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Regulations are crippling businesses. — [VIDEO]

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Cantor Fitzgerald, ten years after 9/11 — [VIDEO]

Cantor Fitzgerald, ten years after 9/11.

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Apple’s Genius Bar: full loyalty, no negativity — [SECRET DOCUMENTS]

Apple’s confidential training manuals:

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CrowdCast CEO Mat Fogarty on how his company is helping businesses make better-informed decisions [VIDEO]

Good questions, good answers: Watch the latest business video at video.foxbusiness.com Download this post to watch the video —if your feed reader does not show it to you. External Links: – CrowdCast – CFO Prediction Market – Matt Fogarty’s twitter … Continue reading

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Why BetFair, InTrade, the Hollywood Stock Exchange, etc., should suppress the IT restrictions imposed on their employees.

Jim Finkle: Can you please let the staff use an alternative web browser called FireFox? I just – (applause) – I just moved to the State Department from the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency and was surprised that State doesn’t use … Continue reading

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In most cases, the team (including the best predictors) outshines the best predictor working alone.

I had a question about VentureBeat’s statement, and Leslie Fine has answered it. VentureBeat: As everyone has known since the modern corporation was invented, employees such as executive assistants or production line managers often have better information and more accurate … Continue reading

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The CrowdCast truth that Robin Hanson would debunk if Our Master Of All Universes were not so obsessed with signalling

VentureBeat: As everyone has known [*] since the modern corporation was invented, employees such as executive assistants or production line managers often have better information and more accurate insight than their management. [*] Hmm… Do research scientists really say that … Continue reading

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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. … Continue reading

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