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 U.S., it offers Advance Deposit Wagering on pari-mutuel horse racing by means of the internet, from a [...]
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 Bridge). Instead, the CEP went with Ireland-based InTrade —North America’s illegal market leader, and the [...]
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 companies of the new Millennium. Headquartered in London, our network of Executives, Investors and Partners extends [...]
The prediction market world should be flat.
Thomars Friedman’s book, The World Is Flat.
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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 into two blocks: North American and Europe/Australia. It’s so true that we are using two different [...]
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 [...]
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 It is a ranking based on what I know about their true client list —not what is on their website, which can be either outdated or not yet updated.
#1. HSX Virtual Markets is [...]
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
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…
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 Europe.
- Robin Hanson updates his page on idea futures.
- David Perry of Consensus Point finally gets to publish [...]
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