More importantly, many indicators sound like they would be predictive, but are actually not very profitable.
In the meantime, Android is at best break even for Google, and not very profitable for it licensees.
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Emerging-market banks say this activity is not very profitable anyway, but they are bound to miss it if it goes.
As a British publication, Punch, once found, that is not a very profitable place.
Various units like cash equities, which have not been very profitable over recent years, will most likely be trimmed.
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Both companies are facing the same challenge in the mobile space as mobile advertising has not proven to be very profitable.
"China will not overnight become a very profitable beer market, it will be a hard slog, " said SABMiller's managing director of Asia and Africa, Andre Parker.
Not to mention a very profitable business for the distillers.
We're very profitable now, but this is not a business model.
For example, magazines for middle aged women might potentially be very profitable, but that is just not what they want to do, because they think concentrating on a clear set of consumers and products will help them do better.
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Goldman was saying that while First Solar may not be a great investment right now, there are plenty of very profitable opportunities in green tech.
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The system is self-limiting because at some point, a very aggressive lender will overshoot, and lend at a rate at which they are not profitable.
The challenge is great, nearly impossible: As I explained last month, France is a very small market, already cluttered with several general news pure-players which are not yet profitable.
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Certainly the hitch does not seem to have harmed its own market value, well above that of some very much more profitable conventional firms such as PaineWebber, Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers.
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