5. Life is like a coffee table: it’s got tea sets and dinnerware all over it. (beiju, 杯具, is a homophone for tragedy, 悲剧, and dinnerware, canju, 餐具, a homophone for disaster, 惨剧).
In China, there were still 43 million people in rural areas living in poverty at the end of 2016. The country aims to help all of them out of poverty by 2020.
TextPride是一门不错的生意,就是规模太小。与此同时,短信应用市场正在爆炸式增长。Facebook公司斥资190亿美元并购了WhatsApp,这款产品的每月活跃用户现已达到7亿人。拥有2.5亿注册用户的应用Tango目前市值15亿美元。Kik拥有2亿注册用户。Snapchat价值100亿美元,拥有一亿用户。Kik赞助的一项新研究表明,美国用户现在花在短信应用上的平均时间要多于社交网络应用。不过唯一的问题是,这些短信应用需要找到赚钱的手段,目前广告主还没找到靠谱的方式插入朋友间的聊天之中。
无论是从教学还是从研究方面来说,金融课程都是北方高等商学院的核心优势之一。该学院在2001年成立了Edhec-Risk Institute,从事资产和风险管理等领域的研究并发表相关成果。
However, 2016 saw the rise of Chinese mobile phone-makers. Huawei shipments grew 30.2 percent year on year to 139.3 million units, and the company retained its No. 3 position globally.