HURRICANE SANDY BLAMED FOR DECLINE
Retail sales in the United States slipped by 0.3 percent in October, the U.S. Commerce Department announced this week. This decline – which was attributed to Hurricane Sandy – comes on the heels of a 1.3 percent increase in retail sales in September.
October’s slippage comes as analysts are making their predictions [...]
Retail Slips
News Doesn’t Pay
A new study by the Pew Project for Excellence in Journalism reveals that nearly half of all Americans are accessing local news via their tablets and smart phones.
That’s great news for us here at FITS … on the surface, anyway.
Aside from the ongoing problem of monetizing internet news dissemination (only 1 percent of Americans are [...]
