While Iomega has done a good job of building its Zip disk brand over the past several years, it made a critical error when it reduced the prices on the drive and pinned its hopes for a long-term revenue stream on sales of disks.
By cutting out record companies, the band retains the full revenue stream of album sales, and monies from touring and merchandise sales.
Conservatives criticize the Cain plan because it adds a new revenue stream (a national sales tax) for the federal government and because rates might rise on that new stream well above 9%.
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Martin Blomkvist, Sony Ericsson's head of content acquisition and management said in a recent interview that offering digital music without rights or copying restrictions and games will help pull users toward the new site, providing a larger separate revenue stream, and stimulate handset sales.
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Mr Cain's rivals do worry, though, that his scheme will introduce a new federal revenue stream, in the form of a sales tax.
It provides a healthy stream of maintenance fees, about 40% of Sun's sales.
The interest graph combines the click stream, the semantic stream, and the product engagement data to illuminate the path to sales.
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But if Microsoft can build up the sales of the Surface Pro in 2013 and reach four to five million unit sales a year, they will have a healthy income stream from their Surface range.
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Google will take a 30% stake of all video sales from the store--an attempt to slightly diversify its revenue stream away from the lucrative advertising business.
Additionally, GM can incentivize sales by promoting the idea that a new car can now come with a rental income stream attached.
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We may see a spike in activity such as increases in ticket sales, but I am not entirely convinced that there'll be a significant sustainable stream of revenues.
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