Media Decoder Blog: The Breakfast Meeting: The Tech Industry Looks to Online Gambling and Business Insider Appoints an Executive Editor

Online gambling is being focused as the next billion dollar business by developers across the technology industry. Developers are currently aiming their products at foreign markets while trying to make inroads in the United States, where online gambling is still largely illegal. Legislation to legalize the practice is slow, facing headwinds from brick and mortar casinos and traditional antigambling factions. Joe Weisenthal who begins his day at 4:00 am and maintains a frenetic twitter presence has been named the executive director of the six year old online news site business insider for which Joe is the lead financial blogger.

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Media Decoder Blog: The Breakfast Meeting: The Tech Industry Looks to Online Gambling and Business Insider Appoints an Executive Editor