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NewsFutures’ hyper marketese on their prediction market consultancy and software package for enterprise prediction markets

Written by Chris F. Masse on June 10, 2008 — 4 Comments

NewsFutures:
Top-10 reasons why NewsFutures is the ideal partner to harness the wisdom of your crowd
1.) Integrated Solutions
We offer complete solutions, not just great software. This approach delivers a much higher success rate and enables the client organization to fully consider Prediction Markets as a key decision-support tool.
From experience, we know that a successful prediction market [...]

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Set up a blog, get yourself a mobile video phone, and, hop, you’re a journalist competing with CNN, CNBC, MSNBC, FBN, and the BBC.

Written by Chris F. Masse on January 26, 2008 — Leave a Comment

IT blogger Robert Scoble (on the left), holding his Nokia, interviewing Michael Dell at Davos (WEF):

Michael Arrington of TechCrunch took the pic.
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Here’s a Davos video taken with a mobile video phone:

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Davos – World Economic Forum

Written by Chris F. Masse on January 19, 2008 — Leave a Comment

Hey, Davos starts on Monday.
WEF website
And they have a blog, of course.
Twenty20 = Sure Bets and Wildcard scenarios to the year 2020. Nothing on that website, yet, but I’ll be monitoring it.

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What one thing do you think that countries, companies or individuals must do to make the world a better place in 2008?

Written by Chris F. Masse on December 30, 2007 — Leave a Comment

Is there any prediction market answer to the Davos Question? I bet that there isn’t any, because the successes of the prediction markets are incremental and not spectacular. Prediction markets are a tool of convenience —they have no magic in them.
Nevertheless, I propose that we send the boy scout of the prediction market field, Jed [...]

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Chris Masse is bull-shitting. On the paper, NewsFutures is OBVIOUSLY the market leader.

Written by Chris F. Masse on July 22, 2007 — Leave a Comment

That’s what all the people thought, after I published my ranking.
The NewsFutures clients:

The world’s largest steel maker.
CORNING
Display Technologies.

Japan’s largest advertising firm.

Hungary’s leading news weekly.

Voted “most innovative” pharmaceutical company in Fortune’s 2003 and 2004 rankings.

The US packaged foods giant.

Giant U.S. Pharmaceutical.

Leading provider of objective analysis and effective solutions.

One of the world’s leading providers of outsourcing and [...]

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NewsFutures Timeline

Written by Chris F. Masse on March 14, 2007 — 1 Comment

About the NewsFutures history:
- Company founded in March 2000.
- French prediction market “la bourse de l’info” launched in September 2000.
- Hungarian version “Hirbörze” launched in April 2001 (first integration of a prediction exchange in a news media)
- US version launched in November 2001 (co-branded by USA Today – first integration of a prediction exchange in [...]

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World Economic Forum – Annual Meeting – @ Davos, Switzerland – 2007-01-24~28

Written by Chris F. Masse on December 10, 2006 — Leave a Comment

World Economic Forum – Annual Meeting (2007) – @ Davos, Switzerland – 2007-01-24~28

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