Tag Archives: Betdaq

Betdaq’s financials

Posted on July 3, 2009 by Guest Author

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

Posted in All Guest Authors's Posts, Betting, Business, Ethics, Exchanges & Markets, Finance | Tagged accounts, Betdaq, financials | Leave a comment

Betbull exits Betting Exchange Space.

Posted on February 25, 2009 by Niall O'Connor

The German and Spanish facing betting company, Betbull Holding SE, has announced that it is withdrawing from the Betting Exchange Business. In a press statement, Betbull Holding SE said that it had taken the decision to cease trading on it’s … Continue reading →

Posted in All Guest Authors's Posts, Betting, Business, Exchanges & Markets | Tagged BetBull, Betdaq, betting exchanges, betting market, betting markets, prediction exchanges, prediction markets | 1 Comment

Betdaq Forum

Posted on January 21, 2009 by Chris F. Masse

Betdaq Forum New. -

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Betdaq’s SEO trick managed to get its website to be listed ahead of BetFair’s one in the Google Web Search results. — For how long?

Posted on December 7, 2008 by Chris F. Masse

Betdaq has set up another website, bettingexchange.com. They did that just for the purpose of passing over BetFair for the “betting exchange” query. It is working. Congrats. However, it remains to be seen whether this SEO trick will stand the … Continue reading →

Posted in Exchanges & Markets, Internet Marketing - Internet Commerce | Tagged Betdaq, BetFair, betting exchanges, betting markets, Google Search, Google Web Search, Internet Marketing, prediction exchanges, prediction markets, Search Engine Optimization, Search Engines, SEO | 2 Comments

The “Objectivity” —according to BetFair

Posted on November 3, 2008 by Chris F. Masse

BetFair Predicts (a blog run by BetFair) titled “The Power Of Objectivity” a post giving the latest odds produced by BetFair on the race for the White House. The real “objectivity” would have been to quote the odds produced by … Continue reading →

Posted in Ethics, Exchanges & Markets, Prediction Journalism | Tagged Betdaq, BetFair, BetFair Predicts, HubDub, InTrade, Iowa Electronic Markets, NewsFutures, objectivity, prediction exchanges, prediction market journalism, prediction markets | 5 Comments

Towards prediction market webpages (a la HubDub) that Google can index, that web visitors can land on directly (even after the event derivative contract expiry), that traders can comment on, and that bloggers can directly link to

Posted on October 18, 2008 by Chris F. Masse

Posted in All Best Posts Ever, Analysis (Industry), Exchanges & Markets, Internet Marketing - Internet Commerce, Internet Usability | Tagged Betdaq, BetFair, HubDub, Internet Usability, prediction market webpages, prediction markets, usability | Leave a comment

InTrade, TradeSports, BetFair and Betdaq should re-package prediction makets as insurance or contingent goods.

Posted on September 29, 2008 by Chris F. Masse

Posted in Analysis (Industry), Finance, Inventions & Innovations | Tagged Betdaq, BetFair, contingent goods, Finance, Insurance, InTrade, prediction markets, re-packaging prediction makets as insurance, TradeSports | Leave a comment

Google PageRank of the main Prediction Exchanges

Posted on August 4, 2008 by Chris F. Masse

Pop Sci PPX is graded 7 / 10. — (Congrats to them. We will see whether that can be sustained over time.) BetFair, InTrade, TradeSports, the Iowa Electronic Markets, the Hollywood Stock Exchange, and NewsFutures USA (their exchange, not their … Continue reading →

Posted in Exchanges & Markets, Internet Marketing - Internet Commerce | Tagged bet exchanges, Betdaq, BetFair, betting exchanges, event derivative exchanges, Google, Google PageRank, HedgeStreet, Hollywood Stock Exchange, inkling markets, InTrade, Iowa Electronic Markets, MATCHBOOK, NewsFutures, PageRank, prediction exchanges, prediction markets, Reality Markets, SpreadFair, TradeSports, Yahoo! | Leave a comment

BBC’s Panorama, the most famous investigative TV news show of British television (the equivalent of CBS’s 60 Minutes in the US), will air a segment on sport corruption and insider trading in the world of betting, on Wednesday, July 30, 2008.

Posted on July 26, 2008 by Chris F. Masse

Panorama: BBC One Panorama Wed 30 Jul, 9:00 pm – 10:00 pm 60mins Nearly six years after its award-winning expose of corruption in horse racing, Panorama returns to the sport of kings to investigate the world of betting. Paul Kenyon … Continue reading →

Posted in Ethics, Exchanges & Markets, Regulations | Tagged BBC, BBC One, bet exchanges, Betdaq, BetFair, Betting, betting exchanges, CBS, event derivative markets, event derivatives, horse betting, horse racing, insider trading, Panorama, Paul Kenyon, prediction exchanges, prediction markets, Pure Digital Flipvideo Camcorder 60mins Blk, real-money prediction markets, sport corruption, United Kingdom, United States | 13 Comments

The UK’s Gambling Commission is after BetFair and Betdaq for in-running (in-play) betting.

Posted on May 15, 2008 by Chris F. Masse

- Do you have any information about the customer profile in the in-running betting market (ie is it made up predominantly of specialist, knowledgeable betting customers)? … sources of information and time delays; availability of high-speed broadband; computer software packages … Continue reading →

Posted in Betting, Exchanges & Markets, Market Trading, Regulations | Tagged bet exchanges, Betdaq, BetFair, betting exchanges, broadband, computer software packages, Gambling Commission, in-play, in-running-, prediction exchanges, prediction markets, Sports, UK's Gambling Commission, United Kingdom | 63 Comments