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Economy

Lithuanian consumers complain of high prices and too little competition

Food distribution, energy and pharmaceutical products, as well as telecommunications and the Internet, are the sectors where Lithuanians are most likely to have experienced problems due to a lack of competition, according to a Flash Eurobarometer survey. […]

Vytautas Žukauskas
Economy

Lithuania should put off minimum wage hike amid worsening economic outlook, analyst says

Lithuania’s authorities should postpone plans for a minimum wage hike after the central bank on Friday cut its GDP growth forecast for this year, a senior expert at the Lithuanian Free Market Institute (LLRI) said. […]

Economy

Lithuanian company develops software allowing sophisticated eye movement analysis with ordinary webcams

Neurotechnology, a provider of high-precision biometric, robotics and AI technologies, introduced the SentiGaze Software Development Kit (SDK). The SentiGaze algorithm enables designers and developers to create applications that use off-the-shelf webcams to track eye movements and generate heatmaps based on how a user gazes at a monitor. Heatmaps can be used for applications such as analysis of websites or determining the effectiveness of online advertising. The SDK can also be used to develop interfaces for a number of other gaze-aware applications, including games and software that provides disabled people with some assistance in controlling their computers. […]

Economy

Lithuania sees second-largest fall of industrial producer prices in EU

In January 2015, Lithuania saw the second largest fall of industrial producer prices on the domestic market in the European Union (EU) as they dropped by 3.1 percent. The country also experienced the second biggest decrease of industrial producer prices on a year-on-year basis (-10.6 percent), both time surpassed only by the Netherlands, Eurostat, the statistical office of the EU, reports. […]

Rimantas Sinkevičius
Economy

Rail Baltica project presented to Lithuanian MEPs

On Friday, Lithuanian Transport Minister Rimantas Sinkevičius met members of European Parliament (MEPs) Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Zigmantas Balčytis and Valentinas Mazuronis. During the meeting, the minister presented the progress of implementation and EU funding opportunities for the project Rail Baltica. […]