Tag Archives: TechCrunch

BetFair Growing 30%, Easing over the Pond, and Hiring 50 Valley Engineers

BetFair Growing 30%, Easing over the Pond, and Hiring 50 Valley Engineers TechCrunch republishes BetFair’s PR material. No independent analysis in this TechCrunch story. Nothing about problem gambling, for instance. Nothing about InTrade, BetFair’s competitor. TechCrunch = stenographers

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Would Midas Oracle publish internal documents that were stolen from a prediction market company?

TechCrunch is going to publish some internal documents stolen from Twitter. In the past, Midas Oracle has published many things that infuriated some prediction market players: Public facts wrapped up in our sarcastic commentaries. And we will do it again, … Continue reading

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Inkling Markets and HubDub in TechCrunch

- Inkling Markets infiltrated TechCrunch 6 times. – HubDub did that a lot more. Nigel Eccles for President…!!!…

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HUBDUB PUNDIT WATCH: TechCrunch is the bottom of the pool, while VentureBeat and Pat Buchanan are stellar.

I am not surprised at all by the results. Maybe a non-profit organization should sponsor PunditWatch. Robin Hanson (mister “Track Records”), take notice.

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Intense, passionate, consumed with his subject, opinionated, sleep-deprived, forward-thinking, easy to irritate, and apt to air his grudges in public

- The qualification that does not apply to me is in bold: intense passionate consumed with his subject opinionated sleep-deprived forward-thinking easy to irritate apt to air his grudges in public – We’re talking Michael Arrington, of course. -

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TechCrunch is 221 times bigger than Midas Oracle.

TAKEAWAY: We’re smaller, indeed, but we’re not ridiculous at all —startup stories naturally attract a bigger audience than prediction market stories. And I have a grand plan to develop this blog and the two other blogs —I’ll tell you later. … Continue reading

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Meet Michael Arrington of TechCrunch.

Lloyd Grove: I ran into Nick Denton [the owner of Gawker Media, parent company of the Silicon Valley blog ValleyWag.com] last night. What do you think of him? Michael Arrington: I think he’s a total dick. Lloyd Grove: Would you … Continue reading

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MOST INFLUENTIAL SILICON VALLEY BLOGGER RIDES THE PREDICTION MARKET HYPE.

Tech Crunch’s Michael Arrington: [...] The prediction markets, though, are probably the most accurate data when it comes to predicting the actual winner of each primary. Hillary Clinton shows a current 61.3% likelihood of winning, even though she is only … Continue reading

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Is WeatherBill doing well, really??

WeatherBill does so well that TechCrunch has just published two –yes, two– blog posts on it, today (Wednesday, October 17, 2007). Here’s the first one, which basically says that two VCs have just poured $12,5 million dollars in it. Good … Continue reading

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