The company expects the devices to bring in profits from the increased sales of digital content through its online store.
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Not only does the OS bring in billions in profits, it provides users with a familiar interface, whether it is on their PC, personal digital assistant, set-top box, Tablet PC or cell phone.
That may dismay east Europeans, but Russia's resurgence will bring juicy profits to financiers in London.
Apple and other U.S. corporations have piled up tens of billions of dollars in foreign profits in those units that they are loathe to bring home and subject to U.S. taxes.
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To cap it all, a new investment law lets foreign contractors bring in labour from abroad but export all profits.
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In a rare moment of enlightenment in 2004, Congress permitted companies to bring profits into the U.S. that they had earned and left abroad, paying a tax of only 5.25%.
By low-hanging fruit, I mean things like a reduction in the corporate income tax rate that would immediately bring home profits and jobs.
Competition between banks will tend to bring the lending and borrowing rates closer together, theoretically squeezing bank profits to zero in the ideal case of a perfectly competitive market.
He will encourage companies to bring their jobs and profits back to our shores, hire new workers, invest in research and technology, rebuild our roads and bridges, and invest in promising new sources of energy.
The G8 and G20 summits in Toronto will bring the usual set of protesters claiming world leaders must put people before profits.
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In 2004, George W. Bush allowed a tax holiday so corporations could bring profits back to the United States and only pay a flat rate of 5.25%.
In 2004 under President George W. Bush, Washington let corporations temporarily bring money from offshore profits at a flat rate of around 5.25%.
Yet it also seems unfair to take money from those who have worked hard and give it to those who have not, or to take away the profits of those who have risked their life savings to bring a new invention to market in order to help those who have risked nothing.
Eventually, borrowers and lenders will wake up to the reality that their expectations of future growth in profits and returns were too rosy, and consumers will have to reduce their spending to bring debt back to sustainable levels.
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