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Inkling Markets’ Advisory Board… which does not want to tell its name

Via Daniel Horowitz (Business and Technology Consultant) Inkling Markets’ Advisory Board (curiously named “Friends Of Inkling”): Bo Cowgill, Google Inc. — Product developer, expert on decision markets for Google; creator of Google’s prediction market and co-author of Using Prediction Markets … Continue reading

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PREDICTION MARKETS HAVE ARRIVED: Bloomberg columnist shames India’s government FOR NOT USING prediction markets to forecast demand.

WOW. This is big. Andy Mukherjee: [...] Finally, demand estimation is too important to be left entirely to experts. Companies such as Google Inc. are harnessing the power of prediction markets — which gather information from a large number of … Continue reading

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Bo Cowgill’s masseuse at Google is now a multi-millionaire, thanks to her bucket of stock options.

Photo Credit: Misha Erwitt for The New York Times [About Google Inc.] Internal online discussion groups about personal finance are closely read. I see… Previously: Does Google’s Bo Cowgill get MASSAGES AT WORK, while working on their enterprise prediction markets??

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Enterprise Prediction Markets at Google Inc., the most successful company on Planet Earth

Koleman Strumpf: Bo Cowgill (Google) and Eric Zitzewitz (Commenter) Cowgill briefly described how Google uses prediction markets. The rest of the discussion highlighted the first round of statistical research conducted by Cowgill, Zitzewitz, and Wolfers related to internal trading activity. … Continue reading

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EPS Prediction Markets = Earnings Per Share Prediction Markets — Google

The top 10 most active prediction markets at HedgeStreet: Contracts – Time remaining – Underlaying Delayed Price – Bid – Ask – Last – Change 4PM $100 GBP/USD > 2.0075 4h 13m 2.01370 95.00 100.00 95.00 29% 4PM $100 EUR/USD … Continue reading

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Google creates new market for stock options. Google seeks to help employees value their shares.

Via Google’s Bo Cowgill who has briefly commented on Eric Zitzewitz‘s blog post, MSNBC: Google Inc. employs a lot of brilliant minds, but even smart people have trouble figuring out how much their stock options are really worth. The Mountain … Continue reading

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Are Chris Masse’s Ideas Crazy ENOUGH For Google??

Bloomberg: Google Inc. looks for ideas that are “really crazy” when sizing up potential purchases, the Internet company’s top dealmaker said. “We look at everything very carefully,” Salman Ullah, Google’s director of corporate development, said yesterday in a speech at … Continue reading

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