CHICAGO, ILLINOIS (January 5, 2009) –In this week’s Crain’s Chicago Business, Shannon Smith, owner of Blueye Corporation, is featured in an article by Monée Fields-White discussing her thoughts on the current state of the economy and the role she feels technology will play in the months to come.

Fields-White writes, “At Blueye Corp., a Chicago-based online media and graphic design firm, founder Shannon Smith expects to generate between 100 and 120 new clients this year as more companies push their digital and online units… ‘In almost every recession and economic slowdown, technology is what has pulled people out of each scenario, and I think that’s going to happen again,’ Ms. Smith says.”

The article also addresses the potential effect of the upcoming economic stimulus package, expected to be proposed by Congress and President-elect Obama, on the economy here in Chicago.

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