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The secret service that BetFair uses internally to monitor its web buzz

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REVEALED: How Inkling Markets is spying on BetFair, Smarkets, InTrade, HSX, NewsFutures, Consensus Point, Spigit, Zocalo, CrowdCast, and Midas Oracle

Spying on Inkling’s competitors

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Google, Competition and Openness

http://www.consumerwatchdog.org/resources/Googlepresentation.pdf http://www.consumerwatchdog.org/resources/charmoffensive.pdf UPDATE: Danny Sullivan

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Why would an event derivative trader inform his/her fellow traders about pieces of information that give clues about the future outcome of an event that they all bet on?

- Why did Jenni Peterson give clues to her competitors? – Why didn’t she keep the information (see comments #6 and #7) close to her chest instead? – Do the traders who use play money are more talkative than the … Continue reading

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