Really what it had offered investors what this cash-cow aspect, this large cash-earning and little-maintenance-capex-requiring asset class.
The company cut its full-year copper production outlook in response to continued disruptions in its cash-cow, the Grasberg mine.
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No telling how this will end up playing out, but we're sure Apple isn't going to give up its little cash-cow ecosystem without a fight.
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Again, these are cash-cow entities, very little maintenance required.
That, combined with the poor attendances for the first two days, means this match will be no cash-cow for the ECB - though they have the consolation of staging international cricket on an almost non-stop basis until 20 September.
And there's a warning to both London and Edinburgh politicians: while the public finances are in a lot of trouble, "The temptation to regard the industry as a cash-cow to meet short-term needs will be strong, but should be resisted".
In fact, using Office as a cash-cow while they play out a uniform interface, apps and content strategy across entertainment (as the gateway to the TV), mobile through Nokia, the tablet through Surface, and the dying PC through its traditional channels, looks like a strong play.
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Meanwhile, the company's traditional, lower-end cellphone business, a steady cash cow in high-growth emerging markets, is under growing threat from less-expensive Asian handsets.
And that to many on the street in Jordan, as a Western T-shirted and jeans-wearing blonde middle-aged woman, I fit somewhere between and outside of gender, an entirely different kind of alien other, a sort of free-ranging cash cow perhaps better avoided.
But the early focus of the investigation suggests a potential threat to Google's plans to expand its commercial success beyond its current cash cow: the Web-search engine.
Trouble is brewing in its finance arm, GMAC (nyse: GJM - news - people ), once the cash cow.
That will make those cash cow assets even more valuable in the long-run.
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Although this is labeled with the ever-trendy "universal" tagline, it's clear this NXT-powered device was created with Apple's cash cow and Sirius subscribers in mind.
In 1994 the cash cow of Berezovsky's growing empire was the state-owned automaker, Avtovaz.
Plunging memory-chip prices mean that Samsung can no longer rely on its cash cow, however.
To brace against slowing demand, national builders like Toll Brothers and Pulte Homes are now going after everyone's favorite cash cow, retiring baby boomers, by erecting gated condominium communities in non-traditional retirement areas like the Midwest and the eastern seaboard.
"Not only does Tencent have a cash cow in its strong gaming business, but the company is also best-positioned in high-potential markets like social media and mobile Internet services, " said Jefferies analyst Cynthia Meng, who has a buy rating on Tencent's stock.
That package includes online e-mail, word processing, spreadsheets and document sharing, much like Microsoft's cash cow Office suite.
What is clear at least is that BetOnSports is effectively losing its cash cow by shutting down its U.S. activities, where till now it has garnered three-quarters of its business.
Internet-based applications such as Apple's Messages are starting to take over from what was once a cash cow for phone companies.
"Up until now, patent donations have been a cash cow because the IRS turned an inadvertent blind eye, " says David Martin , chief executive of M-CAM , the Virginia-based company the IRS hired to help detect abusive tax strategies relating to patents.
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