Overall, most trends are negative, and must be reversed.
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Like most trends in IT, cloud computing is a combination of a number of underlying trends that have long been in the works, a kind of evolutionary blend of our previous successes and failures.
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Most food trends come and go as quickly as the pop-up spaces that host them.
Yet, the celebrity culture masks one of the most worrying trends in society in recent years.
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"The most notable trends are that a team level there was substantial improvement, and that hasn't been the case over the years, " Lapchick said.
Gamification is near the peak of Gartner Hype Cycles and like most new trends and technologies, the initial hype surrounding the trend creates unrealistic expectations for success and many poor implementations follow.
Hyperconnectivity exaggerates some of the most destabilising trends in the modern workplace: the decline of certainty (as organisations abandon bureaucracy in favour of adhocracy), the rise of global supply chains and the general cult of flexibility.
One of the most interesting trends popping up in the conversation with Mr. Palli was that two years ago, an iPhone user was worth more than twice as much as an Android smartphone user in revenue generation.
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"The company plans to capitalize on two of the most important trends in asset management: the growth of indexing and the emergence of ETFs as the preferred vehicle for investing in index funds, " Steinberg was quoted in a press release announcing the funding for his new firm, then called Index Development Partners.
Most of these trends will continue to unfold regardless of government intervention.
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Look at what it thinks are the most important consumer trends.
In short, with the exception of the consolidation seen in July and August, most of the trends have been one-way affairs, with little, if any, countertrend action.
Whirlpool is an interesting investment at this point in time because it plays off of two of the biggest and most important economic trends impacting the market.
Not only is it the spearhead of the city and country, the street is becoming a focal point for some of the most cutting edge trends and cultural initiatives in the region.
Of course, a major global economic catastrophe, or some new breakthrough in energy or agricultural technology, could bring prices down precipitously, but for the most part demographic trends seem likely to favor commodity producers over the coming decade or two.
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Going forward, LSI is firmly established as a central player in some of the most critical growth trends in computing, including cloud, Big Data, mobile networking and flash, with products that are bringing exciting new levels of speed and productivity to our customers.
Unlike dress hemlines, which go up and down with fashion trends, most computing technology started huge and gets smaller.
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With three decades at the cutting edge of popular music, Eno is more qualified than most to predict future trends.
David Rolfe says most investors view such trends as just good fun.
Lazear pointedly stated that he expects strong growth due to high productivity and low taxes, adding that "two trends are most important when looking at last year's economic picture and the scene as we move into 2007"--the labor market and export growth.
The press conference at Xintiandi in Shanghai last Friday where we unveiled our 2012 Forbes China Rich List (click here for the new list) included a long discussion about some of the most important Chinese wealth trends of the past decade.
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NTIA, in collaboration with the Census Bureau, conducts some of the most extensive survey work on broadband adoption trends in the U.S. Our most recent survey, in October of 2010, found that 72 percent of White households nationwide subscribed to broadband, compared with only 57 percent of Hispanic households.
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However, Bio Trends notes that most docs have prescribed both brands, suggesting they are still experimenting.
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Enterprise social networking is one of the most exciting and valuable technology trends today for good reason.
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Because people expect the most popular topics become Twitter Trends, the company comes off looking like the bad guy here.
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Small-business optimism is limping along and is consistent with sub-par GDP performance and employment growth, according to the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) and its most recent monthly review of trends.
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Similar trends hold for most European countries, too.
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We primarily do that based on the direction of price trends, because most of the fundamental metrics did not accomplish the things we wanted to accomplish, to be able to quantify the kind of asymmetric returns we are looking for.
The shift from responding to past events to preventing future harms is part of one of the most significant, but unnoticed, trends in the world today.
Most would say those are positive trends, although the pace of debt repayment by households is pretty sluggish and our personal debts (at close to 100% of GDP) remain substantial (and a worrying burden) by historical standards.
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