STRAIGHT FROM THE DOUBLESPEAK DEPARTMENT: NewsFutures CEO Emile Servan-Schreiber, well known to chase tirelessly the Infidels who dare calling “prediction markets” their damn polling system, is eager to sell the confusion to his clients and whomever would listen.

Chris F. Masse April 18th, 2008

Emile’s made up a phrase that means nothing (except in his fertile imagination), “a proprietary prediction market variant“ —sounds like a red herring to me.

Unlike Consensus Point, Inkling Markets and Xpree, NewsFutures is the only prediction market software vendor not to have adopted Robin Hanson’s MSR —a simplified trading technology now in use in most enterprise prediction markets.

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