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Tag Archives: North America
Bet America = Web-based betting on US horse racing
Via Simon Skinner’s comment, here… Bet America: BetAmerica.com is an online race wagering service of Lien Games Racing LLC, in association with Horse Race North Dakota, the licensed operator of North Dakota Horse Park. Licensed, based and regulated in the … Continue reading
Posted in Betting, Exchanges & Markets
Tagged Bet America, BetAmerica, Betting, federal law, Horse Race North Dakota, horse racing, horseracing, Internal Revenue Service, Internet service, licensed operator, Lien Games, Lien Games Racing LLC, North America, North Dakota, North Dakota Horse Park, online race wagering service, Simon Skinner, United States, US horse racing. horse racing, USD, wagering, Web-based betting
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The London School of Economics chose InTrade-TradeSports over BetFair-TradeFair for floating event derivatives on global warming.
The London School of Economics’ Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), located at the center of London (nearby the Waterloo Bridge), chose not to partner with BetFair-TradeFair, the world’s #1 prediction exchange (betting exchange), located west of London (near the Hammersmith … Continue reading
Posted in All Best Posts Ever, Analysis (Industry), Exchange Genesis, Exchanges & Markets, Forecasting (Science & Practice)
Tagged actor, Bali, BetFair, c, Chinese Communist Party, climate change, David Jack, energy intensive, global warming, greenhouse-gas emissions, Hammersmith Bridge, illegal market leader, InTrade, Ireland, Kyoto, London, London School of Economics, London School of Economics' Centre for Economic Perfomance, London School of Economics' Centre for Economic Performance, North America, prediction markets, Ralf Martin, storage technologies, UNFCCC, United Nations, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, Waterloo Bridge
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Ariadne Capital = Global Investment and Advisory Firm
Ariadne Capital: Ariadne Capital is an Investment and Advisory Firm focused on Software and Services, New Media, Communications and Life Services. We are backed by 40 Entrepreneurs who founded the firm in 2000 in order to build the market leading … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Finance
Tagged Advisory Firm Ariadne Capital, Ariadne Capital, Asia, Bert, co-founder, entrepreneur, Europe, GBP, London, North America, venture capital community
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The prediction market world should be flat.
Thomars Friedman’s book, The World Is Flat. — This blog entry by innovation blogger Dominic Basulto (about Indian outsourcing giant Infosys touting a new Think Flat website) makes me think of something. We are in an industry that is compartmented … Continue reading
The PopSci PPX prediction exchange organizes many socially valuable play-money prediction markets.
Popular Science – PopSci’s PPX: Consumer Tech and Entertainment SYMBOL NAME PRICE CHANGE % CHANGE APPLEPC iPhone Increases Apple’s Computer Market Share 52.00 1.00 1.96 BLUBY09 Blu-ray vs. HD-DVD Format War 73.75 -0.75 -1.01 DRMRIP Major Record Labels Drop DRM … Continue reading
Posted in Analysis (Industry), Exchanges & Markets, Market Prices & Probabilities
Tagged Alli, Diet Drug Alli, India's Manned Mission, Internet radio, iPhone, Linux, location, Mac OS X, Major, Major U.S. Hurricane, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, National Football League, North America, Olympics, ORION NASA's Orion, Record Labels Drop, soccer, SPCHOTL Space Hotel, Stem Cells, United States, V-22 Osprey, Viacom, Web Trends
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Addendum on… The ranking of the providers of software for internal prediction markets
Hello Midas Oracle readers, As you have seen, I have published a ranking of the prediction market solution providers to the Fortune-500 firms. It is a ranking based on what I know about their true client list —not what is … Continue reading
Posted in Consulting, Software
Tagged Chiron, market leader, North America, Novartis, Software, the Fortune
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The ranking of the providers of software for internal prediction markets
Ranking of the prediction market solution providers to the Fortune-500 firms. North America #1. NewsFutures #2. Inkling Markets – growing very fast #3. HSX Virtual Markets Europe #1. NewsFutures
Posted in Consulting, Software
Tagged Chris Masse, Emile Servan-Schreiber, Europe, Google, Intel, market leader, Microsoft, North America, Software, Yahoo!
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Emile Servan-Schreiber on learning on Midas Oracle that NewsFutures is no longer the market leader in North America as a software provider for internal prediction markets.
Although I maintain my statement, this blog post is filed in the “humor” post category —and I know that EJSS likes humor. More serious info on this topic soon…
Posted in Humor
Tagged Emile Servan-Schreiber, market leader, North America, Software
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Let’s hope that, one day, …
- BetFair, InTradeSports, MicroSoft and Google let Fortune-500 firms use their software for prediction markets. – Accenture and IBM enter the prediction market industry. – Yahoo!’s Yootopia becomes a success. – Betting exchanges are legal in North America and Continental … Continue reading
Posted in Analysis (Industry)
Tagged BetFair, David Perry, Google, IBM, InTradeSports, Microsoft, North America, prediction markets, Robin Hanson, Yahoo!
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