Same-store sales, a closely watched figure in retailing, rose 7% in the U.S. for the quarter, a reversal from last year's shrinking customer traffic.
Gross billings, a closely watched figure that shows the total amount customers spent on Groupon's deals, increased 24 percent in the quarter to $1.52 billion from $1.23 billion a year earlier.
Louise watched the figure move from window to window, its dark shape heavy in the living room, where the light was brightest, faint in the bedroom.
Just before the south tower collapsed, I was standing on the corner of Greenwich and Warren Streets, watching tiny figures leap from the top floors of the burning buildings.
Just next door, and owned by the same company, is the Kalev Marzipan Museum Room, where you can watch marzipan figures made from Californian almonds being hand-painted with colored food dyes.
Last year, the highest increase in demand for new watches, according to the Swiss watch industry figures, came from Greater China, with Hong Kong's share of Swiss watch exports exceeding 2.8 billion francs in 2010 — an increase of about 46 percent compared with 2009 — and mainland China importing watches valued at over 966 million francs, nearly 55 percent more than the previous year.
Last year's Women's World Cup in particular was a success, with more than one in five of the UK population, or 12.6 million people, watching, double the figure from the previous two international tournaments.
After school, some teenagers are shooting hoops when they notice a shadowy figure watching them from a window across the street.
As he leaves to collect her, he notices a demonic figure watching him from across the street.
Once upon a time, long before video streaming, I was a 10-year-old boy who pretended to be sick so that I didn't have to go to school, and I wound up watching televised figure skating live from the Nagano Olympics.
