So how old were you when you started placing bets?
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Zal Bilimoria is placing bets on biology "eating the world."
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People placing bets must be at least 21 years old.
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Consider us placing bets on which actress will have the honor.
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Baidu has been placing bets on future technologies, including driverless cars.
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Some big venture capital firms are now placing bets on Apeel.
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Augmented reality and autonomy are also areas where Apple is placing bets.
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Bookmakers in the U.K. are placing bets on the royal baby's name.
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Sure beats placing bets on baby weights or doing Gerber food tastings.
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Placing bets beyond the venture hubs of New York and Silicon Valley
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Facebook is placing bets on owning the next hardware play: virtual reality.
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Dink, for example, is simply barred from placing bets at any Caesar's properties.
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The company is placing bets on a number of new businesses and technologies.
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He said it was "almost like [Bannon was] placing bets" during the primaries.
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Team owners, VC investors are placing bets on teams and infrastructure in the space.
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Wendy even once saw people placing bets as to when Desmond would kill himself.
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As for what's next, we're placing bets and throwing tie-dye into the ring.
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Placing bets both before and after makes it possible to lock in a profit.
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But pretty soon, the world's most venerable exchanges will let you start placing bets.
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Now traders are placing bets on how high the stock can go from here.
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We've talked to top investors about where they're placing bets in the nascent sector.
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Each and every one is actively defending their core businesses while placing bets on the future.
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There was this woman walking around during the reception placing bets on when they would divorce.
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The Super Bowl has become such an event that even the animal kingdom is placing bets.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Options traders were placing bets this week that shares of Snap Inc (SNAP.
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If you are placing bets mainly on horses at bigger prices, you will be flagged up.
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Some of the industry's biggest companies are placing bets that those two areas are ripe this year.
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Everywhere you look, manufacturers are placing bets on different technologies they insist will provide the ultimate picture.
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From the red carpet looks to placing bets on the big winners, it's such a festive time.
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But where guests would normally be eating, drinking and placing bets, the casino floor now sits empty.
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And there is the reality that plenty of people who stay in Alabama are placing bets already.
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Media, sports, and tech companies, like Fox, the NBA, and FanDuel, are already placing bets in the space.
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"They call that 'stooping,'" Buffett explains, noting that novices were placing bets at the beginning of racing season.
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Other fans have been placing bets on who will be the lone survivor of the horrors at Mott Manor.
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Nigerian betting shops often act as social hubs where customers can watch soccer free of charge while placing bets.
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The Bank of England isn't taking nominations yet, but that hasn't stopped people from offering names and placing bets.
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Before placing bets on a meteorological marmot, it would be wise to consult the research by our friends at DNAinfo.
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The space race in the U.S. has also caught the attention of international entrepreneurs who are placing bets, as well.
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We've been placing bets for months on which beauty brand would sync up for a collab with the Disney franchise.
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Tweeting, texting, taking pictures, checking other scores, placing bets – all seem to take priority for a surprising number of supporters.
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By Tuesday morning, Soulja Boy was trending on Twitter and fans were placing bets on who would win in a fight.
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Emanuel and other analysts say investors are placing bets on the election early, in this presidential cycle, relative to other years.
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She surprised LuAnn (de Lesseps) D'Agostino with the news everyone was placing bets on whether The Countess' upcoming wedding would even happen.
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Some of the country's largest internet companies — including ride-hailing giant Didi itself — are placing bets on this type of aggregation service.
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If experienced workers are less inclined to stay through another economic cycle, younger workers may already be placing bets on other careers.
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Dear Watchers, One of the dark delights of fall TV used to be placing bets on which show would get canceled first.
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Others, like Iowa, require bettors to register in person at casinos placing bets online, which can also limit the audience for gambling.
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Both Mr. Robbins and Mr. Ackman then are consistently faring worse than their peers when it comes to placing bets on stocks.
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Traders are placing bets on whether the Fed will be forced to change course by a slowing economy and swooning stock market.
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With Lyft's initial public offering on Friday, and Uber's expected in the coming months, investors are effectively placing bets on autonomous vehicles.
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Bookmakers in the U.K. and Ireland are placing bets on what could happen during President-elect Donald Trump's time in the White House.
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More people are placing bets over whether President Trump will be impeached on internet betting sites in the United States and United Kingdom.
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Ignore advisers gleefully predicting another euro crisis that Britain can exploit; placing bets on imminent disaster is not the way to win friends.
