The improved economic conditions resulted to increased sales and prompt credit card payments by the consumers.
Key sticking points include residuals - the monies writers receive when their work is repeated on cable TV and in foreign markets - and payments from video and DVD sales.
License agreements typically have a 10-year term, and require the licensee to pay the owner of the technology some combination of an upfront fee, royalty payments based on sales, and per diem and travel expenses of the engineers who help transfer the know-how and technology.
However, it does not tax Medicare and Medicaid payments, spending by non-profits, or state and local sales taxes (yes, Virginia, some VATs do) .
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BitPay shields WordPress from having to handle actual payments by immediately converting and transferring sales proceeds into a WordPress merchant bank account.
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And Chinese sales at iTunes have gone up since it started accepting payments in yuan.
Companies, especially in the horribly over-borrowed property, construction and retail industries, cannot meet interest payments from shrinking sales revenues.
The consumer trust that Apple has cultivated through music and app sales will give it a major advantage when it comes to mobile payments.
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Take U.S. Concrete, whose bonds have jumped 25% since May, despite falling sales for four straight quarters, diminishing cash and a weakened ability to cover interest payments, according to Bryan.
U.S. Concrete ( RMIX - news - people ), whose bonds have jumped 25% since May, despite falling sales for four straight quarters, diminishing cash and a weakened ability to cover interest payments, according to Bryan.
The loss is only real if you decide to sell the bond before it matures, therefore forgoing the future coupon payments that would offset the loss in principal, and lock in that sales price below par.
He built a regime that could survive the grossest of economic failures by means of a blustering and threatening foreign policy, an oversized military that sucked up huge resources, strategic payments to key supporters in the party and military from arms and drug sales, and absolute repression of his people.
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On the sales side, prospective buyers can cruise her inventory online, and also see photos, calculate monthly payments and fill out loan applications.
Eager to spread across the country, the company recently recruited Heartland Payments, the fifth-largest payment processor in the country, and its 800 sales people to peddle the system to merchants.
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Payments firm Paypal has launched a chip-and-pin machine designed to offer new sales methods to UK small businesses that have previously relied on cash or cheques.
Apparently, Merck-Medco accounted for sales in a way that booked co-payments that consumers pay to pharmacies as revenue for Merck, and then booked an equivalent amount as costs.
Their reasoning was that this would complicate payments, slow service and annoy customers who weren't accustomed to credit card-only sales on airplanes.
The union, in turn, concealed the under-the-table payments and the fact that events it portrayed as "investment seminars" were actually ING-sponsored sales pitches, according to the findings of the attorney general's office.
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