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Germany favored to win FIFA Women’s World Cup

As of a few hours before game time, the German team is favored at the Inkling public market on the FIFA Women’s World Cup. After Thursday’s surprising victory over the previous favorite, USA, the Brazilians temporarily led the market. (As … Continue reading

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Creating a Prediction Market on Inkling for the Women’s World Cup was Easy!

We’ve talked about setting up public markets on Inkling here before. I just set up a market for predicting the winner of the Women’s World Cup 2007 tournament, which is kicking off in China this weekend and wrapping up on … Continue reading

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Hollywood Stock Exchange’s Alex Costakis makes historical mistake, TOO.

History of the Hollywood Stock Exchange: June 2006: Hollywood Stock Exchange launches the Sports Stock Exchange® with special securities covering the 2006 FIFA World Cup. April 2006: HSX Research wins contract for building Storage Markets, an innovative prediction market platform … Continue reading

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BetFair’s Annual Review 2006: How did the world’s #1 real-money prediction exchange (betting exchange) fare in 2005/2006?

Pretty good, thank you. British betting expert Niall O’Connor reports that “Betfair has announced that during the year to 30 April 2006, it recorded year-on-year revenue growth of 35 per cent to £144.7 million, with profits before tax up to … Continue reading

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