May 25, 2013
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In Macau
Macau
| 27/05/2013
(Macau).- Philippines boxing legend Manny Pacquiao may visit Macau this autumn – prior to his fight at The Venetian Macao – to launch a new Aristocrat Technologies slot machine game based on his career. The news was given to Business Daily by the fighter’s manager Eric Pineda.
With the support of RGB Games
Macau
| 27/05/2013
(Macau).- The G2E Tradeshow held in Macau witnessed R.Franco’s Tombola Roulette essence of gaming presented hand in hand with RGB Games. The event received a large number of casino and bingo visitors and operators searching for new and different products to offer additional gaming and entertainment alternatives and incentives to their clients.
The court said the expressions are too generic
Macau
| 24/05/2013
(Macau).- The Court of Second Instance rejected Las Vegas Sands’s attempts to register “Cotai Strip CotaiExpo” and “Cotai Strip CotaiArena” as trademarks. Local newspaper Jornal Tribuna de Macau quoted two judgments that say both the expressions ‘Cotai’ and ‘Cotai strip’ stand for a specific area of the city where gaming, hotel and entertainment activities are being developed.
According to CEO Grant Bowie
Macau
| 24/05/2013
(Macau).- MGM China Holdings’s project in Cotai is on track to be complete in mid-2016, chief executive Grant Bowie said. “We’ll have the foundations finished by the end of this year… and with the contractor now on board we can obviously start building the infrastructure in 2014,” Bowie told Business Daily.
Innovations applauded by visitors
Macau
| 23/05/2013
(Macau).- Amatic Industries is showing its latest and greatest innovations – for both electronic roulette and slots gaming at G2E Asia, which concludes today in Macau. The firm said that it is turning out to be a very exciting and successful show and that it is seeing great interest from visitors from all around Asia.
Up by between 15 % and 19 % y-o-y
Macau
| 23/05/2013
(Macau).- Gross gaming revenue may reach over us$ 3.8 billion this month, according to Citigroup and Nomura. They are predicting May to exceed their estimates of us$ 3.68 billion. They say that table gaming revenue for the first 19 days of the month amounted to us$ 2.26 billion, Bloomberg reports.
As well as its Reno and Las Vegas campuses
China
| 23/05/2013
(China).- IGT announced it has received ISO 9001:2008 certification from SGS International Certification Services for its China Research and Development Office (CRDC) in Beijing.
Construction to be completed as early as 2016
Macau
| 22/05/2013
(Macau).- Galaxy Entertainment Group is planning to spend as much as us$ 7.7 billion on the third and fourth phases of its resort on Cotai, the company’s CFO Robert Drake said. The construction of phase 3 is expected to start in the end of 2013 or early 2014.
Said Frank Fahrenkopf, AGA CEO, within G2E Asia 2013
Macau
| 22/05/2013
(Macau).- Japan, Thailand, the Philippines or Singapore have been conquering space in the gambling world, but AGA President believes that, even with more players in the market, Macau has nothing to fear. Speaking at the opening of G2E Asia 2013, Frank Fahrenkopf said that with further competition Macau could only evolve as a primer gambling hub.
Over the words “Cotai Strip”
Macau
| 21/05/2013
(Macau).- In an judgement handed down on April 25 but made public last week, the Court of Second Instance has sided with Melco Crown Entertainment and rejected Sands’ attempt to register the “Cotai Strip CotaiTravel” as a trademark, Business Daily reports.