Delaware County, Pennsylvania, and Maricopa County, Arizona, have adopted policies addressing employee prediction market activity. Officials say the rules are meant to prevent financial conflicts, protect workers from allegations and reassure voters, not respond to evidence that election workers have used the markets. CNBC’s Ananya Chetia reports on how prediction markets are prompting new safeguards and raising questions about nonpublic information and voter trust.

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0:00 Introduction
1:30 Potential conflicts
4:03 Prediction markets
7:18 Influencing elections?

Produced by: Charlotte Morabito
Reporter: Ananya Chetia
Edited by: Andrea Miller, Darren Geeter
Animation: Jason Reginato, Emily Park
Senior Managing Producer: Shawn Baldwin
Additional Footage: Getty Images

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Tesla CEO Elon Musk discusses his vision for his solar roof technology.
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Private security has become a major business as companies invest more in security guards, executive protection, corporate security, surveillance technology and physical security services. CNBC’s Alex Harring goes inside Allied Universal to examine what is driving demand, how technology is reshaping the private security industry and why low pay, high turnover, training and growing responsibilities remain challenges for security guards.

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0:00 Introduction
2:16 Inside Allied Universal
5:00 Demand for security
6:44 Labor force

Produced by: Charlotte Morabito
Reporting by: Alex Harring
Edited by: Erin Black
Camera: Mickey Todiwala
Animation: Jason Reginato, Emily Park, Alisa Stern
Senior Managing Producer: Shawn Baldwin
Additional Footage: Getty Images, Allied Universal

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Walter Driver, CEO of video game app company Scopely, discuss the Apple’s phone application ecosystem and how entertainment and content consumption will change on smartphones.
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A large number of U.S. companies have operations in Ireland, and names such as Apple, Microsoft and Pfizer appear to have taken steps to stow intellectual property in the country to reduce their effective corporate income tax rates.

Members of President Donald Trump’s administration have signaled that some of that activity should return to the states.

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