The site now has 12, 000 members and has conducted more than 5, 000 live auctions over the past year, providing it with enough liquidity to start compiling real-time market trends and indices.
But the trends -- the trends have been going on for quite some time.
"Scotland's poor health profile within Europe is well-known, but trends over time vary for different causes of death, " he said.
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He says HP is trying to position itself as convergence or cloud, mobility, real-time analytics, trends changing the industry like never before.
Google's Flu Trends looks at search terms to create real-time estimates of where the flu is flaring up.
Yammer is also a pure-play social platform built from ground up to leverage the converging trends of social, mobile, cloud, and real-time communication.
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It turns out that the noise on big-time Facebook walls almost entirely drowns out trends like those, but posting volume does spike when wall owners make it into the news.
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While some industries, including retail, manufacturing, finance and technology, are vulnerable during recessions, Challenger says there are always industries that seem "recession-resistant, " based on different trends at the time of the slowdown.
The government argued that the market trends were already established by the time Apple started selling e-books.
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How else to explain how he could slap his name on the technology-heavy AIM Dent Demographic Trends fund in June 1999, just in time to get clobbered by the tech collapse?
Loans are going bad at a slower rate, and are not expected by Lloyds to deteriorate any time soon - which is another one of those benign trends that makes the current UK recession seem slightly odd.
The Keepin' It Real Fake industry has become so good, so fast, so well-tuned to market trends that we knew it was just a matter of time before it'd be consistently beating the real phones to market.
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The only way to truly succeed over time is to use your head, think out long-term trends, figure out where productivity exists (and therefore wealth is being created) in the economy, and invest your mind or your money alongside it.
At the same time, we expect Cisco to benefit from the long-term growth trends of data demand and cloud computing which continue to remain sharp.
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The style-philes have a difficult time picking just one or two of 2009's trends that they loved, but nearly everyone can agree that the asymmetrical dress was one of the best, if only because it was flattering on nearly everyone.
As Americans spend more time in cars and behind desks--both of which are long-term trends--they expend fewer calories in their daily lives.
But the survey annually discovers less obvious trends such as people in the west midlands spend the shortest average time on hospital waiting lists, while Scottish 16-year-olds get the best exam results.
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