First, I agree the majority of cloud companies are private and not profitable today and navigating to profitability is a challenge.
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In the meantime, Android is at best break even for Google, and not very profitable for it licensees.
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Outbound investment is greatly to tax havens and not for profitable investments.
What this ignores is something I was arguing in my last post: not everything that is profitable is truly of social value and not everything of social value is profitable.
It attracts a modest following -- about a million page views a month -- and is still not profitable, Wilson said.
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The original Keurig K-Cup brewers were generally sold at price close to its cost to increase the brewer adoption rate and were themselves not profitable.
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Oovoo does not disclose its financials or the percentage of its users that pay for its service and may not yet be profitable.
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Management told the BBC they were considering transferring them to an agency network because they are not profitable and most customers did not use them.
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My parents instilled in me throughout my life that you have to enjoy what you do and not focus on how profitable your career is.
On a full-year basis, the company earned 24 cents a share, which is fairly unimpressive, but at least Toll is profitable and not losing money in a still-lousy economic environment.
With the help of massive government bailouts (except in Canada), the banks survived a stint on life support and many are not only profitable again but have repaid some or all of their loans.
As for the Crillon and its stately sisters, why not retain only the profitable management business and sell the buildings themselves?
"We're not profitable, and we aren't at the break-even point yet, " says Miller.
He replies that global growth is a question of survival, not choice, and that profitable work in China keeps jobs in Ohio.
Moreover, some of these investment products are pension funds set up to invest in companies that are not profitable, and may never be.
Borders is working to cut costs and close stores as the second largest U.S. book retailer has not been profitable for four straight years and sales are more than one-third lower than they were five years ago.
But aside from investor funding, it has not been profitable, and has fared worse than its competitors, Amazon.com's Kindle and Apple Inc.
That's because most high earners can use "passive" real estate losses only to offset passive income (say, from profitable rentals) and not to reduce tax on income from their salary or stock and bond investments.
And not all of them came out profitable because of a methodology that inflates operating margin. (The median margin was negative 0.27%.) A given local hospital may have good operations, but not feel profitable because almost every cent of its profit is sent to their parent system for one thing or another.
We hope they will go away from Istanbul with the message that doing business in the LDCs is not charity but a wise and profitable endeavour.
At times of peak demand, she argues, the petrol price must rise high enough to prompt the reopening of old and inefficient refineries that would not normally be profitable.
The most profitable and predictable public companies are not hoping to set new trends through innovation or invention.
It found that funds historically important to Jersey, such as real estate and private equity, have stagnated and it was not known if they would be profitable.
Hospitals run for profit are also less likely than nonprofit and government-run institutions to offer services like home health care and psychiatric emergency care, which are not as profitable as open-heart surgery.
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"It is evident that they want to reduce their back book and dispense with clients they do not see as profitable, but there must be a less dramatic way to do this, " he said.
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Excessive government intervention in those markets is no doubt damaging, but the most productive (and therefore most profitable) transactions are generally not thwarted: it is only at the margin, where transactions are less value-creating, that bad interventions do harm.
We also have to start speaking and working together to raise the visibility and recognition of women as successful and profitable leaders in startups, tech, and business in general not as an afterthought, but as irrefutable and indispensable partners in the field.
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"We've had to raise prices where we can, and that's causing us to not be as profitable as we should be, " he says.
After Apple announced its earnings later that day, the stock price began dropping and it became clear that the trade would not be profitable.
The system is self-limiting because at some point, a very aggressive lender will overshoot, and lend at a rate at which they are not profitable.
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