Technology jobs have replaced those in middle management as the positions employers are trying to fill most, new research shows.

Panelists at Hot.E discussed key trends in Europe, such as shrinking spreads, bountiful capital and high-demand portfolios.

This is the second part in a four-part series from the International Society of Hospitality Consultants discussing technology trends in the hospitality industry. Read part one here, and look for parts three and four this week.

Thuesday three economists, (Tobias Preis of Warwick Business School in the U.K., Helen Susannah Moat of University College London, and H. Eugene Stanley of Boston University) published an eye-opening paper that said Google Trends data was useful in predicting daily price moves in the Dow Jones industrial average, which consists of 30 stocks. Their research result:

Trends get a bad rap, mostly because they are often equated with fashions. Talk about trends and people immediately start imagining wafer thin models strutting down catwalks in outrageous outfits, or maybe a new shade of purple that will be long forgotten by next season.