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> The markets didn't take off, they withered. AFAIK they don't have them anymore.

Actually there is a new prediction market at Google now called Gleangen. It seems to be fairly active and flourishing despite not using real $$. Although there is a leaderboard, so perhaps the desire to want to rank in the top 10 is what motivates people to place bets.

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I'm not looking for any corporate secrets, but generally speaking:

* what sort of things can bets be placed on? Real sensitive business stuff, or more mundane things?

You'll have to join to find out! j/k

Both. It could be something mundane like "Fed raises interest rates in 2020" or something company specific like "Nextgen pixel phone display size is > x inches". Generally the company stuff tends not to be the real sensitive stuff and tends to be more about fun/mundane topics.

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