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Tag Archives: The Guardian
BetFair continues to be lambasted by The Guardian, and for all the good reasons. — [LINKS]
One, they are losing all their good people. Two, they’ve banned the media from their stockholder assembly, which is a guarantee to get horrific press. Thanks for our faithful reader for the links.
Posted in Business, Exchange & Market Management, Exchanges & Markets
Tagged BetFair, Business, management, marketing, Media, P.R., PR, press, public relation, The Guardian, The Sporting Exchange
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TRAFIGURA: The Guardian was served with a gagging order forbidding it from reporting parliamentary business.
“The Guardian is prevented from identifying the MP who has asked the question, what the question is, which minister might answer it, or where the question is to be found. The Guardian is also forbidden from telling its readers why … Continue reading
Posted in Ethics, Journalism
Tagged Carter-Ruck, freedom of speech, Great Britain, Journalism, Media, press, super-injunctions, The Guardian, Trafigura, United Kingdom
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UK’s Guardian lambasts Mr Crystal Balls Nate Silver.
“A less-than-brilliant Oscars for Nate Silver, who used his skills as a baseball statistics nerd to turn his politics blog, FiveThirtyEight.com, into the online hit of last year’s election. Silver predicted the presidential outcome with eerie precision, and gamely crunched … Continue reading
The Guardian now treats BetFair as a monopoly.
- The Guardian on the BetFair premium charges, the privatization of the BetFair forum, and BetFair’s monopoly. – [Our previous story.] – The Financial Times on the BetFair prediction market(s) about the next UK general elections.
#1 —above The Guardian… and far above BetFair.
- – UPDATE: – PREVIOUSLY: BetFair impose new “Premium Chargesâ€â€¦ Do BetFair gag the critics, too? UPDATE: They announce a Q&A.
Posted in Internet Marketing - Internet Commerce, Midas Oracle Statistics
Tagged bet exchanges, BetFair, BetFair charges, BetFair costs, BetFair fees, BetFair Forum, BetFair Premium Charges, betting exchanges, betting markets, censorship, Chris Masse's manhood, Ethics, event derivative exchanges, event derivative markets, Google, Google Search, Google Web Search, Internet Marketing, prediction exchanges, prediction markets, Search Engine Optimization, search engine results, Search Engines, SEO, The Guardian, The Sporting Exchange, transaction charges, transaction costs, transaction fees
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Some vocal event derivative traders reject the new BetFair “premium charges” —as a matter of principle.
- PREVIOUSLY: BetFair impose new “Premium Chargesâ€â€¦ Do BetFair gag the critics, too? UPDATE: They announce a Q&A.
Posted in Betting, Ethics, Exchange & Market Management, Exchanges & Markets, Internet Marketing - Internet Commerce, Market Transaction Costs
Tagged bet exchanges, BetFair, BetFair charges, BetFair costs, BetFair fee structure, BetFair fees, BetFair Forum, BetFair Premium Charges, betting exchanges, betting markets, censorship, Ethics, event derivative exchanges, event derivative markets, prediction exchanges, prediction markets, The Guardian, The Sporting Exchange, transaction charges, transaction costs, transaction fees
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BetFair impose new “Premium Charges”, and their very active traders are up in arms. – Plus, do BetFair gag the critics?
My analysis of this PR debacle: BetFair has a very complex information technology system, which is very costly, making BetFair less profitable than the fixed-odds betting operators (the big British bookmakers). They attack the problem with a dual approach: they … Continue reading
Posted in Analysis (Industry), Ethics, Exchange & Market Management, Exchanges & Markets, Internet Marketing - Internet Commerce, Market Transaction Costs
Tagged bet exchanges, BetFair, BetFair blog, BetFair charges, BetFair costs, BetFair fee structure, BetFair fees, BetFair Forum, BetFair Premium Charges, BetFair Q & A, betting exchanges, betting markets, censorship, David Yu, de facto monopolies, Ethics, event derivative exchanges, event derivative markets, monopolies, prediction exchanges, prediction markets, The Guardian, The Sporting Exchange, transaction charges, transaction costs, transaction fees
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Nick Davis’ effort to clean up British horse racing
The Guardian Nick Davis’ thread on the BetFair forum … that started the grass-root campaign. – Thanks to Betting Market and BetFair for the deep links. -
Posted in Ethics, Exchanges & Markets, Regulations
Tagged BetFair, British horse racing, Nick Davis, prediction markets, The Guardian
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Tennis is not systematically nor institutionally corrupt. There is no evidence of a link to the Mafia.
Only 45 suspicious tennis matches out of the hundreds of thousands of matches played over the last five years. That’s peanuts. – Via Steve Roman Bloomberg New York Times The Times (of London) The Guardian – Previously: The Mark Davies … Continue reading