If Rovio is a one-hit wonder, the company is ensuring it is as broad and profitable a wonder as possible.
This huge amount of information now allows Harrah's Entertainment to predict how profitable a customer might be, even after only a few casino visits.
Africa probably isn't is that profitable a run, but Willie Walsh 's British Airways and its various subsidiaries and franchises, Air France-KLM Group and Egyptair all stand to profit from Kinshasa's misfortune.
Looking beyond the reported accounting results, however, we see that ARBA is not quite as profitable a company as it seems and that its valuation has outgrown its profits by a wide margin.
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Mr. Hurd became known for his flip chart and his ability to distill each business decision to a set of metrics that could determine how profitable a move would be, said former colleagues.
It's not clear how profitable a niche product that is more complicated to produce and distribute than juice will be for the food and beverage giant, whose shares have been underperforming U.S. rivals Coca-Cola Co.
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Africa probably isn't is that profitable a run, but Willie Walsh 's British Airways (nyse: BAB - news - people ) and its various subsidiaries and franchises, Air France-KLM Group (nyse: AKH - news - people ) and Egyptair all stand to profit from Kinshasa's misfortune.
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Investment products are highly profitable, a lot more profitable than selling bars of soap.
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Nook Tablet has potential to fill a profitable niche in a still-fast-growing market.
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That makes them a dicey proposition in a fast-moving energy market like Britain's, where changes in spot power prices can transform a profitable plant into a loss-making one overnight.
One of the reasons why Mr Whittle sees a profitable opportunity for a new entrant is that global demand for elite private education has soared in recent years while not least because of the sort of problems he has encountered, above all in finding suitable sites supply has remained fairly static.
This is another example of a company striving to be profitable and a good corporate citizen.
Forced to make a Web-based strategy profitable, a reconstructed Web site could start mixing original reportage with Times-endorsed reporting from other outlets with straight-up aggregation.
Although half-year results, announced this week, showed a 70% jump in profits, the bank has a hard time making branches profitable in a country where its average employee earns SFr140, 000 a year.
If Johnson can get sales to a point where the company is profitable, a buyer might see worth in conducting new clinical trials in other diseases while running the existing business.
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Yet there may be only limited opportunities for arbitrage, so that what is profitable on a small scale becomes much less profitable as the bet grows and more funds are involved.
And here's something that the Academy Awards hate to hear: Winning a Golden Globe has proven to be much more profitable for a movie than winning an Oscar.
Their different thinking methods and experiences helped us develop a quite profitable strategy for a client and have improved my own thought processes too.
That's why creating your own job opportunity by presenting a profitable project can be a great way to shorten your job search and maintain your salary in a tough market.
Akamai even turned the trick into a profitable business by building a network of servers situated within the networks of other companies into a sort of meta-network, which it uses to speed the delivery of its client's content.
According to industry estimates, a nearly full 757, operating with fewer flight attendants, can be more profitable than a larger plane such as the Boeing 767 carrying the same number of passengers but more attendants.
This is the result of a single insight its page rank algorithm for searches which became profitable when a way was found way to monetize the resulting traffic and provide advertisers exactly what they needed while keeping the ads discreet so as not to irritate users.
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As a nascent and profitable industry in a failed and starving state, the Somali pirates will not lack for recruits.
By implementing the aforementioned tactics, the company was able to correct the problem and generate a profitable CLV, which became a key performance indicator (KPI).
It's usually a profitable business, but if a deal falls apart -- as the Sallie Mae offer is threatening to do -- they can suffer serious losses.
The situation is then compounded when aluminum production ceases to be profitable at a time of low prices.
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An investment in home-building stocks could prove to be even more profitable than a purchase of a home.
Today the company is profitable with a run-rate in the low single-digit millions.
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