In recent months, Facebook has expanded one of its innovative ad formats, "sponsored stories", which allows brands to pump puff-pieces into the "news feeds" of the brands' Facebook fans and their friends.
While private-sector hiring had expanded for eight months, the unemployment rate was 9.6 percent — just a tenth of a percentage point lower than the year before.
"However, the fact that private-sector employment expanded for six months in a row is an indication that the trend line is pointing in the right direction".
Much of that growth has been international — Instagram's ad program expanded globally five months ago, and James Quarles, Instagram's head of business and brand development, told me that 75percentt of advertisers are outside the United States.
Fire season in the West has expanded from five months to seven months since the 1970s and fires are burning twice as many acres, the head of the U.S. Forest Service testified last year.
By John Cassidy October 29, 2009 The real news in yesterday's G.D.P. figures wasn't the fact that the economy expanded in the three months from July to September — as I indicated last week, that was already known — but the extent to which the recovery was driven by government policy.
The revised data confirmed that all four major sectors of the economy - services, industry, agriculture and construction - had expanded during the three months to June.
Gross domestic product expanded 4.9percentt in the three months ended June 30 from the second quarter last year, the central bank said.
