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Betdaq’s financials

[This article by a guest author has been contested, for the reason that information about the bigger picture was missing. It is retired.]

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BetFair is going to make money in America…

…”even without changes to betting laws.”

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CrowdCast has 11 employees.

Wow.
CrowdCast @ LinkedIn
Previously: CrowdCast = Collective Forecasting = Collective Intelligence That Predicts
Next: In most cases, the team (including the best predictors) outshines the best predictor working alone.

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Koleman Strumpf on how weaker copyright protection benefits society

Koleman Strumpf on how weaker copyright protection benefits society

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Royal Bank of Scotland Group (RBSG): No more gambling and betting transactions in The Netherlands and Switzerland.

Royal Bank of Scotland Group (RBSG): No more gambling and betting transactions in The Netherlands and Switzerland.
Via Medemi

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Go trading enterprise prediction markets… if you want to meet the boss.

Adam Siegel:
One incentive that doesn’t get much attention is granting “exclusive access” to traders. The most successful format we’ve seen of this is picking those who are regularly participating in the marketplace, i.e. “20 random traders with 20 or more trades” and inviting them to a roundtable with a (very) senior executive on a monthly [...]

David Pennock’s boss is clueless.

Yahoo! CEO Carol Bartz is totally clueless. She is not the right person to lead a search engine / portal.

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The Future of Media: 2009

I have watched many times this great video capturing the thoughts of a bunch of Internet celebrities —recorded at New York University (minus Prof Panos).
Does anyone know how to download that damn UStream video? Contact moi, or tweet moi. Thanks.

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Wanna make money on Midas Oracle?

Chris Masse is seeking business partners to create an Internet agency, an event business, and a popular news blog (fed by prediction markets, of course). If you are interested in becoming rich (or in losing your money), then hit the contact button.

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Why Google don’t want to hire research scientist David Pennock

Mercury News:
A recruiter who left Google last year says that the company [= Google] had maintained a “do not touch” list of companies including Genentech and Yahoo, whose employees were not to be wooed to the Internet search giant.
That revelation could be significant in light of this week’s disclosure that the U.S. Justice Department is [...]

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