Google delivers many great products, and, in return, gathers information on us to maximize the money it can make off of advertising.
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We just want to make as much money off them as possible, and help others make money off of them.
The amount of money armed groups make off three of the main conflict minerals (tin, tantalum and tungsten) has dropped 65% over the past two years, according to a report released earlier this month, which attributes the decrease both to the efforts of the tech industry and to new legislation.
One of the biggest concerns investors have had is Facebook's ability to make money off of mobile users.
Facebook started 2012 facing criticisms of its mobile strategy, and while there are still lingering questions about how it will make money off of mobile, these stats show its adept at transferring the Facebook experience to tablets and smartphones.
They make money off of advertising, some listing fees, and the big hope is their new Tmall service which could make Taobao the Amazon (AMZN) of China.
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"They have all this content, but they're absolutely struggling to make money off of it, " he says.
Step two is to figure out how to make money off of it.
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Tower isn't the only business trying to make money off of music podcasts.
"No one's going to buy a film they don't think they can make money off of, " says John Cooper, Sundance's programming head.
It's too early to tell, said Maris, but I couldn't help asking the obvious question: how will third parties make money off of Glass?
Cell phone games not only provide a new revenue stream, but allow businesses to make money off of their characters in regions where their books or movies don't actually sell.
By reaching this deal with the writers, the studios bet (unwittingly and against their will) that Hollywood's talent pool can best Silicon Valley's when it comes to content--that professional writers and producers can trump whatever your neighbor is filming and uploading to YouTube, and the studios can figure out how to make money off of it better than Google can.
First, the dot-com bubble burst, taking with it the inflated capital-spending plans of everybody who had been hoping to make a buck off of it.
That person takes the risk off of my shoulders so I don't really have to care whether or not you're a good credit risk because they've taken the risk off my shoulders, and in turn, they will make the money off of you paying the interest on the mortgage.
However, if Oracle can make use of the cash balance to make acquisitions instead of paying off debt, it could open up a lot of strategic opportunities.
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But because it was good enough they were able to make a killing off of it.
Apple is gonna make a lot off of this, and good for them.
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Not only do you start to make a mint off of old titles most people were picking up at Gamestop, you also build excitement for new installments.
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However, sophisticated cyber-criminals still found a way to breach those defenses and, once inside, they were able to make off with millions of emails because the data itself was sitting in the clear, unprotected.
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The notion that free code should beget more free code is central to the open-source movement, but it's a sticky point to companies, like Cisco Systems, that make a living off of intellectual property.
If Facebook can keep private communications between small social groups secure and ad free but make its money off of the broader social content, that is a deal I think many users will be happy to keep.
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Open source content, he goes on to argue, essentially devalues the content producer him (or her) self, in a way that makes it exceedingly hard for any person to make a living off of the fruits of their own brain.
My grandfather said that even though it might be possible to make some money off of interest, there was no guarantee, that the money would be safe once deposited, and hence he kept all of his money in a safe at his home.
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And now, after more than a decade of disappointment, Allen is finally starting to make a little money off of Charter.
Google owns YouTube, they both have a lot of servers, and they want to make a lot of money off of ads.
Activision continues to make billions of dollars off its Call of Duty and Modern Warfare brands.
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