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Goldman is focused on catering to clients rather than placing bets on price moves, he added, noting that trends are hard to predict.
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So far this year, startups in digital health have raised more than $10 billion from investors placing bets on the future of healthcare.
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Placing bets will be done on mobile devices, fueled and endorsed by the lawmakers and sports officials who opposed it for so long.
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Folks were placing bets on what his name would be -- the favorite was Arthur -- but it's clear now ... he's the perfect lil' Louis.
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And, now we're placing bets on which celebrity will be the next to go public about his or her love for the unconventional animal.
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But given Beijing's push to clean up the country's financial sector, she's placing bets on larger lenders that are well-funded and better-managed.
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Mr. Arora struck more than a dozen deals, placing bets on technology, telecommunications and media companies in India, Indonesia and Singapore, among other countries.
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Queen Elizabeth's dressmaker says she puts decoy hats on display to stop staff from placing bets on what color she'll wear to Royal Ascot.
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Top executives in the U.S. and around the world are not placing bets that the U.S.-China trade war will be resolved anytime soon.
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While J.P. Morgan doesn't have a dedicated venture capital arm, it's still placing bets and has been especially focused on scaling its payments business.
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Kairo's father is a Trotskyist prone to delivering stilted lectures on the rise of Sinhalese chauvinism and placing bets on horse races in England.
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The investment firm has been busy placing bets across a number of different biologically based solutions to reduce the emissions associated with agriculture and cultivation.
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Ross: Which raises a question with which to see us out: If you were indeed placing bets, what October or early-November surprise still lurks?
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In recent years, more private companies have joined the fray of corporate venture capitalists, and some are placing bets almost exclusively on their own alumni.
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From April 3653, businesses in the U.K. will be barred from accepting credit cards from consumers placing bets, Britain's government-run Gambling Commission said Tuesday.
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Now, investment funds are working with lawyers to pore over agreements to make sure they are placing bets on deals that are unlikely to come apart.
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We do this by placing bets on precisely which trends we think will catch on with the masses and then end up in fast-fashion retailers.
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While this may not sound too dissimilar to say very early stage investing in other start-ups, the people placing bets on ICOs are usually unsophisticated investors.
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In the early stages, sports betting outside of Nevada will likely be limited to physically placing bets at a sports book at a casino or race track.
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With congressional primaries wrapped up in another eight states, donors who have been waiting to make campaign contributions can now begin placing bets on their party's nominees.
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From the United States Civil War through 1940, Americans were placing bets on the presidential election on stock exchanges, a practice that consistently favored the eventual winner.
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On day five of business at the Chinese-owned New MGM casino last month, Chinese gamblers could be seen placing bets of $100,000 in the V.I.P. room.
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Son sees himself as the ultimately patient investor and speaks of placing bets on iconic companies and industries based on a 300-year vision for the world.
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Given the significance of today being the Queen's birthday and Easter, many have been placing bets that today will be the day the royal baby will be born.
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The Scranton office gets into placing bets against each other, one of which is whether or not Creed will notice if his apple is replaced with a potato.
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This collapse is thanks in part to rising interest rates that have investors looking for a more stable return profile than placing bets on high-growth technology companies.
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Even under Howell's announcement video, a few commenters are already placing bets as to when he's going to give up and return to his old not-on-fire self.
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BUCHAREST, March 1 (Reuters) - Romania's football federation has banned Marius Sumudica, coach of league leaders FC Astra, for six months for placing bets on several domestic and international matches.
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For more than four hours, Mr. McCain stood at a craps table, merrily placing bets and rolling the dice as he occasionally paused to take a selfie with admirers.
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Billionaire Lee Ainslie is looking to 'take advantage of the panic and volatility' — and his $9 billion hedge fund firm is placing bets on managed care and tech stocks
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Here's why startups are placing bets on their former coworkersAltman, who does some angel investing on the side, might be flexible on the type of startup his company funds.
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But perhaps more interesting is that the effort included a test to see whether a group of scientists could predict, via placing bets, which studies would replicate or not.
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As bitcoin jumped more than 0003 percent this month alone and quintupled so far in 2017, it has attracted more and more speculators placing bets based on hunches and rumors.
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As bitcoin jumped more than 20 percent this month alone and quintupled so far in 2017, it has attracted more and more speculators placing bets based on hunches and rumors.
