Roni Deutch, widely known as The Tax Lady, celebrated the end of 2009 by holding an awards ceremony luncheon at the Sheraton Grand in Sacramento. She commemorated her team by acknowledging fourteen outstanding individuals and proclaiming them as her firm’s 2009 All-Star team.

Months of speculation finally ended on Wednesday, January 27, 2010, when Apple CEO, Steve Jobs, announced the release of the company’s latest gadget offering on the market: the iPad. Apple, the company that introduced revolutionary gadgets like the MacBook and the iPod, hopes that the new iPad will be the next big thing in the technology market. A slender tablet computer, the iPad looks like a crossover between the laptop and the smart phone.

As one of the leading financial institutions in the world, Citi Group has continued its commitment in citing and giving special recognition to over-achieving staff from their offices all around the globe. For 2010, and as part of the company’s dedication to microfinance, especially among poor nations in the world, Citi again collaborated with the Central Bank of Nigeria in awarding their Nigerian employees who excelled in 2009 in the area of microfinance.

Hope continues to grow for the Haitian people as more and more individuals and groups continue to provide aid and donations to the people of Haiti. People from all over the world, from ordinary citizens to some of the most influential people, have chipped in and done their part in raising the hopes of the victims amidst all of the rubble and destruction surrounding them.

As the global economic recession is believed to have finally met its end, the United States economy has grown at its fastest pace in the fourth quarter of 2009 as most businesses aggressively boosted their spending and held on to their inventories longer.