It needs to be smarter in crafting deals to appeal to both merchants and consumers (and get a little profit itself).
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In Haiti, a lack of markets means little profit and virtually no wealth, no progress, no resilience against uncertainty, and thus no hope.
Just as gasoline produces very little profit at a gas station, express oil change businesses make very little money on the oil change.
The thing about Google, Starbucks and Amazon is that they declare surprisingly little profit in the UK on the back of their massive market shares.
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Much like Google with the Nexus 4, the Amazon Kindle Phone is going to be priced incredibly competitively, with very little profit margin (if there is one at all).
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It makes a tidy little profit, but could earn much larger sums if the previous owners' dream of turning it into a big freight-handling base can be made a reality.
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.
Considering how much average parents are already shelling out these days for college tuition and related expenses, they may want to explore reducing their outlay--or, better yet, making a little profit.
Then everyone wins: suppliers are paid more quickly, manufacturers only pay for goods when they need them, and the financial firms that take on some risk during shipment make a little profit.
It has produced little net profit in the eight years since it was founded.
If this number were small then Apple would be giving up very little current profit to increase long term such.
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They get hurt the most, because the majority of people buy within the last 25% of any trend, hence, there is little open profit to fall back on once the trend changes.
Moreover, this vaccine is only relevant in some of the world's poorest countries, leaving little opportunity for profit.
Foreign sales are still on the rise, but Proton makes little or no profit on each car it exports.
Most social enterprises generate little or no monetary profit.
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Despite the price cut, it looks like Duff will make a little bit of a profit on the home, even though median Toluca Lake home values are dropping 5.4 percent year-over-year.
What if as part of the Detroit bailout, bureaucrats ordered you to buy a GM car, and not a little one, but a profit-maximizing SUV?
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Meanwhile, despite their faster growth potential, high profit margins and little to no debt, many technology companies are trading at valuations below that of the broader market, he says.
From a bottom-line perspective, this only makes sense: for-profit entities have little incentive to spend years tackling a big question with no guarantee of marketable results and, therefore, a predictable return on the investment.
When all you have are ideas and no actual business, it's hard to analyze and quantify blue-sky--one reason why Internet companies, be they in North America, seem a little shy of pursuing the profit ideal.
Sun Life 's numbers were weak, and although Great-West Life's profit was up a little, it fell short of the forecasts.
They are run by govt contractors which are usually subsidiaries of international conglomerates whose profit making businesses have little to do with health care.
Computer viruses, once the mischievous work of get-a-life geeks and high school kids looking for a little recognition, suddenly are a profit engine for the criminal underground.
All Nippon Airways said the Dreamliner grounding has had little impact on its earnings and profit shouldn't be significantly affected even if the suspension continues through next month.
But the current market meltdown means many buyouts made with lots of debt in the last three years have little hope of ever making a profit or breaking even.
Sun Life 's (nyse: SLF - news - people ) numbers were weak, and although Great-West Life's profit was up a little, it fell short of the forecasts.
For one thing, the ratings business, despite being flattish right now as risk aversion cuts into debt issuance in some areas, remains very much alive contributing a little more than half of operating profit.
The result: lower departure fees (the majors typically pay a fee to the regional for agreeing to a flight schedule that maximizes connection traffic pushed to their flights) that have tightened up profit margins for the little guys.
This little breather allows for some short term profit taking to take place so the stock can be ready for another run.
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