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Merger Markets on Microsoft-Yahoo
HP began to explore prediction markets in 1996, but did not even consider applying them to the 2002 HP-Compaq merger. Similarly, Yahoo and Microsoft are two of the companies mentioned most often as being involved in prediction markets (along with their main competitor Google), but I’ll bet none are considering the by-far-most-valuable markets they could [...]
Rushkoff on Crowd Sourcing
Douglas Rushkoff answering this year’s Edge question:
The Internet. I thought that it would change people. I thought it would allow us to build a new world through which we could model new behaviors, values, and relationships. … For now, at least, it’s turned out to be different. … The open source ethos has been [...]
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