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Crowdfunding is thought to be worth $10bn worldwide in 2014, with equity crowdfunding accounting for $700m of the total.

Reyes’s New Year’s event, called Evolve Vegas NYE, is 20 months in the planning and has been about all her four-person staff has worked on since the doors of the Las Vegas Gay Visitors Bureau opened in mid-2013.

The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority on Friday reported 3.46 million visitors to Southern Nevada for the month, a 3.1 percent increase from a year earlier.

The fundraiser supports the National Center for Responsible Gaming’s research efforts.

The discussion will take place during GiGse in San Francisco (July 14-16).

Clarion, organisers of world-leading gaming brands and services including ICE Totally Gaming, ICE Conferences, GiGse, EiG, WrB, Japan Gaming Congress, Brasil Gaming Congress, TotallyGaming.com and Commercial Intelligence have signed a global partner agreement with G3, publishers of G3 magazine, G3-247.com, G3Newswire and G3i App.

“The most important economic data points are all trending in the right direction,” says Station Casinos Chief Financial Officer Marc Falcone, who spent more than a decade as a Wall Street analyst. “The only place we’re not seeing it is in gaming revenue.”

ECGC and iGaming Institute co-founders Michael Pollock, managing director of Spectrum Gaming Group, and Lloyd Levenson, CEO of the Cooper Levenson law firm, issued a joint statement.

Jim Clifton, who has been the consulting and public opinion research group’s CEO since 1988, said political and business leaders need to change their thinking if the U.S. economy is to rebound.

The agreement ends a flirtation by the PRCA, the sanctioning body that oversees the NFR, with Orlando, Fla., and Dallas.

ICE Totally Gaming has harnessed the sense of smell as a method of engaging with its stakeholders, having commissioned a brand scent which is being used both in the lead-up to and during the world's biggest gaming event.

The Commercial Intelligence survey, a joint venture between Clarion Events and Vivid Interface, interviewed 2,000 mobile gamers across the U.K.

Clarion Events has announced the format for a new high level Networking & Business programme, which has been developed in partnership with leading gaming associations including IAGA, ECA, NCF and IAGR.

Eight of the 11 seats on UNLV’s stadium board are now filled. University officials are waiting for the governor, the Assembly speaker and the Senate majority leader to each appoint a member to round out the board.

This year's expo will feature a flood of new games.