This control that consumers have over prices has led some analysts to predict that e-commerce can at best only ever be a low-margin business, and at worst a no-margin business.

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We expect the immediate impact of usage-based pricing on ARPU will be mixed and difficult to predict due to the limited roll-out, but over time it will act as an incentive for people to upgrade to Turbo, Extreme and Wideband data services.

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With uncanny accuracy, Ressi insists, he can predict the success of a founder over the duration of his four-month course and afterward.

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Listening to yet another CEO predict a hockey-stick spurt of growth sure to occur over the next 18 months--it was always 18 months--my hands would ball up in dread.

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But as interest rates edge up--prompting most economists to predict that home values will stabilize while demand softens--most think the merry ride is over for a while.

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According to Lawson, iKNowU technology main advantage over London-based SwiftKey, its main competitor and market leader, is that as you type, it can predict phrases and long strings of words, instead of just word per word.

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If one were to predict the nature of the bilateral relationship over the next few decades by extrapolating from trends during any six-year period between 1978 and 2006, expectations would be quite positive.

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