Serbia can get the EU candidate status in December, said Head of the Serbian government’s EU Integration Office Milica Delević.
She added, however, that it was also necessary to create an appropriate political climate and improve situation in ten indicative fields in order to achieve the goal.
The average net salary in Serbia in December 2010 was EUR 375, an increase of 14.1 percent in real terms or 14.9 percent nominally in comparison to November. This was announced by the Serbian Statistical Office on Tuesday in Belgrade.
Analysts say industrial production may have peaked, and expect growth to return to more sustainable levels between 8.0% and 10% in 2011. Factory output is tipped to contract 3.2% on-month in December on a seasonally-adjusted basis after a surprise 1.1% expansion in November, according to the poll.
Inflation is likely to be the biggest worry for the MAS in 2011; the result is likely to fuel increased expectations for the central bank to tighten policy at its April review, for the third-straight time.
The consumer price index increased 4.6% in December from a year earlier, after climbing 3.8% in November, the Department of Statistics said in a statement today. The median estimate of 13 economists surveyed by Bloomberg News was for a 4.5% gain. Prices rose 0.2% from November, without adjusting for seasonal factors.
The result is lower than the 10.5% growth forecast in a Dow Jones poll of economists, due to a decline in electronics, computer hardware and pharmaceuticals shipments.
Singapore’s non-oil domestic exports likely rose 10.5% on-year in December vs a 10% gain in November mainly on increased demand for electronics and pharmaceuticals, according to a median estimate of 10 economists polled by Dow Jones.
“We have seen a relatively strong momentum of exports across the (Asia) region. Also, recent positive macro-economic data from the U.S. suggest that exports would have picked up in Singapore,” says Nomura economist Euben Paracuelle.
Have you seen the video premiere for “Back to December?” It’s the second single from Taylor Swift’s platinum-selling Speak Now album and is reportedly about her breakup with teen star Taylor Lautner, who is now dating Phil Collins’ daughter — Lily Collins. The romantic vid was directed by Yoann Lemoine, who also stepped behind the [...]
GSLO has announced that it has secured the rights to exclusively sell a new charging case in the US. The case is the Volt Solar Charger and has an internal battery and a solar panel on the back for charging on the go. Millennial Media has offered up the numbers for the mobile market based [...]
Tiger Airways (J7X.SG) is +1.1% at $1.82, in average volume of 939,000 shares so far, as the airline’s solid December operating data fail to generate much excitement.
The carrier reported it flew 555,000 passengers in December, +22% on-year, +19.6% on-month, at an average load factor of 91%, +1 percentage point on-year.
Tiger Airways has reported solid passenger volumes and load factors in December.
For the month of December, Tiger Air carried 555,000 passengers, a 22% increase compared to the same month last year. The average load factor across Asia and Australia for the month was 91%, an increase of 1 percentage point over December 2009.
The electronics PMI reported a second straight month of expansion, though the reading eased to 52.2 in December vs 53.2 in November. A reading above 50 in the PMI data indicates growth in manufacturing activity, while a reading below 50 indicates contraction.
Automobile major Maruti Suzuki sold 99,225 units in December 2010 against 71,000 units in the like period of 2009, registering a 39.7 percent increase in its sales, a company release said. “In December 2010, sales were up 23.5 percent in A2 and 19.4 percent in A3 segment. In C segment, the company recorded a growth [...]
As the holiday season approaches, your loved ones are probably asking, "What do I get for the techie who has everything?" At the same time, your enthusiasm for technology is likely leading you to consider which geeky gifts will be most appreciated by your friends and family. You know what the best products on the market are, you know how much they go for, and you know whether or not they would appeal to you or your loved ones. You have an advantage that so many holiday shoppers just dont have. As a person with all the tech answers, youre typically the party to consult with questions about which product to buy, not necessarily the party that people are trying to buy tech goodies for. Here, we’ve tried to make everyone’s job a little easier this holiday season, as Don Reisinger has listed several different geeky products that you will probably want to get your hands on this year, as well as some great techie gift ideas for you to share with others.
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The FCC will vote tomorrow morning between 10:30 and 12:30 Eastern time on a proposed rule written by FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski which would gut the Internet. It would allow the big carriers to create different tiers of mobile Web access and spee…
Mac owners can now purchase programs for their desktops and laptops with a single click, just as you can buy songs on iTunes and games in the App Store for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch. Apple has set January 6, 2011 as the launch date for the App Store, which will be available in 90 countries with free and for-pay software in categories such as education, games, graphics and design, lifestyle, productivity, and utility. On the developer side, Apple says developers will set the price of the applications and get 70 percent of the revenue. They also do not have to pay for hosting, marketing, or credit card transaction fees; Yahoo announced it will be cutting about 4% of its workforce, which would equate to around 600 jobs. The company also said its planning to shut down several "underperforming" and "non-core" Web properties as it continues a years-long turnaround effort. According to a Yahoo spokeswoman, sites that could be affected by the moves include Delicious, a so-called social bookmarking service; the venerable Web search sites AltaVista and All The Web; and Buzz, which aggregates news stories from around the Web and lets people vote on how important they are; Next summer, Google will be rolling out its Chrome Operating System into the mix with the likes of Windows and Apple OS. Chrome OS is based on Google’s Chrome Web browser. Instead of storing most programs and files on your computer itself, the Chrome OS will mainly run programs from, and require you to keep your data in, the cloud. In effect, it turns your entire computer into a giant Web browser, instead of treating the browser as just one among many local programs. Another cool browser being released soon is RockMelt. Weve mentioned them before. In the first-ever browser where users will have to log in, RockMelt will automatically open Facebook, Twitter, and other social media, and keep it right at your fingertips; And lastly today, we give you a quick peek at the cover of TIME magazine, where the publication named Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerburg as its Person of the Year.
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As a year dominated by social media comes to a close, Searchmetrics, the provider of search analytics software, reveals its insights and predictions for the search engine optimization (SEO) landscape in 2011; According to a new survey by the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute at the University of Missouri, Apple’s iPad is killing print newspaper subscriptions. Around 84.4 percent of the survey’s 1,600 participants said they use their iPad to follow breaking news and current events. The Institute’s Program Director and Digital Publish and Research Project leader Roger Fidler wrote in a Dec. 9 statement, "These findings are encouraging for newspaper publishers who plan to begin charging for subscriptions on their iPad app editions early next year, but our survey also found a potential downside: iPad news apps may diminish newspaper print subscriptions in 2011.”; If youve experienced a power outage, you know how frustrating they can be. But just wait until you hear how big of a pain in the wallet they are as well. CA Technologies conducted a study through a series of interviews with CIOs, IT directors, and IT managers from 200 companies spanning the financial services, manufacturing, retail, and public sectors. Researchers calculated the financial losses incurred when businesses cannot quickly recover from service outages, and you wont believe how much its costing.
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