Bambi Francisco left CNBC’s MarketWatch last year to start Vator.tv, a highly entertaining video-based website dedicated to vetting pitches from innovator. This week, her show took a deep look at NewsFutures’ public prediction exchange (not our enterprise solutions business). Paul Martino, whose company Aggregate Knowledge is about predicting behavioral outcomes based on the aggregate actions [...]
Entries from April 2008
April 21, 2008
Financial Times writes about Bet2Give
Over the weekend, the Financial Times published a great article about America’s favorite charity-driven prediction market: our very own Bet2Give. Exploring the intersection between philanthropy and online betting requires dedication and persistence, which is another way of saying that the value proposition isn’t immediately obvious to everyone, but the FT’s article highlights an exciting new [...]
April 18, 2008
Red Herring in the Mediterranean
I had the honor this week of being a surprise keynote interviewee at the Red Herring Europe 2008 conference in Malta. Alex Vieux, the Herring’s inspirational publisher, made the impromptu decision to bring me on stage to educate the audience, filled with brilliant young entrepreneurs and venture capitalists, about the concept and virtues of [...]
April 18, 2008
How InterContinental Hotels Group Innovates with NewsFutures
Every business needs to innovate regularly, but betting on new ideas is always risky and the failure rate is high. The New York Times recently ran a detailed article about how companies can better their odds of harnessing and selecting winning new ideas, by turning to prediction markets and the wisdom of crowds.
The InterContinental Hotels [...]
