Such a move would help consumers share content between devices but could also disrupt a profitable market for manufacturers.
And despite the developing world's construction boom, America is the most profitable market.
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Behind this prolonged, bitter wrangle is, of course, an extremely profitable market with margins on individual products ranging as high as 40%.
We expect more acquisitions in the future as major storage players position themselves to play a larger role in this evolving and profitable market.
In return, cable companies will be able to lock consumers into multi-year contracts and get first dibs on high-volume streamers, the most profitable market segment.
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Meanwhile, it was telling investors the UK was a profitable market.
In America, its biggest and normally most profitable market, Toyota has been plagued by highly publicised recalls that have raised embarrassing questions about the safety of its vehicles.
In the 1750s, when he was already about 40 years old, Guardi moved into the landscape genre, perhaps taking advantage of a niche in the profitable market of foreign visitors since Canaletto had moved to England.
So does Bombardier: the aircraft it would like to sell to Felix, and to airlines the world over, is the CSeries (pictured), a larger medium-haul jet that will take the planemaker into a bigger and potentially more profitable market, putting it in direct competition with Boeing and Airbus.
Nokia also no longer can afford to lag behind in the U.S. market, a large and profitable handset market, in part because the U.S. has the leading software-development talent for mobile devices.
Diverting output to a more profitable geographic market is a response to market forces, not an attempt to manipulate price.
"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.
Market leader Microsoft designs its OS primarily for more demanding personal and laptop computers, and has less motivation to fight fiercely for the smaller and less profitable netbook market.
"It's going to have to be profitable or the market won't be interested in it, " Roberts says.
In addition to XP, Microsoft is also launching Xbox, its entree into the profitable games console market, and .
He notes that Tissot sits in the highly profitable mid-market segment which the Swiss have cornered, and is associated with Swiss quality, not cheap gadgetry.
It also was the right thing to do, although a tough decision, to save the auto industry, which is now profitable and gaining market share -- the U.S. auto industry -- for the first time in a very long time.
But the slumping European economy and the success of its rival BMW's Mini brand has nudged the manufacturer to make a full-scale re-entry into what is still the most profitable single car market in the world (though China is now bigger in volume terms).
Should cheaper generic versions of the highly profitable drug reach the market, they will cause sales to plummet.
It controls half of the very profitable diesel pickup truck market in the U.S. with its F-Series Super Duty.
Priceline can continue to take advantage of this profitable segment of the market to drive its growth in the future, especially in fast growing international markets.
The inability of farmers to make profitable returns from the market, results in the CAP typically contributing between 70% and 90% of farm business income in Wales.
The inability of farmers to make profitable returns from the market, results in the CAP typically contributing between 70% and 90% of farm business income in Wales - a position Mr Davies said was unsustainable.
The reason for this is simple: consistent delivery of profitable results regardless of the market climate.
Despite all that, he expects PulteGroup to be profitable for the year assuming market conditions remain stable.
In essence, companies must constantly develop new strategies and products to remain profitable while maintaining a strong market position.
Boring, yes -- but probably also very profitable in the business fleet market segment where WinMo tends to thrive.
He emphasized domestic and foreign equity funds, both load and no-load, which are four times more profitable for Federated than money market funds.
It is also part of a trend in which European banks are buying U.S. financial institutions as a way of gaining access to the ever-more profitable U.S. market.
Yet strong hardware sales during this time (and for the immediate future) will provide an ever expanding market for more profitable software sales, which will likely drive industry growth in the next several years.
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