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Forex affiliate programs: will Forex Helvetia affiliate program be successful?

[ Predicted ] Fully successful (30% or more) (55% chance)
There are two other major online forex affiliate programs. will Forex Helvetia affiliate program be successful? Successful is quantified as market share in the forex affiliate arena. A market share of ...
[ Closed ] on 2009-01-31 EST, Unanswered
  0 News 1 Comments Report forexaffiliatep forexaffiliatep (*)

Will Cuil (search engine) be acquired in 2008?

[ Predicted ] status quo (86% chance)
Cuil (pronounced "cool", according to the creators) is a search engine that organizes web pages by content and displays relatively long entries along with thumbnail pictures for many results. It claims...
[ Closed ] on 2009-01-01 EST, Unanswered
  7 News 4 Comments Report zhou-laoli zhou-laoli (206)

Buy Out Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC) in 2008?

[ Predicted ] Status quo (73% chance)
The money CIBC raised in January has quickly been claimed by the $6.5-billion in writedowns taken in the past year related to the U. S. credit crisis. More writedowns are coming this quarter. How much ...
[ Closed ] on 2008-12-01 EST, 1 Ziibos Answered
  240 News 2 Comments Report kimbandyn kimbandyn (328)

When will Microsoft integrate Powerset semantic search into Live Search?

[ Predicted ] after Q4 2008 or never (61% chance)
Looks like Microsoft is taking a completely different approach in expanding its web search after the failed attempt to acquire Yahoo. This time Microsoft decides to get the next hot thing in the compu...
[ Closed ] on 2009-01-01 EST, Unanswered
  20 News 4 Comments Report Homer Homer (*)

Will Sprint Nextel Be Acquired in 2008?

[ Predicted ] None of the above (specify) (77% chance)
Back in May, there was a rumor that T-Mobile would acquire Sprint. With Sprint Nextel (S) sorely in need of a capital injection, one company to watch is South Korean wireless operator SK Telecom (SKM)....
[ Closed ] on 2009-01-01 EST, Unanswered
  7 News 3 Comments Report banker banker (*)

Will TechCrunch be Acquired before 2009?

[ Predicted ] No acquisition (65% chance)
Is TechCrunch the latest tech blog to put up a "For Sale" sign in the window? AOL has approached it in July but no deal. TechCrunch is a blog about Web 2.0 products & companies, many of the posts wr...
[ Closed ] on 2009-01-01 EST, Unanswered
  53 News 1 Comments Report quo-liandai quo-liandai (236)
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the world's largest and highest-energy particle accelerator complex, intended to collide opposing beams of protons (one of several types of hadrons) with very high ki...
[ Scored ] on 2008-09-23 EDT
  3 News 2 Comments Report adue adue (93)

Google acquires Digg before end of Aug 2008

[ End Result ] No, Digg remains independent
According to reports by TechCrunch and numerous other reports based on that, Digg is currently in negotiation with Google to be acquired in the $200 million range. Whether this report is accurate or n...
[ Scored ] on 2008-09-02 EDT
  0 News 9 Comments Report Guru Guru (*)

Will MS successfully acquire Yahoo by July?

[ End Result ] No the deal is canceled
It is not a rumor this time. Microsoft has offered to buy the search engine company Yahoo for $44.6b in cash and shares. Yahoo has been struggling in recent years to compete with Google, which has also...
[ Scored ] on 2008-07-08 EDT
  47 News 13 Comments Report jiipy jiipy (*)
Now the deal with Yahoo is temporary over. Baidu, the Chinese Google, seems to be the best prey of Microsoft. Comparing Yahoo and Baidu, MS would see least overlapping products and markets with Baidu. ...
[ Scored ] on 2008-07-03 EDT
  1 News 4 Comments Report Arthur Arthur (*)

Who will Acquire Powerset by Oct 2008?

[ End Result ] Microsoft
Powerset.com is a natural language search engine. A San Francisco-based company, Powerset was founded in 2005 and is funded by Foundation Capital, Founders Fund, Paperboy Ventures, and a number of ange...
[ Scored ] on 2008-07-01 EDT
  3 News 3 Comments Report nokia nokia (*)
http://money.cnn.c... "No news isn't always good news. Four days have passed since the expiration of Microsoft's deadline for Yahoo to accept its buyout offer or face a hostile takeover." It makes ...
[ Scored ] on 2008-05-12 EDT
  7 News 7 Comments Report goog goog (*)
http://blogs.zdnet... One of Yahoo's best arguments for getting Microsoft to raise its offer to acquire the company - the portal's stake in Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba - is in jeopardy courtesy o...
[ Scored ] on 2008-05-08 EDT
  11 News 8 Comments Report humme humme (*)
Merrill Lynch analysts told the Kansas City Star today that Deutsche Telekom, owner of T-Mobile USA, might be considering a takeover of Sprint in an attempt to prevent a price war between the mobile ca...
[ Scored ] on 2008-05-01 EDT
  9 News 4 Comments Report goog goog (*)

Who is the Next Boss of Digg.com?

[ End Result ] No one buys out Digg
User-generated news site Digg has been working with influential investment bank Allen & Co. for a few months now, and pitching big tech and media companies on a sale. It is NOT a happy news for Digg's...
[ Scored ] on 2008-06-02 EDT
  13 News 13 Comments Report Snowman Snowman (*)