Tag Archives: HammerSmith

Open nights for some BetFair customers at HammerSmith

Excellent. Their HammerSmith office (in London, U.K.) is very awesome. It spreads on many stories. The waiting room is impressive. On the right, you have a glass wall that lets you see into the BetFair team who is monitoring the … Continue reading

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IS IT SAFE TO LOCATE A PREDICTION EXCHANGE NEAR A RIVER???

BetFair HQ in Hammersmith, London, England, United Kingdom, European Union At its feet, the river Thames… – - Previously: River rising. Power plant closed. Is the Iowa Electronic Markets at risk? “This is an emergency such as we’ve never seen … Continue reading

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No more anonymized trading data, please. State your source(s).

I think that’s the takeaway from the BetFair blog fiasco. My questions are still unanswered this morning. What data was used to concoct that dithyrambic write-up about the predictive power of the “betting markets” on the 2008 US primaries and … Continue reading

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BetFair HQ in Hammersmith, London, England, United Kingdom, European Union

This is a picture I found out on their corporate website. BetFair occupies only parts of this building. (There’s another building similar to this one, on the left, but you don’t see it because it is not in the frame.) … Continue reading

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