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Hospitality executives and analysts see mobile phones, the Internet and other techno-gadgets as a way to better track their customers' habits in order to better serve them but, they also agree that too much data-collecting of the customer could appear intrusive.

Less than a year after coughing up $18 million to settle lawsuits brought by former Stratosphere shareholders, Lakes Gaming Inc. has triumphed in a lawsuit brought against it by former Stratosphere bondholders.

The estimated cost of Station Casino’s upscale Green Valley Ranch Station Casino has escalated to $300 million.

The Aladdin hotel-casino and Blue Note Las Vegas lounge say that the empty lot next door to them is deterring many customers from entering their establishments.

Fabrizio Boccardi, with his ``Genesis'' gaming concept, intends to create a new trend recognition in Las Vegas and throughout the world, to new levels of gambling on a casino floor.

The company said it expects to complete its new 1,000-room hotel tower and 350-seat coffee shop, a $60 million project, in late June.

Park Place is earmarking funds toward the construction of a fifth hotel tower at Caesars Palace, one month after receiving approval from Clark County.

Asian organized crime may not have reached the level the Italian mob once had in Las Vegas, but there have been two recent busts that prove this area is not immune to a growing international problem.

Aladdin’s parent company reported that the megaresort failed to produce enough cash flow to service its debt in its first full quarter of operations.

Ty Inc. which accused Aztar Corp. of illegally promoting Ty's "Beanie Baby" toys in exchange for slot play at Aztar's Tropicana hotel-casinos, has reached a settlement with the hotel-casino operator.

Full House Resorts Inc. of Las Vegas announced it bought out GTECH Corp.'s 50 percent interest in three Indian casino management companies for $1.8 million.

News Brief: A new study says Indian casinos in California could cost Nevada millions of dollars in tax revenue and thousands of jobs.

Phoenix-based Utell said it has signed a three-year contract to provide hotel reservations services to Park Place Entertainment.

Fresh light into the struggles of the $1.2 billion Aladdin hotel-casino will be provided today, when the resort's holding company issues its annual report.

News Brief: Despite soaring prices for electricity, the big hotel-casinos don't plan to reduce their dazzling wattage outside: but they are cutting energy use indoors.

News Brief: A Las Vegas lawmaker advises that stricter limits are needed on proposed casino projects in Nevada's residential areas to preserve the integrity of neighborhoods.

A bill to attract mega high-rollers who can afford to lose big sums like $20 million at Las Vegas casinos appears to have clear sailing in the Nevada Senate.

Politicians and industry leaders say that Nevada has the ability to be the first state to enter the multi-billion dollar Internet gaming market.

News Brief: Las Vegas’ dazzling, mammoth signs and marquees are threatened as energy costs throughout the West threaten to short-circuit Nevada’s top industry.

Alliance Gaming Corp. of Las Vegas said Wednesday it expects to report net income of 60 cents per share for the quarter ending March 31.