Wendy's Fries, Unemployment Insurance: Hot Trends
(Wendy's new French fries and unemployment insurance articles updated with new information.)
NEW YORK (
) -- "Wendy's fries" is a trending search topic after the fast food chain announced a redesign of its classic fries for the first time in the company's 41 years of existence.
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"A year ago,
Wendy's
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launched its real brand position that is the foundation of our company -- real products with authentic, high integrity ingredients, fresh preparation and exciting tastes and flavors for every main food item we serve," Wendy's chief marketing officer Ken Calwell said. "We challenged ourselves to translate this brand promise into even better French fries. The result is hotter, crispier, and tastier natural-cut fries, seasoned with sea salt."
The new fries are sliced "natural-style" with the skin on.
"Unemployment insurance" is a hot search topic on the Internet after a Wednesday report from the U.S. Labor Department showed a decrease in the number of Americans filing unemployment claims.
>>Initial Weekly Claims Drop 24,000
In the week ended Nov. 6, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial claims decreased by 24,000 to 435,000 from the previous week's estimate of 459,000. Analysts were expecting a 450,000 drop in initial claims, after it rose 20,000 to 457,000 in the previous week.
For the week ended Oct. 30, the number of people that filed continuing claims was lower than expected at 4.3 million, a decrease of 86,000 from the previous week's revised figure of 4.387 million.
"Silver prices" is a trending search topic after
of $28.72 yesterday.
Silver futures for December rallied past 30-year highs, but prices fell back to $26.18 at close on a firmer dollar index.
also spiked to new highs. The
traded as high as $1,424.30 on Tuesday.
"Skyfire" is a heavily searched topic after Skyfire Labs announced in an official tweet that it is working on a browser for the
Apple
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iPad.
"We are working on an iPad version of Skyfire. If your primary device is the iPad, please consider waiting," @Skyfire tweeted yesterday.
The $2.99 Skyfire Web browser app, which allows users to watch Flash videos, was recently launched for the iPhone and iPod Touch.
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