Las Vegas Business News

9 apps to help your business

Business owners and managers always are game to try new tricks to increase productivity, manage employees and expenses more efficiently and interact better with clients and customers. Desktop computers have all but replaced paper for business management, and now, mobile applications are getting their turn.

22 March 2015

By VEGAS INC Staff

Tattoo removal is just the beginning for local business

Dr. Douglas Fife is part of the Southern Hills Skin Cancer tumor board, which meets monthly to discuss challenging or rare skin cancer cases and plan how best to help patients.

Surgical Dermatology & Laser Center is a dermatology practice that specializes in Mohs micrographic surgery and reconstruction for skin cancer, laser tattoo removal, acne scar therapy and laser resurfacing.

22 March 2015

By VEGAS INC Staff

Low cost of oil may not spark economic recovery

Crude oil prices dropped from about $100 a barrel in July to a low of about $44 on March 6. Lower crude prices lead to lower gasoline prices and cheaper travel to Las Vegas by car. Spending less on gas also puts more money in the pockets of visitors and residents alike. But the net effect of falling gas prices on consumption depends on a 65-year-old theory of consumer spending by Milton Friedman ...

22 March 2015

Stephen Miller

Law firm partner: ‘I can bask in the reflected glory of my people’

Attorney Mark Riccardi is regional managing partner of Fisher & Phillips, a labor and employment law firm.

Mark Ricciardi, regional managing partner of Fisher & Phillips, founded the firm’s Las Vegas office and has represented hotels, casinos, financial institutions, manufacturers, government agencies and other businesses since 1987 — including a case that went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court ...

22 March 2015

By VEGAS INC Staff

Gamblers ask judge to let them keep $1.5 million in unshuffled card case

This Aug. 31, 2012, photo shows the Golden Nugget casino in Atlantic City.

Gamblers who have been ordered to return $1.5 million they won at an Atlantic City casino that unknowingly used unshuffled cards asked a judge to let them keep the money. The 14 gamblers say they won the money while playing ...

20 March 2015

By Wayne Parry, Associated Press

From pawn shops to guns and ammo, the top 10 most popular store types in Nevada

Tariq Ibraham, owner of Evapor8, a hookah lounge and vapor boutique, blows water vapor from an e-cigarette after a ribbon-cutting ceremony at Neonopolis in downtown Las Vegas Thursday, Aug. 8, 2013. Store manager Ahmed Tebha looks on at right.

The chic shops lining the Strip may be big draws among tourists, but they’re hardly Nevada’s most popular retail destinations. The collaboration found that video game stores are ...

20 March 2015

By Andrea Domanick

Lottery proposal: Lifeline for Nevada education, or dead on arrival?

This undated photo shows Powerball jackpot winner Marie Holmes, second from left, after she received a check from North Carolina Education Lottery executive director Alice Garland, second from right, in Raleigh, N.C. To the left is financial adviser Dexter Perry and attorney Charles Francis, right. Holmes, a single mother of four, came forward Monday, Feb. 23, 2015, as one of three winners in a huge Powerball jackpot.

Amid all the discussion in Carson City about improving education, one piece of legislation is refloating an old, but likely ill-fated, idea to help fund Nevada’s bottom-tier school system: creating a state lottery. Assembly joint resolution No. 6 would ...

20 March 2015

By J.D. Morris

Sports books cheer as underdog covers first 10 NCAA games

UAB guard Denzell Watts acknowledges the fans as his team and he celebrate their win over Iowa State in an NCAA tournament second-round basketball game in Louisville, Ky., on Thursday, March 19, 2015. UAB won the game 60-59.

Favored teams took a beating to open the tournament, with underdogs covering the spread in the first 10 games, beginning with the play-in games earlier in the week. In seven of those games, the team oddsmakers figured would lose ended up ...

19 March 2015

Associated Press

Bankruptcy of debt-heavy Caesars division is complex, lengthy

In this Monday, Jan. 12, 2015, photo, a man takes pictures of Caesars Palace in Las Vegas.

No one said it was going to be easy, and the bankruptcy of Caesars Entertainment's debt-heavy operations arm has been anything but as it appears to be growing even more ...

19 March 2015

By Kimberly Pierceall, Associated Press

Elaine Wynn continues fight to stay on Wynn Resorts board

Elaine Wynn speaks during a Las Vegas Metro Chamber of Commerce Business Power Luncheon on Wednesday, May 8, 2013, at the Rio.

Advancing her ongoing fight to remain on the board of Wynn Resorts, Elaine Wynn today further laid out her case for why stockholders should reject ...

19 March 2015

By J.D. Morris

Las Vegas foreclosure filings on the rise, report finds

A view of a neighborhood with three-story homes in Las Vegas, April 4, 2013.

Nevada’s foreclosure woes worsened last month as lenders seized more homes than in January and filed more default notices. One in every 569 homes statewide received ...

18 March 2015

By Eli Segall

Caesars loses bid to have Delaware lawsuit dismissed

A Delaware judge has refused to dismiss a lawsuit accusing Caesar's Entertainment Corp. of fraudulently transferring assets of its operating subsidiary to shield them from ...

18 March 2015

By Randall Chase, Associated Press

4 found guilty in homeowner association fraud trial

A Nevada lawyer and three co-defendants have been found guilty of conspiracy and wire fraud in what a jury was told was a sweeping scheme to control homeowner associations and steer business to ...

18 March 2015

Associated Press

80 years later, how would Atlantic City-based Monopoly look?

This Wednesday, March 11, 2015, photo shows Mayor Don Guardian on Atlantic City's Boardwalk — the most valuable spot on the Monopoly board game. The game turns 80 years old on March 19, 2015.

Monopoly is turning 80. Based on the real-life streets of Atlantic City, Monopoly is one of the world's most popular board games. The greed-driven game, in which competitors try to buy up ...