And titles can be reliable cash cows for 2-3 years, not just 4 months.
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One of the firm's cash cows is software that finds spam servers and blocks their transmissions.
These were supposed to be long-term cash cows that balanced out uneconomic dry gas fields.
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Of course, Microsoft often moves slowly for a very good reason: It doesn't want to cannibalize its cash cows.
But the programs aren't the cash cows they might be for their creators.
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For Chinese handset manufacturers, North America is one of the last great cash cows that has yet to be milked.
On the other hand, the most dangerous walk in business is on the tightrope between yesterday's cash cows and tomorrow's uncertainties.
This may lead them to decide that businesses are to be treated as cash cows when they are in fact stars.
And, not least, the foundations serve as cash cows for their managers.
They see international routes as key factors in turning legacy airlines back into cash cows as discounters grab more of the domestic market.
While Son's appetite for growth is ravenous, even by Silicon Valley standards, Softbank's three big U.S. acquisitions are cash cows, not chancy startups.
These networks have become cash cows for team owners because of the monthly fees cable operators pay on behalf of all of their basic subscribers.
Boring cash cows would win, while exciting high tech would lose.
That would probably mean that Schering, Pfizer, and Aventis would probably have to charge less for the drugs, which are currently cash cows for the companies.
In the end, question marks reveal themselves as either dogs or stars, and cash cows become so drained of finance that they inevitably turn into dogs.
Today those picks might appear to be perfectly plump cash cows, hidden behind a barn, pumping out healthy earnings detected by few and priced wholesomely at ten.
Most of these new generation strategy and simulation games featured seductive in-app purchase strategies that turned consumers into permanent cash cows, trickling dollars to vendors on a weekly basis.
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As for many Egyptian contractors, its biggest cash cows are the oil monarchies of the Persian Gulf, but Maridive also operates in places such as the Caspian Sea and the Gulf of Mexico.
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The conclusions drawn from such an analysis are to transfer the surplus cash from a conglomerate's cash cows to the stars and the question marks, and to close down or sell off the dogs.
That is where Milk Money: Cash, Cows and the Death of the American Dairy Farm comes in.
Such contracts, with no big need for development spending, could be useful cash-cows.
Fellow billionaires saw the potential of owning a soccer team as a valuable asset, and started snatching up clubs with the goal of turning them into global cash-cows.
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