Tag Archives: NewsFutures CEO

Why InTrade CEO John Delaney, TradeSports acting CEO John Delaney, BetFair CEO David Yu, HubDub CEO Nigel Eccles and NewsFutures CEO Emile Servan-Schreiber should supplicate me to develop my prediction market journalism project

- 200 web visitors (coming from Google) reached my John Edwards post, published yesterday afternoon (ET). – 10% of them followed my links to the 2 HubDub prediction markets on John Edwards. – - Remember that those web stats count … Continue reading

Posted in Analysis (Industry), Internet Marketing - Internet Commerce, Midas Oracle Project, Midas Oracle Statistics, Prediction Journalism | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

STRAIGHT FROM THE DOUBLESPEAK DEPARTMENT: NewsFutures CEO Emile Servan-Schreiber, well known to chase tirelessly the Infidels who dare calling “prediction markets” their damn polling system, is eager to sell the confusion to his clients and whomever would listen.

Emile’s made up a phrase that means nothing (except in his fertile imagination), “a proprietary prediction market variant“ —sounds like a red herring to me. Unlike Consensus Point, Inkling Markets and Xpree, NewsFutures is the only prediction market software vendor … Continue reading

Posted in Consulting, Software | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Bet2Give on CNBC: High impacting media infiltration

CNBC – The Closing Bell – Maria Bartiromo interviewed NewsFutures’ Norris Clark about Bet2Give and about NewsFutures’ enterprise prediction markets. It was great. Great. The Video – The Video If Emile Servan-Schreiber or Norris Clark put the video on YouTube, … Continue reading

Posted in Consulting, Exchanges & Markets | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 1 Comment

Donna Hoffman of the eLab eXchange talks back to Robin Hanson.

Robin Hanson expressed doubts about “crowd-sourcing” (while never mentioning the eLab eXchange by name) in the New York Times article and his blog post (Outputs Require Inputs). Here are two comments: — #1. Emile Servan-Schreiber (NewsFutures CEO) comments… I totally … Continue reading

Posted in Analysis (Industry), Analysis (Meta), Exchange Genesis, Exchanges & Markets, Forecasting (Science & Practice), Internet Marketing - Internet Commerce | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

The definitive proof that Emile Servan-Schreiber, the NewsFutures CEO, is an essential part of the world-wide conspiracy aiming at silencing BetFair.

[This post is filed in the "humor" category, of course. ] — Take a look at the blogroll of the NewsFutures blog, which cites everybody but BetFair: Recent Posts UC Riverside’s eLab eXchange : featuring Competitive Forecasting and Idea Pageants Demise … Continue reading

Posted in Analysis (Industry), Exchanges & Markets, Humor | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Robin Hanson seems to think that the foundations of the eLab eXchange are planted in moving sands.

Robin Hanson in Outputs Require Inputs: [...] Also, every week I see another startup whose business model is to sell info from play money “competitive forecasting” (like prediction markets). (E.g., see yesterday’s New York Times article where I’m quoted). Professionals … Continue reading

Posted in Analysis (Industry), Analysis (Meta), Forecasting (Science & Practice), Humor | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 3 Comments

The close little world of Monsieur Emile Servan-Schreiber

Let’s go through the NewsFutures’ blogroll to see what’s recommended by our French luminary —and what’s not. — RECOMMENDED BY EJSS: Blogs: – Robin Hanson’s group blog on philosophy – (Spot here the promotion for NewsFutures without any disclosure.) — … Continue reading

Posted in Resources - References | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , | 1 Comment

Debunking HSX Alex Costakis’ conspiracy theory

#1. There’s a story covering Inkling Markets and (not extensively) the corporate prediction markets in the Chicago Tribune. Here’s an interesting excerpt: In the real world, the reason people use markets is to make money. If an outcome is accurately … Continue reading

Posted in Analysis (Industry) | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 5 Comments

Were the NewsFutures real-money prediction markets on Dutch elections accurate?

NewsFutures blog post: [...] At first glance, the quality of the market’s vote share predictions were somewhat disappointing compared to the three main polls [...] However, the story changes dramatically if, instead of looking at the predictions just before the … Continue reading

Posted in Analysis (Accuracy & Precision), Exchanges & Markets, Market Expiry, Market Prices & Probabilities | Tagged , , , , , , , | 1 Comment