In effect, DirecTV is saying to Viacom: You can charge us more, or you can undermine our business model, but undermining our business model while asking us to pay more is a little much.
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But our business model is to sell additional purpose-based licenses into our existing accounts.
But the business model is unproven, and ad dollars will initially be a fraction of the industry's overall revenue.
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But its business model, like many in the news industry, is failing.
But our business model and unit economics are about as ideal as you can get for a food company to absorb Obamacare.
But the business model of the cruise industry is: Strike up the band and hand out the daiquiris, the cruise must go on.
Good advertising has always told stories about brands, but now the business model itself is becoming the brand story.
But as the business model of online content has evolved, publishers have seen this position erode and with it, their revenue.
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" Sun Microsystems Chief Scott McNealy "will be one of those guys who tries to hang on, " but "the business model doesn't work.
Marc Benioff is the ultimate disruptor himself, having co-founded Salesforce and taken on not only the giants of enterprise software, but the very business model the industry thrives on.
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"KateModern" will not only be a test of this new genre of broadband drama but also the business model of whether it pays to create new media content exclusively for the Internet.
"One doesn't know, but with our business model one feels that at least you have a decent shot on goal, " says Jeff Calcagno , a medical doctor who now serves as chief financial officer of Vela Pharmaceuticals .
The website brings in money, but a robustly profitable business model is still work in progress.
The bottom line: Netflix is a good company, but has a broken business model that no investment analyst can fix.
Interesting, but hardly the groundbreaking business model that was expected as soon as the words "Google phone" began to make the rounds.
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The real threat posed by piracy is not that it threatens television's current business model but that it makes building a new one more difficult.
This may be the crucial test for Mr Dell who, after all, gave his name not just to the firm but to a whole business model (just-in-time, made-to-order manufacturing using an outsourced supply chain), key elements of which have since been adopted by his competitors.
Discussions are already taking place in the UK to test the waters of such a bundle package, but we don't realistically expect the business model here to change overnight -- but considering the duties the RIAA wants to toss on anything digital, we wonder just how attractive a new plan will be.
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Perhaps a few incremental adjustments are made, mending the tattered fabric of the business model, but rarely rethinking it or replacing it completely.
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We're very profitable now, but this is not a business model.
Aiming for a gender-specific demographic is a brave business model, but with Facebook and Twitter being so gender-neutral, it certainly looks to be a sound one.
So owning a name like that has advantages in how you build semiconductors, but also advantages in the business model or the economics of this roll-out in adoption of wireless.
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TellMe has opted for an advertising-supported business model, but also intends to charge e-commerce sites for building and maintaining their voice services and it wants to take a cut on every purchase that is made through its system.
To understand which applications might be the right choice, you have to understand the questions you want to answer to help your business but also the fundamental model of the world that is at the center of the applications you are considering.
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But in his actions announced Wednesday, Mack continues to embrace the same diversified business model he and Purcell had pioneered but that many investors and veteran Morgan Stanley bankers hoped he would turn away from.
But SundaySky needs to change its business model over the next several years.
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Agencies often have tried to address this issue tactically, but shied away from reshaping their business model to fit the new realities of the digital age marketplace.
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But if you push past the business model reasons, and ponder the ramifications for investors of this contrast, you arrive right in the middle of the ongoing debate over socially-responsible investing.
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