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LONDON (4 April) – The introduction of casino legislation in Japan will lead to the development of a raft of creative agencies hungry to win the marketing budgets of integrated resort offerings, according to Chris Wieners, managing director of the Macau based HOGO Marketing. Wieners, whose session at May's Japan Gaming Congress (JgC) is entitled ‘Finding your customer – unique challenges and opportunities that exist when marketing to the Japanese consumer’, explained: "I think for the casinos to succeed they...
One Hundred Sands was given the go-ahead to be Fiji’s first ever casino in December 2011 and now, developers have begun constructing the resort. The developers were supposed to have the casino resort built and operational in October 2013. The us$290 million casino resort will create over 1,600 jobs during the construction period and once completed. The company is currently paying a fine of us$100,000 per month to the Fiji government in contract agreement delays as the developers were supposed...
(US).- The bidding process to operate non-Native American casinos in upstate New York starts today and state gaming officials are expected to adopt and issue criteria for judging resort applications. The New York State Gaming Commission and New York Gaming Facility Location Board have back-to-back meetings scheduled this afternoon in New York City and are expected to approve the start of the formal application process that will eventually end with up to four casinos being licensed on non-Native American lands...
With less than a month to go before Teradata’s webcast entitled ‘Big data, big decisions: Why analytics is the future of the gaming industry’, panelist Duncan Ross, chief data scientist at Teradata, gives an insight into why, in such a data-heavy sector, igaming companies should be using it more effectively to solve business problems and needs and ultimately gain an edge on the competition. by Duncan Ross, chief data scientist, Teradata Bringing data together to see the whole customer This...
LONDON (March 20) – GiGse 2014 has signed up to be a premium sponsor of the 18th Annual East Coast Gaming Congress and iGaming Institute, in a coordinated effort by both events to guide attendees who require a comprehensive, cost-effective understanding of i-gaming’s future in North America. ECGC and iGaming Institute, the gaming industry’s largest conference outside of Nevada, will take place May 19-20, 2014, at the Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa in Atlantic City. GiGse 2014 takes place July...