Currently 60% of LinkedIn's members are outside the U.S., but foreign revenue is only 36%.
Foreign revenue, says Forrester analyst Andrew Bartels, could insulate certain tech companies during a downturn.
The waterway is a vital shipping route and remains one of Egypt's main sources of foreign revenue.
Other companies that lack IBM's and Sun's levels of foreign revenue and could be more exposed to the risk of a chilling U.S. computer market are Cisco, which splits its business nearly evenly between the United States and the rest of the world, and Computer Sciences, which draws about 70% of its business from the United States.
Other companies that lack IBM's and Sun's levels of foreign revenue and could be more exposed to the risk of a chilling U.S. computer market are Cisco (nasdaq: CSCO - news - people ), which splits its business nearly evenly between the United States and the rest of the world, and Computer Sciences (nyse: CSC - news - people ), which draws about 70% of its business from the United States.
American Express earns revenues from card licensing fees, royalties on billings, charge volume, net spread revenue and cards in force, foreign exchange conversion revenue and also a share of the discount revenue earned by the operator.
And remittances, a big source of foreign-exchange revenue in the region, could fall steeply in a prolonged slowdown.
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Beijing also increased the amount of revenue foreign movies are allowed to collect from distribution in China to 25% of overall ticket sales from the earlier limit of 13%.
When adjusting for foreign exchange rates, revenue was just about even compared to last year.
The mining companies point out the huge benefits the project brings in terms of employment, tax revenue and foreign exchange.
Excluding the impact of strategies to eliminate some businesses as well as the effects from unfavorable foreign currency translation, revenue increased 5 percent.
State Street fell 6.4% after the company's second-quarter earnings fell 4.5% on lower foreign-exchange trading revenue and lower fees from its investment management business.
Prof Goldblatt, professor in events management, said Scotland would benefit significantly from job creation and new revenue from foreign visitors if it was to lead its own tourism planning.
Excluding the impact of year-over-year changes in foreign exchange rates, advertising revenue would have increased by 43%.
Google said it hopes to generate enough revenue from the foreign calls to keep domestic and Canada calls free.
It may be impossible to set a minimum threshold for taxable revenue that penalises foreign firms but exempts domestic ones, especially as the latter grow.
You pay the tax to Canada but can claim a foreign tax credit with the Internal Revenue Service.
Foreign sales account for 30% of revenue but 55% of operating profit, three-quarters of which comes from North America.
Proponents believe a discovery would cut America's dependence on foreign oil and provide jobs and needed revenue to the Treasury Department.
Combined, foreign posts now get most of their revenue from new businesses such as retailing or banking for consumers, or warehousing and logistics for companies.
He is striving to lift foreign sales from a current 45% of revenue to 80%.
There may be no more vexing challenge in the Revenue Code than the taxation of foreign transactions of multinational companies.
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These two projects alone would create thousands of jobs, billions in tax revenue and reduce our dependence on foreign oil.
It requires foreign banks to to disclose to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) the names of all U.S. account holders.
When adjusting for the impact of refranchising its business in China and foreign currency exchange rates, the company said revenue rose 4.4 percent.
As shown in the second table below, the ten largest of these firms generated 42% of their 2003 revenue outside the U.S. Aided by a weak dollar (the same amount of sales in foreign currencies now gets translated into more U.S. dollars), foreign sales rose 17% in 2003, versus 7% for domestic revenue.
In particular, I see the risk of owning large, blue chip companies with a significant percentage of revenue and growth coming from more robust foreign economics as very limited, especially at current prices.
Shareholder pressure is pushing exchanges to look for new sources of revenue, in new asset classes or in foreign markets.
The message is: incentivise us to use it, or you lose tax revenue from production, and depend more on foreign sources of energy.
But he says that the rate must remain attractive to foreign companies as Ireland does not have the expertise or revenue to exploit the reserves itself.
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