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Bally Technologies’ slot machine Titanic won four awards at the Macau Gaming Show — Best Game Theme, Best Graphics, Best Music and Audio and Best User Experience.
AT&T has upgraded 16 mobile Internet cell sites in Las Vegas to expand its 4G LTE coverage.
Dotty’s has received gaming and licensing approval from the Nevada Gaming Commission for its purchase of the Hacienda, outside Boulder City. The property will be renamed Hoover Dam Lodge. It’s the company’s first hotel-casino property.
Nevada Attorney for Injured Workers was named the Nevada Department of Business and Industry’s 2013 Agency of the Year. Established by the Nevada Legislature in 1977, Attorney for Injured Workers is mandated to provide free legal services to injured workers seeking appeal of denied workers’ compensation benefits. The agency has offices Las Vegas and Carson City and employs 14 staff attorneys, four legal research assistants and 10 legal secretaries.
Bank of Nevada was selected Corporation of the Year by the Urban Chamber of Commerce for the bank’s sponsorship and work with NxLevel, a provider of entrepreneurial training.
The law firm Gordon Silver won an award for the Professional Services (Business-to-Business) category for deals more than $100 million at the M&A Advisor Awards.
Golden Gaming, operator of PT’s and Sierra Gold taverns, announced a partnership with Las Vegas-based Hospitality International Training, which helps nonviolent felons, incarcerated and homeless veterans as well as at-risk youths, ages 18 and older to learn skills in the culinary trade.
Equity Office Properties, a wholly owned subsidiary of Blackstone, announced the rebranding of the Hughes Center to HC | Hughes Center. The center is a 68-acre, mixed-use master-planned office campus comprising 1.4 million square feet of Class A office space, with a retail component.
The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority and the Consumer Electronics Association signed a memorandum of understanding between World Trade Center Las Vegas and World Trade Center Mexico City to enhance international business relationships. The agreement encourages Las Vegas and Mexico City to co-market under the World Trade Center brand.
The Consumer Electronics Association donated money to UNLV’s DesertSol solar house and to the Springs Preserve toward its DesertSol project during this year’s CES convention.
The Nevada State Contractors Board has launched a free mobile app that makes verifying license information easier. Users can search by business name, principal name or license number to ensure a contractor maintains an appropriate Nevada contractor’s license. Users can find disciplinary actions the board has taken against licensed contractors during a specified time period or by discipline type. It’s compatible with iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch and Android.
Equiinet and Ubiquita have merged under the Equiinet name. The newly combined Equiinet will continue to provide VoIP, unified threat management, connectivity failover, URL filtering, caching and communication services in North America and Europe. Equiinet’s International headquarters is in Las Vegas.