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WHEN CHRIS MASSE SENDS YOU AN E-MAIL AT WORK, BE ON YOUR GUARD.
- 40% of companies surveyed investigated an email-based violation of privacy or data protection regulations in the past 12 months. – 26% of companies surveyed terminated an employee for violating email policies in the last 12 months. – 23% of … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Ethics, Information Technology, Regulations
Tagged Chris Masse, e-mails, guard, media sharing sites, office, security, United States
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VP conditional probabilities
BetFair is running markets on both who will be the next vice president and who will be nominated by the two parties. As we’ve discussed before in other contexts, one can divide two probabilities like these to obtain a conditional … Continue reading
Posted in All Best Posts Ever, All Guest Authors's Posts, Analysis (Data), Exchanges & Markets, Market Prices & Probabilities, Politics
Tagged 2008 US elections, 2008 US presidential elections, BetFair, Clinton, conditional probabilities, event derivative markets, event derivatives, guard, guard candidate, odds, Politics, prediction markets, probabilities, Republican Party, US elections, US politics, US presidential elections, vice president, vice presidents, VP, VP conditional probabilities
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Demand forecasting systems: Spending a lot on software doesn’t guarantee success.
Product line demand forecasting stands as the proto-typical application for internal prediction markets. Internal prediction markets may have other uses, but the demand forecasting story is probably the most straightforward and has been most often discussed in articles on the … Continue reading
Posted in All Best Posts Ever, All Guest Authors's Posts, Cases, Collective Intelligence - Wisdom Of Crowds, Forecasting (Science & Practice), Internet Marketing - Internet Commerce
Tagged America, chain technology, chairman, CIO, demand forecasting, demand forecasting software, Demand forecasting systems, demand software, Doug, guard, Hamilton, human intelligence, IDC, Nike, Phil Knight, prediction market systems, reporter, sneaker giant, Software, software vendors, software works, Stanford University, still pushing forecasting software, supply chain solutions, supply chain technology, USD, Vicor, Vicor CIO
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WeatherBill contracts are financial instruments, regulated by the CFTC.
— Via Tech Crunch, Weather Bill is now open for business. This is their ABOUT page: WeatherBill sells Weather Contracts to eligible buyers. Weather Contracts can be used to protect your business from adverse weather conditions, by paying you when … Continue reading
Posted in All Best Posts Ever, Betting, Exchanges & Markets, Finance, Hedging & Insurance, Market Contract Statements, Regulations
Tagged Commodities and Futures Trading Commission, EarthSat, eligible buyer, Eric Zitzewitz, federal law, Futures Trading Commission, guard, insurance agent, Jason Ruspini, Professor, retail store owners, United States, USD, Weather Contracts, weather insurance, WeatherBill
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