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Enterprise Prediction Markets = The wisdom of crowds comes to the enterprise.

Here are short excerpts of the Forrester report on enterprise prediction markets and companies that provide software for enterprise prediction markets.
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The Forrester executive summary:
The “wisdom of crowds” is capturing the attention of corporate strategists across the globe, and, as a result, many are now looking to prediction markets — speculative markets in which traders collectively [...]

The best researchers on prediction markets

CFM: Scholars
Check that CFM page for updates. And contact me so I can make additions to the list. (I’ll then re-publish that updated list on Midas Oracle.)
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Michael Abramowicz – Michael B. Abramowicz – (Law School, George Washington University, Washington, D.C., U.S.A.) — Post Archives at Midas Oracle
Bernd H. Ankenbrand – Bernd Ankenbrand – (Lecturer, Witten/Herdecke [...]

Where to find advice on how to set up your enterprise prediction markets

Consultants
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Inkling – URL: Inkling Markets – (Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.)

Adam Siegel — Post Archives at Midas Oracle
Nathan Kontny

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NewsFutures – (Maryland, U.S.A. & Paris, France, E.U.)

Emile Servan-Schreiber — Post Archives at Midas Oracle
Maurice Balick

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Xpree – (U.S.A.)

Mat Fogarty — Post Archives at Midas Oracle

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HP Services – HP Labs – (U.S.A.)

Predicting the future –with games — Introductory article
Information Dynamics [...]

Massachusetts governor’s proposal to send the TradeSports-InTrade traders to jail is foolish.

Steve Roman:
Expect to see more of this. State politicians have a big problem: they’ve made lots of promises and are financially unable to keep all of them. For the states, pension and health care promises made during expansionary times are unsustainable if tax revenue does not keep growing.
There is no discussion of shrinking [...]

Who is behind pmindustry.org?

NetSol:
Domain ID: D149447780-LROR
Domain Name: PMINDUSTRY.ORG
Created On: 19-Oct-2007 11:24:54 UTC
Last Updated On: 19-Oct-2007 11:24:56 UTC
Expiration Date: 19-Oct-2008 11:24:54 UTC
Show underlying registry data for this record
IP Address: 64.124.12.105 (ARIN & RIPE IP search)
IP Location: US(UNITED STATES)-MARYLAND-EDGEWATER
DMOZ no listings
Y! Directory: see listings
Data [...]

Computer-animated game RaceTrax offers the thrill of being at the track with the payout and prizes similar to live horse betting.

RaceTrax, from the Maryland Lottery.

Economists’ Petition on Prediction Markets

Statement on Prediction Markets – (Click here to read the abstract and download the petition from the SSRN site) – by Kenneth J. Arrow, Robert Forsythe, Michael Gorham, Robert Hahn, Robin Hanson, Daniel Kahneman, John O. Ledyard, Saul Levmore, Robert Litan, Paul Milgrom, Forrest D. Nelson, George R. Neumann, Charles R. Plott, Thomas C. Schelling, [...]

NewsFutures is a 100% American company, headquartered in Baltimore, MD, USA.

I got my fact wrong. NewsFutures is actually run from both continents, it is explained on that we-beam-on-all-the-planet page –just updated.
NewsFutures, Inc. operates from Baltimore, MD, and Paris, France.


Addendum: If I were EJSS, I would add a hypnotizing, live effect to the waves beaming on all Planet Earth. Like this:

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