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Archive for July 5th, 2006
Wednesday, July 5, 2006 Development sparking on North Strip — and in Sparks By David McKee It's a beehive of activity on the North Strip and Dan Ahrens, founder of the new Gaming & Casino Fund has a good idea why. "Investors are looking for the next Aztar bidding war and they may be over-enthusiastic over what property in the [North Strip] space is worth," he says. Not that said situation [...]
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Wednesday, July 5, 2006 Poker sites crave sports betting By David McKee Never mind U.S. congressional disapproval: The Guardian reports that online poker outfit PartyGaming is looking to raise $922 million to buy sundry sports betting sites. Nor is PartyGaming anywhere near alone among online casinos pursuing diversification in an uncertain market.
Early favorites for acquisition by PartyGaming include favorite Gamebookers and long shot Unibet. If the name [...]
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Wednesday, July 5, 2006 Liberty Watch: The Propaganda By Steve Sebelius Even if Liberty Watch: The Magazine put out an April Fool's Day issue, it would be impossible to tell, since almost every issue of the rag is a joke. From avowed racist Ken Ward to the obviously cleaned-up prose of semi-literate Publisher George Harris, Liberty Watch is just a couple steps above a comic book [...]
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Wednesday, July 5, 2006 Google the future By Ian Mylchreest I just had another one of those head-slap, "Why-didn't-I-think-of-it" moments. It came right after I read New York Times columnist David Leonhardt's latest piece. It's about Google Trends.
That's the new product the search engine has put out to make use of all the data it collects. Everytime you do a search, you're looking for something [...]
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Wednesday, July 5, 2006 Bad news for realtors and some owners By Ian Mylchreest The bad news is coming all at once to readers of USA Today about the Las Vegas real estate market. If you watch it week-to-week like we at the Business Press blog do, youi'll already know this but it you're a realtor hoping for some out of town clients to buoy the market, expect them to low-ball [...]
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Wednesday, July 5, 2006 Enron chief dies By Ian Mylchreest The former Chairman and CEO of Enron Corporation, Ken Lay, died early this morning of a massive heart attack, reports the Associated Press. He was on vacation in Colorado with his wife Linda.
The Pitkin, Colo., Sheriff's Department was called to his holiday home in Old Snowmass, Colo., shortly after 1 a.m. He was taken to the [...]
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