third quarter were up 8.8 per cent to €652 million ($849.1) off the back of strong Assassin's Creed and Just Dance performance.

The Just Dance series shipped 13 million units during the quarter, with sales of Just Dance 3 now at 7 million units. Shipments of Assassin's Creed: Revelations hit 7 million units.

The company's online business saw sales increase 159 per cent driven by the strong performance of Settlers Online and Howrse, as well as an increase in digital distribution. During a conference call to investors, Ubisoft also confirmed that the highly-praised 2D game Rayman: Origins has been a profitable release for the company.

Back to the Future Episode 3: Citizen Brown is Now Available on iPad

Costas Stephanides — Thu, 26 May 2011 16:24:23 +0000

Telltales Hit Time Traveling Adventure Generates 1.21 Gigawatts and hits the AppStore

KPN NL Joins T-Mobile NL Unlimited Data Offering

Arjan Olsder — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 11:39:07 +0000

Dutch operator KPN holds three major mobile network labels in The Netherlands. With their Hi brand (aimed at the smartphone demographic), KPN has not only decided to ditch the internet restrictions,...

Admob on mobile advertising @mweb09

jamescoops — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 23:45:39 +0000

Andy Smith, the Sales Director for admob was at the Mobile Web Summit last week talking about what they are up to. He also hung around a lot during the conference to talk to people which was brilliant - I had a load of questions as a publisher using admob answered by him. He really confirmed why I love admob as a company - great at what they do and nice people who contribute a lot to the mobile ecoystem. Anyway, enough of the props, here's a few notes from Andy's presentation.

Mobile ad formats are becoming more developed:

- Text link/ banners
- Lozenge
- Home-screen takeover
- Video
- Interstitial

Actions "after the click" also expanding:

- Microsite
- Iphone app store (a lot of developer using admob to increase downloads and ranking on itunes)
- mapping/ location (e.g. best buy showing your local store on mobile google maps)
- Video streaming/ download (e.g. movie trailor)
- itunes (e.g. for a band pushing to music download)
- Click to call (actually very successful on mobile)
- Form fill in / data capture
- follow on Twitter (not seen that before - quite original)
- add vcard to phone contacts

Case Study - Capital FM iphone app advertised on admob

- aiming to increase rank on app store via advertising
- 1.35% click through rate
- 8% conversion to app store download
- 24k app store visites

Macau Poised to Break Revenue Record

Thu, 26 Jan 2012 14:25:00 +0000

Macau is poised to kick off 2012 on the same winning streak it enjoyed in 2011, with analysts predicting that January gambling revenue totals will eclipse the record set last October.

The Chinese New Year holiday is expected to give a big boost to Macau's revenues for January, with VIP operators and gambling junket providers (who largely cater to high stakes baccarat players from mainland China) already experiencing surging business in early 2012.

Union Gaming Group principal Grant Govertsen has pointed to increased occupancy rates at hotels and casino raising their maximum and minimum table stakes and stated that: "Assuming hold is within the normal range, it should translate into record gross gaming revenue. We have walked most of the major casino floors on each of the past several nights, both on the Macau Peninsula and Cotai Strip, and have seen crowds grow significantly."

Macau's current record for monthly gamblign revenue was $3.4 billion which was set in October 2011. While many associate Las Vegas as the gambling capital of the world, Macau passed the Vegas Strip in 2006 as far as total gambling revenue taken in and is poised to eclipse the entire state of Nevada in the near future.

The appetite of Asian gamblers shows no signs of being sated, with casinos in both Singapore and Macau showing double digit growth in 2011 with more of the same projected for 2012 and 2013.

Rumbles from the Chinese government about possibly slowing the growth of gambling in Macau via making credit harder to come by have spooked investors in the stocks of casino groups operating in Macau but to date has had no impact on the steady stream of gamblers visiting the former Portugese colony.

Several US casinos also stand to profit from booming business in Macau, with Las Vegas Sands, MGM International, and Wynn Resorts all operating casino properties in Macau.

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