Archive for January, 2010

PostHeaderIcon Unemployment rates at an all time high

Although news of a finishing recession definatly bring hope, unfortently it doesn’t solve our countries record high unemployment rate.

Students seem to be having the hardest time, with nearly 30% of them not finding work. With the raising amount of students in the UK this will only make the rates worse.

The Job Centres around the country are reporting their busiest times for a number of years and are deploying a number of new techniques to try and get as many people working as possible.

PostHeaderIcon Britain is now longer in a recession

After all the troubles over that past year, the economy has finally grown, not by much, infact only about 0.6%. But it is news that we are now out of a recession.

First in, Last out.

Lets hope this is a sign of good things to come and can hopefully learn from our mistakes to avoid a similar situation in the future.

Knowing the banks around England, they will be back to their old tricks in no time at all, so it’s up to us to voice our opinions to avoid another disaster.

PostHeaderIcon 50% of the UK use online banking

First point to make is that is anyone surprised? Banks are never open when you need them!

Facts and figures have come in last week that report that over 50% of the UK now use online banking. With the ease of access and wide number of features which can be accessed online, it makes the best solution for most of your banking requirements.

Even loans, new accounts etc can be dealt online with the paperwork being mailed to you.

This increase in users may also have something to do with the weather as well, with a lot of people being forced in doors due to poor access to local villages / towns / cities.

PostHeaderIcon Snowfall hitting most companies hard

With the worst snowfall we have had in many many years, it is no question that some companies have been hard hit financially.

With limited access to Motorways and even the smaller A roads, getting to work has been nothing but a nightmare. With the large amount of absences, mostly from last week, companies have found themselves struggling in what is still a difficult time.

Only time will tell if companies have fully managed to survive, but lets hope the damage is only small with people finding their way back to work much easier from the start of this week.

PostHeaderIcon Google pulls out of China

After many up hill struggles with Google and the Chinese Government, Google has decided to pull out of China entirely.

After being made to censor Google results to allow them to stay in the Chinese market, Google decided to pull out. But after recent reports of gmail accounts being hacked into and emails read, the decision to censor Google.cn has been removed and has resulted in Google pulling out of China.

Although Google are still operating their search engine, it is fully uncensored and will most likely quickly gain attention from the Chinese government asking them to remove the service entirely.