In this task, you are given two sentences in the English language (Sentence 1 and Sentence 2). Your task is to identify the connecting word between the two sentences.
Q: Sentence 1:Between the years of 2008 to 2015 , Oxbridge communications announced that 227 magazines launched and 82 magazines closed in 2012 in North America . Sentence 2:Furthermore , according to MediaFinder.com , 93 new magazines launched between the first six months of 2014 and just 30 closed .
A: 
furthermore