The Daily Business Digest

We human beings are very emotionally tied animals. We carry memories of all our loved one and it is always a pleasure to be in touch with them.

We would have had intimate pals from our childhood. It starts from schools, college, places of work etc. But, we do not stay in the same place from birth to death. We keep moving. It may not be feasible for us to keep in touch with all of them. We may not be able to visit them regularly nor call them via phone.

This is where the social networking sites like orkut, facebook, twitter etc comes as a boon to us. We can get about their updates on a very regular basis, can share photos, videos, information, send messages and what not.

We would be virtually having a get together by connecting to our group of friends.

These social network sites indeed keep us going.

The Indian economy has been able to grow at a healthy 8% in the year 2009, next only to China. In fact even in the first half of 2009, only these two economies were able to be in the positive zone with reasonable stability. In the last two quarters the Indian economy has been able to grow steadily with a major recovery across industries.
The inflation is also slowly raising its ugly head and the government is also facing the problem of rising debt levels.

So the government has decided to slowly withdraw part of the stimulus measures taken at the beginning of 2009.
The government has partly reversed the excise duty and customs duty cuts, apart from raising the corporate tax for many industries. The service tax also been expanded to include railway ticketing. The interest rates are also all set to go up in the coming months, with the Central Bank raising the cash reserve ratio few days back.

Greece is expected to propose a revolutionary debt reduction budget exercise in the coming weeks in order to avoid becoming rated as junk country. And that is not going to happen easily, as hundreds and thousands of Greek took to the streets in a violent protest few days back.
And the government does not have the choice than to implement the plan, as it would not get any financial support from the EU and IMF without doing that. And implementing it could force Greece into social unrest issues which might go out of control anytime.
So nothing seems to be going right for Greece, and the entire European Union and even the global economy could be heading for trouble in the coming days.

There might be numerous lip smacking recipes that you would have come across. They might involve a lot of ingredients that have high fat and cause risk to your health.

Have you heard about p90x recipes that gives you a bunch of recipes where the ingredients are all low fact products. A few you may have to cook, a few are available in the market as a readymade product like grilled chicken, smoked fish etc

You may make your own recipes by cautiously avoiding high fat ingredients and prepare dishes as per your creativity and expertise in your kitchen. It should be very tiring nor it should be boring for you to continue. You can follow the recipes as is or can add as per your wish. But remember, the thumb rule is that no fat items and one that can give you enough energy to keep you going throughout the day.

Such efforts will ensure that you lose your excess weight with out any side effect and thereby reduce health risks. Also, you will enjoy finding more and more exciting way of making dishes that can keep you healthy and fit.

This method would be better than enrolling yourselves in weight losing programs or doing breath taking exercises. Make your kitchen your exercise area and keep fit your own way.

The twitter is a place where we can share all that is happening around us including what we do. Twitter can be used to share anything and everything around you. A new website still wants us to unearth more. The Blippy wants us to reveal the things that we buy.

The website Blippy is backed by twitter co-founder. You have to register your credit card with the site. The transaction done through this card is bought to the notice of friend’s in Blippy. There are many sites which focus on a persons spending and purchasing.

Blippy also allows us to know the details about new products. The guilty of your friends knowing your details indirectly helps you to spend less. The friends may also let you know the details about some offers and bargain. The website Blippy also helps in connecting to credit cards and e-bay, apples sites. The message comment on your website Blippy would be like “peter spent $2.98 on I tunes”.

For a greener planet, what you need to do is to consume much lesser energy than we do now. More than that, you should also consume energy which is green. This principle holds good in many ways. One of the ways of consuming greener energy is to ensure that you recycle and consume the recycled things. This makes sure that you consume things which are less impacting on mother nature.

This is where the recycling services sydney steps in. They help you recycle a number of things. They also get the waste collection going through their skip bin hire sydney .

Put together, once you get onto them, you are onto a recycling journey which will ensure that whatever you do gets recycled and hence is less impacting the nature.

After nearly two years, the newspaper wing of The Washington Post Company saw profit in the fourth quarter of 2009. But the newspaper report loss for the entire year.

The daily circulation of the newspaper has declined to 5.9 percent in 2009 and weekend circulation dropped 4.9 percent. The revenue through advertisement dropped 9 percent in the quarter from the previous year, the same period. The company had done a major cost cutting program and had boosted the paper back from loss.

The company has cable subsidiaries that has its major customer from Gulf states. The company has six television stations and magazines under its roof.

Carnival Corp Inc. & PIc has announced a rise in their summer sailings because of the strong bookings for the wave season. They are world’s largest cruise operator with the most number of vessels. They also are the most sought after cruise operators in US

The wave season which is from mid January till Spring is the busiest season for the cruise and there has been heavy bookings for the season.

Their rival Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd has also posted profit and looks for a more encouraging year this time.

The booking agencies fear that they might fall short of inventories due to increased in cost.

Are you a small time businessman who is affected by the recent recession. Have you starting on cost cutting in your firm. Are you confused where to start?

Then one of the most important avenues where you can optimize your expense is the expense that you incur for your printer. You can minimize taking print outs and check your reports from your system itself. But that can be done only in few instances. You cannot avoid taking print outs. There is nothing like seeing a report on the paper. But you can definitely reduce cost by choosing a right printer for you. For voluminous report generation and invoice billing etc, you can choose printer that need not have high quality ink suspension on paper. It is just enough if the words are clear. Do not use printers that are used to take print outs of drawings or pictures.

You may use cartridge printers for your documents. When you use these kind of printers, you can reuse the Printer Ink Cartridges by filling ink in it when it gets empty. You need to choose quality ink and the service providers should ensure that they fill ink in the cartridge in such a way that there is not leak or do not smudge on the paper.

Do you fear termites problem in your home. Are you worried all your beautiful wooden decorations may not remain so because of termites. Then you are right. Termites can damage your wood work. They can also damage your trees and plants. It is difficult to get to understand if your house has a danger of termites at the initial stage. By the time you will realize it, the termites would have caused good lot of damage to your articles.

There are various methods for termite control. There are vendors who have the expertise in removing termites. The can also inspect your homes for termites and remove them at the initial stages itself.

If your house is affected by termites that it might result in decrease of its sale value. These days, the home brokers insist of conducting termite inspection before negotiating value for your house.

Hence it is always wise to ensure that you get rid of the termites by regularly inspecting your house before the onset of damage. You can get the details of various solution providers for this problem, give the description of the damage. They would inspect your house and then give quotes. You may finalize them as per your judgment.