If you take a look at the Big Data tab of CrunchAnalytics, you can see that VC investments in big data followed the same downward trend, with the peak of venture capital funds raised by big data startups occurring in 2010.

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At the same time, Asia has clearly been dealing with an upward trend in inflation over the last decade, which has increased investor interest in strategies to protect against future inflation.

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As I wrote several months ago, the media did the same thing with the hot summer, arguing frequently that this recent hot dry summer proved a trend for extreme temperatures, drought, and forest fires.

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The same is mostly true for the iMac, and it seems as if this trend will continue on with the MacBook Air line of lightweight computers.

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Many players, namely Kobe Bryant, do better with sneaker sales overseas than in the U.S. Could Wade follow the same trend?

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In recent years the trend has been towards some form of universal banking, with the same bank providing both retail and investment services.

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