He saw Silicon Valley celebrities such as John Doerr grab the limelight as they proclaimed the Internet to be the greatest legal money engine ever created.
And to go to Jen's point -- and this is a matter of policy -- it is rather striking that the central engine at this time of that political campaign, and all the money that is fueling the engine, is going towards an advertisement that is provably and demonstrably false.
The quote comes from coworker and Epic VP of business development Jay Wilbur, and it's fitting -- Epic only makes a handful of games, and the company's real money comes from game engine licensees.
In short order the little gizmo was bringing in more money than the old tariff engine.
Chrysler has a great recipe for minting money: Take a simple engine technology, jazz it up and rechristen it.
So there I was, advising one of the greatest genius in modern aviation, a legendary inventor, and an impressive businessman on raising money for his new steam engine project.
The final list included planned, strategic social media campaigns, like Bing's partnership with the Facebook game Farmville to lure players to the search engine with a Farmville money reward.
In an age when pride is on the wane yet the sense is strengthening that money has fatal flaws as an engine of equality, that experience simply cuts people off from political participation and sets them adrift, inward into their private lives, whether in a lonely or gregarious way (or, by turns, both).
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Just as a razor manufacturer makes big money selling blades, he explains, jet engine makers profit most from replacement parts.
But Detroit automakers are still selling the combustion engine, too, and making money at it until we all find a cleaner way to get from point A to point B.
Many of these gadgets can be used to turn off a check engine light, which can be a money-saver if you avoid a trip to the garage simply because the gas cap was loose, a common cause of check engine alerts.
The basic background is that the newspaper publishing industry in several European countries is adamant that Google makes vast profits from running the search engine and therefore they want some of that money.
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That Skimlinks could well be a monetization engine behind new social platforms is, for my money, the real news.
Schools are committing to reducing their carbon dioxide emissions, they're funneling endowment money into renewable-energy investment funds, and students--the engine behind much of this growth--are pushing for more.
Car dealers have figured out that the real money is in their service departments, where they can charge hefty prices for engine diagnostic work or manufacturer-built replacement parts.
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