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Michael Luddy

Welcome to the Trends Page. Consider helping to write a trends page or add Bulls/Bears reasons to a trend's profile.

What You Can Do

1. Click a link to view a trend page, then use the edit function to modify or add to the content on the page.
2. Add reasons why you're bullish or bearish on a particular trend.
3. Vote on existing Bulls/Bears reasons on trend pages.
4. Edit an existing trend page.
5. Send us feedback about the trends project.

Top Priority Pages

• New Smart Phones
• Cleantech^[1]
• Wage Inflation in India and China
• Global Sneaker War
• Computer Platforms

All Pages

• Netbooks
• Computer Platforms
• Transition to Digital
• Eliminating Set Top Boxes
• New Smart Phones
• Fire Safety - companies that make the synthetic materials used to protect buildings, electronics, etc. from causing fires
• Breakfast - a lot of companies in and around the QSR (fastfood) industry are counting on breakfast to increase sales.
• Homeland Security ^[2]
• Human Genome Research
• Cleantech^[3]
• Shifting Demographics - declining birth rates and labor importation in western civilization
• Cloud Computing
• Insourcing: Insourcing is a business practice in which work that would otherwise have been contracted out is performed in house.
• Software Piracy Estimated to be a loss of 48 billion USD in 2007 as compared to $6 Billion on 2006.
• Wage Inflation in India and China
• Media Companies and Video Games
• NASCAR (Auto Companies)
• Global Sneaker War
• High Customer Concentration - Companies that are exposed to risk b/c they have only a few major customers
• Middle Market Companies - Companies that are middle-market - not luxury goods, but not discount either
• Growth of Online Gaming
• Impact of the iPhone
• Family-Owned Businesses - Companies run by their founder or founder's descendants
• Japanese Luxury Consumption
• One-stop Shopping - companies that try to offer comprehensive services within a single industry
• Digital Cinema - The transition from analog film cameras and projectors to digital cameras and digital theater setups.

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