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This is done to prevent staff from placing bets on what color she'll wear, Angela Kelly writes in her new tell-all book about her time working with Her Majesty.
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And though you may think this trend isn't for everyday wear, we're placing bets now that it'll trickle down to the Forever 21 and Zaras of the world in no time.
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" His proposal involves specific recommendations under the three pillars of "protecting young people and those suffering from gambling addiction, protecting the integrity of the game, and protecting consumers and individuals placing bets.
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The league said its investigators found no indication that Shaw used inside information or compromised any game, and his coaches and teammates were unaware that he was placing bets on N.F.L. games.
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While some on Wall Street are calling Icahn's move the next "big short," placing bets on store and mall closings by shorting an index called CMBX 6, others are debunking the trade.
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The scene is built around LuAnn and Tom playing tennis and the pair pretending not to be competitive about the sport, despite the fact they're placing bets and "playfully" arguing about the score.
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And betting on the activity, which is basically placing bets on other people gaming, has grown to $8 billion in total bets annually, and it even has a Reddit forum dedicated to it.
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Sabrdaran denied tipping Afsarpour, who said he had been placing bets on InterMune for several months after analyzing its public statements and believing the company was likely to get EU approval for Esbriet.
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The rare district shuffle has also touched off a flood of campaign donations from out-of-state donors from both parties who are placing bets from around the country on vulnerable House seats.
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Binary options involve placing bets on whether the value of a financial asset - such as a currency, commodity or stock - will rise or fall in a fixed time, sometimes as short as a minute.
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HOUSTON (Reuters) - Investors are placing bets that demand for U.S. energy pipelines, storage and processing facilities will outstrip supply in the next few years as the resurgence in shale oil and gas production increases.
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The prosecutors said that a criminal organization with ties in Belgium and Armenia has been bribing professional tennis players to fix matches since 2014, letting the criminals to rake in profits by placing bets.
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They gave six players — two on each platform, iOS, Android and desktop — $1153 each to test the service by placing bets on games in real time, even allowing them to to keep their winnings.
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If you're a faithful follower, recreating the dishes at home and placing bets with friends over which of the contestants will be named the top chef, it might be time to get even more involved.
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But the logistical difficulty of placing bets on the exchange (particularly before internet access became widespread), along with the low wagering ceiling, limited it to trivial volumes of a few hundred thousand dollars a year.
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SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Aircraft engine makers are placing bets that could reshape their industry for decades as Boeing weighs a novel design for an airplane with 240-250 seats - a neglected area of the jet market.
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At times it feels like placing bets: Yeah, I think my kid is fine—I'm pretty sure she won't fall off that jungle gym, or that it wouldn't be that bad even if she did.
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Music's biggest night, the Grammys, is coming up this weekend, and whether you're placing bets on an office pool, or just want to know who is going to win in advance, Refinery29 has got you covered.
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Other nominees include Marina de Tavira (Roma), Emma Stone (The Favourite), and Rachel Weisz (The Favourite.) While Weisz is still considered a contender by most placing bets, Stone and de Tavira are not favored to win.
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In a related civil lawsuit, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission said that Mickelson at one point bought Dean Foods' stock on a recommendation by Walters, to whom he owed money after placing bets with him.
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For starters, what the queen wears to each day of the event tends to get people talking, with people even placing bets on what color the monarch's hat will be at certain days of Royal Ascot.
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In Arkansas, the state university system approved a policy that barred employees and students who were "directly associated with a team, student-athlete or other participant" in a sporting event from placing bets in some instances.
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As Super Bowl LII kicks off Sunday, oddsmakers will be placing bets on whether the New England Patriots will roll to their sixth championship win — or whether the Philadelphia Eagles can pull off a major upset.
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He has gradually been placing bets on businesses — a solar company in California, a utility in Britain, an electric car-charging outfit in the Netherlands — intended to reduce the overall carbon content of the energy Shell sells.
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Well, so I don't have the exact number but our research department presented me with some data a couple weeks ago that said that something like 60-70 percent of people placing bets are already watching ESPN.
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The rise of "thematic investing" — placing bets on themes like Cyber Security ETF or Cloud Computing or Airlines — makes it perfectly feasible that someone might float a "Trump ETF" consisting of stocks that may benefit from his presidency.
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The purchase of the heavily shorted stock was a wake-up call for hedge funds placing bets against the stock market: there's still a lot of cheap capital out there looking to be deployed before rates go higher.
