Tag Archives: De Volkskrant

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

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 … Continue reading

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NewsFutures Timeline

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) … Continue reading

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NewsFutures’s Droit de Reponse (Letter to Editor)

Emile Servan-Schreiber of NewsFutures has posted a comment on the Dutch trader’s story: Yes, election night in Holland, Nov 22nd, revealed some technical limitations in the political market we set up for de Volkskrant. There’s nothing like a real-life massive … Continue reading

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Why NewsFutures Sucks – A disgruntled trader’s story

Via reader Jill Peters, a long and detailled blog post from an unhappy NewsFutures real-money trader from Holland. Let’s see whether his criticism is fair —if it’s possible for a third party to judge (we will see). Below is a … Continue reading

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