Word: trended
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...backup plans before the recruiting process, thinking of going back home to work for her dad’s business or entering the public sector this summer. Many students have considered similar paths, leading to a more competitive applicant pool for fellowships and other non-finance-related internships. The trend has allowed non-traditional companies to capitalize on the worsening financial job market. Mount said that businesses that may have not traditionally recruited at Harvard are now planning to do so, such as Pepsi, Madison Square Garden, and smaller boutique investment banking firms. “New companies feel like...
...seemingly negligible amount paid by readers still takes up a major part of the company's revenue, Hou says a growing trend in the business is to convert online postings into hard copies of books, plays, movies or even computer games. Ghost Blows Out the Light, whose book and online game versions both became best sellers, already has a movie and a play in the making. More recently, a Shanda fantasy novel called The Star Games just sold its online game rights for 1 million yuan in January. "A major part of our job now is to forage those online...
...Shanda also expects to tap into China's increasing trend of cell-phone reading and has a social-networking site in the pipeline to try to build a steady user base. Still, Hou realizes that to expand readership further in the long term, it may not be enough to rely solely on amateur writers and their largely similar tomb-raider or martial-arts novels. "We have been in talks with big-name writers like Yu Hua as well," says the CEO. "We will be much more comprehensive than...
...place left to hide from rising unemployment. Nationwide, of course, job losses have been mounting for quite some time. Four states - California, Michigan, Rhode Island and South Carolina - now have unemployment rates north of 10%. But until January, certain pockets of the country were bucking the national trend. In fact, in December, six metropolitan areas actually saw flat or falling unemployment rates from a year earlier...
...places in Boston to purchase things that were fresh-made.” Cupcakes have enjoyed an upsurge in popularity in recent years, with stores like New York City’s Magnolia Bakery drawing credit for sparking the craze over the portable confections. The trend has also caught on in other major cities, like Los Angeles. Closer to home, Kickass Cupcakes in Somerville’s Davis Square opened in 2007, and many Boston bakeries offer gourmet twists on the childhood favorite. Forrester said that while her product was influenced by Magnolia, Sweet takes a different tack...