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Short-sellers were placing bets on Tuesday that Snap would continue to fall, representing about 2.4 percent of trading volume in the stock by midday despite it being one of the most expensive to borrow on Wall Street.
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But placing bets of $100 or more in video poker, "this guy was gambling high," said Anthony Curtis, a former professional gambler and currently the owner and publisher of Las Vegas Advisor, a website covering the casino business.
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SoftBank invests $250 million in online small-biz lender Kabbage This little-known start-up is disrupting Facebook, Google and Amazon Bill and Melinda Gates are placing bets on this biotech in the race to develop a Zika vaccine
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With an array of out-of-the-box options to choose from, we found ourselves placing bets on the one that would catch on next, becoming the next It piece to filter through luxury retailers and fast-fashion stores, alike.
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William Hill was quick to embrace Britons' changing gambling habits, such as placing bets online using smartphones and tablets, often "in play" while watching sport like soccer on TV, but its lead has vanished as its apps failed to retain punters.
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Given its home in Los Angeles, the company is also placing bets around the rise of eSports and gaming as a new pillar of entertainment and it's looking abroad at opportunities in India, according to Mandal and managing director, Jamie Montgomery.
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High-profile venture capitalists such as Vinod Khosla, Marc Benioff, and the venture arms of well-known healthcare companies, including the Mayo Clinic and Johnson & Johnson, are all placing bets on microbiome startups that combine microbiome analysis with digital tracking.
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Andreessen Horowitz, already having bet big on Roblox's $150 million Series G last month, has been quite active in placing bets on smaller gaming startups in the past year or so, most of which have been made by GP Andrew Chen.
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The American training at the Yavoriv base in western Ukraine is focused on forging a disciplined, professional military from the mix of volunteer groups that first fought the Russian incursion, rather than placing bets on any high-tech weapons systems.
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So-called secondary market investors are already placing bets that mergers and acquisitions will pick up in the oil patch by snapping up shares sold by publicly listed energy companies that could use the money to acquire assets at a discount.
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Billionaire Lee Ainslie is looking to 'take advantage of the panic and volatility' — and his $9 billion hedge fund firm is placing bets on managed care and tech stocksCommodity funds are shining as stocks tank, while momentum strategies are getting pummeled.
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Ladbrokes is placing bets on everything about Eugenie's big day, from what color Queen Elizabeth will wear (pink is the current favorite at 5/2) to what designer the wives of Prince William and Prince Harry will chose for the family occasion.
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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in a related lawsuit said Mickelson, who has won three Masters pro golf titles, at one point bought Dean Foods' stock on a recommendation by Walters, to whom he owed money after placing bets with him.
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Apple's investment comes as auto and technology industry executives and investors are placing bets that self-driving car systems, electric vehicles and ride sharing will eventually converge to allow companies to sell rides in self-driving vehicles, generating revenue day and night.
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In a related lawsuit, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission said Mickelson, who has won three Masters golf titles, also at one point bought Dean Foods' stock on a recommendation by Walters, to whom he owed money after placing bets with him.
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Still, the group's diversified strategy of placing bets across prescription drugs, vaccines and consumer health is backed by Simon Gergel, chief investment officer at Allianz Global Investors, who sees it as a hedge against growing pricing pressures in the traditional pharmaceutical industry.
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The French federation did award a wild card into the men's qualifying tournament to Constant Lestienne, a French player who was banned for seven months last year for placing bets on 220 matches through online accounts between February 2012 and June 2015.
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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in a related lawsuit last month said Mickelson, who has won three Masters golf titles, also at one point bought Dean Foods' stock on a recommendation by Walters, to whom he owed money after placing bets with him.
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In fact, one suspects the couple have overestimated their own wits and wiles among such worldly, cynical people: They seem to think this is all some marvelous game of skill, that playing at history is like placing bets at a casino table in Barry Lyndon.
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Since at least the eighteenth century, though, a lot of people have followed sports mainly for the purpose of placing bets, and there is little question that the creation of reliable statistical summaries of players' performances had something to do with the gambling market.
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But his American opponent has been talking up the chances of another haunting finish, telling Business Insider two months ago that he'll end Pacquiao's career, and adding this week that he'll be placing bets on flooring the Filipino in the first, second, or seventh rounds this weekend.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - The chances of a contested Republican presidential convention slid to their lowest in more than three weeks on Wednesday after Donald Trump swept to a critical victory in New York's primary, according to PredictIt, an online market for placing bets on U.S. and world politics.
