Earlier this week, an unnamed buyer purchased the Las Vegas Review-Journal, Nevada's largest daily newspaper, for an astonishing $140 million. That may not sound like a story that impacts the igaming world, but it's much more important than you might think. The Review-Journal sale is particularly puzzling for a number of reasons, not the least…
The team at TheScore.com thinks that they've found the solution to the daily fantasy sports industry's quagmire of legal problems in the form of QuickDraft, a free-to-play DFS app. QuickDraft uses a novel, though not original plan for doing an end run around the United States' ban on sports betting by keeping the element of…
The true identity of Satoshi Nakamoto, the anonymous creator of Bitcoin, may finally have been uncovered. Earlier this week, both Wired and Gizmodo identified 45-year-old Australian entrepreneur Craig Steven Wright as the man behind the digital crypto-currency. Both sites point to a series of blog posts Wright made back in 2009 that refer to launching…
US-facing daily fantasy sports sites have seen a major decline in tournament entries and guaranteed prize pools (GPP) since the insider trading scandal broke back in September. According to a recently released analytics report from Adam Kreijcik, managing director of digital and interactive gaming at Eilers Research, action in GPPs is down as much as $10 million…
Roger Thomas Clark, the 54-year-old man who the Department of Justice says was one of the masterminds behind the Silk Road, is awaiting extradition to the US in a Thai jail cell. Clark, who the DOJ believes is actually Canadian, was nabbed on December 3 in an operation that was conducted by Thai police and…
New Jersey's Division of Gaming Enforcement is, once again, brainstorming new ways to help Garden State online operators attract new customers. Among the recent proposals being studied by the Division is a measure that would allow online gambling operators to use celebrity pitchmen to endorse their products. So what's the big deal about hiring a…
Ladbrokes, one of the UK's biggest bookmakers, has signed a sponsorship agreement with German soccer club SV Verder Bremen. It's the first time Ladbrokes has linked up with a big-time German football organization and could represent a major toehold for Ladbrokes in the volatile German sports betting market. Details of the deal were not readily…
Nevada gaming revenues took a 2.9% dip in the month of October in, yet another, indication of the volatility of the worldwide casino gambling market. But, as is so often the case, there was a sprinkling of good news mixed in with the dismal monthly results. According to numbers just released by the Nevada Gaming…
It seems safe to say that most players whose Full Tilt Poker accounts were frozen on Black Friday did not expect to ever see that money again. But, as of this writing, Full Tilt Poker is reporting that a whopping 92% of those players have been made whole by the poker giant and its parent…
Tan Seet Eng, the alleged mastermind of a massive effort to fix soccer matches around the world, is a free man today after a judge ordered his release from a Singaporean jail. Eng's lawyers successfully argued that their client's detention was illegal, given the fact that he has not been charged with any crimes in…
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