Press Release – This affiliate event offers an impressive integrated platform for communication, promotion, training and business partnership across the affiliate marketing landscape.  Offering attendees unique insight into opportunities to development business within Russia and across the CIS countries, in line with international market trends. Visit:  www.RACE-Expo.ru

iGaming Business – Interactive gaming company Netplay TV has confirmed its SuperCasino.com brand as the headline sponsor of UK reality television show Celebrity Big Brother 2013. Under the deal, SuperCasino.com branded bumpers will be shown from 9pm on all shows – including the main programme, support programming, online and video-on-demand content provided by commercial broadcaster Channel Five. SuperCasino.com also served as the headline sponsor for the Big Brother 2013 series, which aired earlier in the summer. Charles Butler, Netplay TV chief executive officer, said: “The sponsorship deal with Big Brother is already showing positive results, and illustrates the fact that…

A judge has granted permission for owners of the CityCenter development to demolish a flawed, half-built Las Vegas Strip hotel tower on the Strip after developers completed a fourth round of testing on the building. Clark County District Judge Elizabeth Gonzalez approved CityCenter’s motion Friday, clearing the way for owners MGM Resorts International and Dubai World to raze the Harmon Hotel tower. CityCenter officials said they would immediately start planning for the demolition, which could happen within a year. The Harmon was supposed to be a 48-story Las Vegas Strip hotel, and a part of the glittery $8.5 billion CityCenter…

Daily Herald – The billboard hard by the Atlantic City Expressway is supposed to speak for a single casino, not an entire company town. But Revel Casino Resort’s marketing slogan resonates loudly throughout this struggling seaside resort. “Gamblers Wanted,” it says. And how. Atlantic City, the erstwhile East Coast gambling mecca, is on an epic losing streak; over the past six years, competitive and economic forces have crushed the local casino economy, driving revenue down more than 40 percent. Once, the city that inspired the board game Monopoly had its own gambling monopoly on this side of the country. Now,…

Card Player – Philadelphia will soon be home to a brand new Las Vegas-style casino, and in the meantime authorities are cracking down on alleged illicit gambling operations. A federal indictment was unsealed Friday charging nine people in a loan sharking and illegal gambling ring allegedly run out of several Philadelphia businesses. There were a handful of charges listed in the indictment. They include racketeering conspiracy, racketeering collection of unlawful debt, making extortionate extensions of credit, collections of extensions of credit by extortionate means, operating an illegal gambling business and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a crime of…

Gambling911 – Bitcoin is becoming big business in the world of online gambling.  Earlier in the month, Gambling911.com reported that one of its ad sponsors, SportsBettingOnline.com, had become the first online sportsbook that was not bitcoin exclusive to begin offering the anonymous digital currency. Gambling911.com will be bringing on a bitcoin-specific online sportsbook during the month of September as well. The online gambling sector is slowly beginning to embrace the sometimes controversial currency that in recent months has come under more intense scrutiny of the US Government. One firm is now reporting that online gambling actually accounts for half of…