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Piirimets was ejected from the Open last year for what is known as courtsiding, a term for collecting immediate data about the scores of tennis matches in person and then using the information to make wagers, either by placing bets directly or by transmitting the information to someone else.
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There are still plenty of fun and entertaining hijinks to be had, whether it's the employees struggling to keep corporate from finding an employee's severed finger, or Mateo searching the store for an "I Voted" sticker, or Jonah and Garrett placing bets on which of the seasonal employees will quit first.
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As the Hanoi summit between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un opens, Korea-watchers are placing bets about the anticipated success or failure of the event, typically defining "success" as the United States securing an ironclad agreement on the steps North Korea will take toward achieving denuclearization.
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Read more: Manny Pacquiao's next opponent Keith Thurman has pushed back against Deontay Wilder's controversial comments, saying boxing is 'not about killing people'According to Boxing Scene, Thurman said he'll be placing bets on finishing the fight early but is yet to do so as he wants Pacquiao's fans to inflate the odds.
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"Options traders remain focused on downside risks following a 30 percent slide in WTI," Erik Norland, senior economist at commodities exchange CME Group wrote in a note, referring to the higher number of traders who have placed positions that would profit from a further fall in crude prices than those placing bets on a rising market.
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Monday night's Grammy Awards are no different: Sure, we're all placing bets on just how many trophies Taylor Swift and Kendrick Lamar will take home, and we're already getting emotionally prepared for what will undoubtedly be a tear-jerking performance from Adele, but we also can't wait to see who shows up wearing what (and with whom!).
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Consider "The Great Sermon Handicap," a Jeeves-and-Bertie-Wooster story about placing bets on which village vicar will deliver the longest sermon; understanding the story means understanding making book and handicapping horses, and also why village names like Upper Bingley (and Lower Bingley) and Gandle-by-the-Hill and Little Clickton-in-the-Wold are funny, under the circumstances.
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How Pinterest will escape the advertising traps that snared other social media platformsBill and Melinda Gates are placing bets on this biotech in the race to develop a Zika vaccineThe rise of the world's next great superpower Atti was especially proud of his company's ability to challenge the status quo in markets where many are still unsure of the power and potential that semiconductor chips wield.
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HARD HATS FOR HEDGE FUNDS AS MERGERS COLLAPSE | More than $400 billion worth of corporate mergers have been withdrawn in the United States since the beginning of January — almost three times the previous record for the same period, Leslie Picker reports in DealBook The broken deals have whipsawed hedge funds that focus on merger arbitrage, placing bets on the likelihood that deals will be completed.
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While some are accusing Trump Jr. of collusion, others are getting out their wallets: PaddyPower, an Ireland-based betting site, has seen more users placing bets on President Trump being impeached before the end of his first term, bringing the site's total odds of the President being shuffled out of the White House by 267 up to 13% — the highest it's ever been, according to company spokesperson Lee Price.
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Read more:Top venture investors say these 11 tech startups in the red-hot cannabis sector are set to blow up this yearTop investors say these 11 buzzy, under-the-radar consumer cannabis startups are set to raise fresh rounds and blow up this yearCBD companies were courted hard by a unit of US Bank — but they got ghosted despite having a 100% legal businessTop cannabis investors reveal where they're placing bets, but say there's 'pain to come' in the crowded CBD space
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We got an exclusive look at the pitch deck buzzy marijuana tech startup Headset used to raise $212 million and ink deals with Nielsen and DeloitteTop cannabis investors reveal where they're placing bets, but say there's 'pain to come' in the crowded CBD spaceA New York private equity firm founded by JPMorgan and Guggenheim veterans is raising the largest-ever fund dedicated to the booming marijuana industryWe got an exclusive look at the pitch deck two Ivy League MBAs used to raise a $275 million seed round for a cannabis-infused beverage startupBiotech, CBD drinks, and a hot vape company: Here's where all the top marijuana VCs are looking to write checks this yearThe CEO of one of the hottest marijuana-vape startups says he's talking to bankers about an IPO in 2194Marijuana M&AThe $680 million MedMen-PharmaCann merger just blew up in a 'surprise' and experts say it's a sign of pain to come for cannabis dealmakingArizona Iced Tea is pushing into legal cannabis.
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