Archive for September, 2010
<h2>Atlanta: Home of the New Wave of Web Graphics Design</h2>
<h4>The South is surging with innovative technology</h4>
Not many cities can make the claim to business success like Atlanta can. Not many cities have such a growing need in the area of web maintenance, web graphic design, and overall website solutions. The ever-expanding metro area is awakening to its potential to not only handle the problems of i Read the rest of this entry »
BERLIN: preliminary data showed German retail sales slipped 0.3% monthly in July, but still 0.8% higher on an annual basis.
Monthly decline was reported by the Federal Statistical Office on Wednesday, compared with economists’ expectations which increased 0.5%.
Federal Statistical Office does not explain what causes the annual increase, but UniCredit economist Alexander Koch, referring to the decline in sales of television after World Cup fever as the cause of the monthly sales slide.
Sales in the period from January to July rose 0.9% compared with a year earlier.
German retail sales data are often revised. With reference to changes in methods, statistics office recently reported first half sales rose 0.9% year-on-year, compared with a decrease of 0.4% in previous reports.
President of the United States, Barack Obama promised to increasingly focus on efforts to stimulate the economy following the end of the U.S. combat mission in Iraq.
“The most important task is to restore our economy and provide jobs for millions of people who have lost their jobs,” said Obama in a speech at the White House in Washington, as reported by Business from the official site of U.S. President’s Office, today.
To strengthen the middle class economy, Obama insisted the government would provide a decent education for young American children and also for groups of workers the skills to compete in the global economy. Read the rest of this entry »