It can take many years to develop a solid base of infrastructure, content, subscribers, and so forth.
This software would tap cable content, and be the base for other applications that could link with a home PC, manage saved content like previous Sopranos shows and movies.
Today, NetFlix has the largest subscriber base over which to amortize content costs, so the content costs would pose a bigger burden on its competitors.
Is it possible to extend the flashcard base with community-created content?
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Last year alone MobiTV delivered more than 1.5 billion minutes of content to its base of 15 million managed subscribers, up from 9 million at the start of 2010.
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Your best bet on Facebook is to provide good quality, entertaining, relevant and productive content to your fan base.
The base model Edge holds 64GB of content in a speedy solid state drive (128GB in the Pro model, upgradeable to 256GB).
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Lastly, they put themselves in a position of weakness in negotiating for new content, meaning they will have to pay more than they want (or maybe can) in order to secure the streaming content their disgruntled subscriber base wants going forward.
The gathered crowd consisted mostly of retirees and children, and they seemed content watching pitchers cover first base for an hour.
Nobody else can market new content to such a wide base of mobile gamers as Zynga can, without spending significant market dollars.
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The combined entity will offer a wide array of products and solutions and will have an expanded customer base encompassing the full spectrum of broadband content and service providers.
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As part of their ConnecTV partnership, Pearl will expand and coordinate the affiliate base of participating local broadcasters, integrate local content, deliver on-air, on-screen and on-line promotions and sell complementary second screen advertising that synchronizes with the broadcast.
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With titles like Better Homes and Gardens it has evergreen content and a stable, financially solid subscriber base.
They all work together to instruct our full-time editors, reporters and our growing base of contributors on the best ways to distribute their content to reach and capture followers and fans.
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Kilar wants to keep more of the content free while the company builds up a viewer base.
Over the past few years Microsoft has worked hard to build a loyal user base around the MSN identity by giving people access to exclusive content such as online pop concerts.
Wold projects that Netflix will have no problem ending the year with 32.4 million subscribers, finally beating the benchmark for the peak of subscriber-based content, HBO, which has a slightly smaller base this year.
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The fixed costs of content acquisition will be spread out over a smaller revenue base, implying that Netflix will lose operating leverage.
With a goal of growing its user base, Expedia aims to continue investing in developing its technology and content to improve its product offerings and expand its presence across geographical segments.
The topics pages serve as central content hubs, aggregating all of the new input from the user base.
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The need to access rich data and content is being driven by a highly mobile and increasingly connected user base.
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If this was a social network or an online supermarket, it would perhaps be more of a major shock to the consumer base - many of whom would be less au fait with the realities of online content than console owners.
As the Netflix subscriber base and revenues have grown and as we have shifted our service offering toward streaming content, churn has become less relevant and management has come to rely more and more on net subscriber additions versus churn to monitor and describe the business.
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Profits will remain low due to high content costs but, over time, this initial investment will pay off as the base expands internationally.
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Amazon plans to recoup its investment in the Kindle Fire, and earn a little profit by selling digital content like e-books, music and movies to the large Kindle Fire user base.
App developers and content developers want the ability to treat the Apple ecosystem as one and address a huge installed base.
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If Dish with its 14m subscribers were to merge with DirecTV, Paterson explained the result would be a subscriber base of an estimated 34m, which would give the company a stronger position by which to negotiate lower content acquisition prices and leverage operating fees.
Random House is taking a big chance by making such a big bet on an author whose fan base is concentrated in the under-30 demographic, a group not known for its willingness to pay for content of any kind.
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