Tag Archives: General Motors

Cash For Clunkers: US taxpayers paid $24,000 per car

Posted on October 29, 2009 by Chris F. Masse

Cash For Clunkers: US taxpayers paid $24,000 per car. Embedded video from CNNMoney.com Video Download this post to see the embedded video above —if your feed reader does not show it to you.

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The truth about CrowdClarity’s extraordinary predictive power (which impresses Jed Christiansen so much)

Posted on September 29, 2009 by Chris F. Masse

Paul Hewitt: At first blush, it appears that we finally have a bona fide prediction market success! If we’re going to celebrate, I’d suggest Prosecco, not Champagne, however. There are a number of reasons to be cautious. These represent only … Continue reading →

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Finally, a positive corporate prediction market case study… —well, according to Jed Christiansen

Posted on September 28, 2009 by Chris F. Masse

Jed Christiansen: To recap, the prediction market beat the official GM forecast (made at the beginning of the month) easily, which isn’t hugely surprising considering the myopic nature of internal forecasting. But the prediction market also beat the Edmunds.com forecast. … Continue reading →

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WordPress, you’re simply the best.

Posted on January 18, 2008 by Chris F. Masse

The IT guy in charge of one of the General Motors sites: I’m the lead developer for the blog.gmnext.com. When we looked to select the best blogging system out there we went through several both closed-source (cheap to fairly expensive) … Continue reading →

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Toyota plans to sell 10.4 million vehicles globally in 2009, another sign of the Japanese automaker’s momentum toward displacing the industry kingpin, General Motors.

Posted on September 1, 2007 by Chris F. Masse

New York Times That would make an interesting public prediction market. Any taker??

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Robert Scoble on the merits of corporate bloggers

Posted on June 10, 2007 by Chris F. Masse

Robert Scoble in the New York Times: [...] Robert Scoble, whose Scobleizer technology blog is among the most well-known, said that more people — including those at the top — were blogging as part of their jobs with major corporations, … Continue reading →

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