Sentences with phrase «cent have made»

As it stands, the vast majority — or 90 per cent — of publishers are indeed publishing ebooks, while about 19 per cent have made their entire libraries available in digital format.

Feuds between celebrities happen all the time, but 50 Cent has made using rivals to his advantage into an art form.

Twelve per cent had made their own porn.

But Paul Mitcheson, an electrical engineer at Imperial College London, says there is a limit to how much electricity could be saved in this way, as reducing lighting by more than 10 per cent would make it noticeably darker.

Lin sunk into that effort every cent he had made from all of his bestsellers and lost it all when he failed after repeated tries to create a prototype that could be manufactured for an affordable price.

That would guarantee an author of a $ 2.99 book a royalty of 80 % of $ 2.05 ($ 1.64) and an author of a.99 cent book with a royalty of.35 cents would make 80 % of that -LRB-.28 cents).

Not exact matches

According to an advance copy of the plan, the charges to make a voice call while traveling, at present 35 euro cents a minute, would fall to 24 euro cents by July 1, 2014.

Previously, KDP Select authors would get a royalty payment if a reader made it past the 10 - per - cent mark of their book.

A poll commissioned by Google and released in May suggested only 20 per cent of Canadians had ever made a mobile purchase and only 16 per cent expected to boost their mobile shopping in the following year.

The company insisted it had not changed the specifications for the clothing, but is warning of a shortage of the extraordinarily popular clothing items, which make up about 17 per cent of all women's pants and crop pants in its stores.

Even though they're spending $ 900 million over five years to satisfy the NDP, the cash - strapped Liberals are making right - leaning promises to limit spending growth to 1.8 per cent a year, rebalance the books in 2017 - 18 and have no new taxes.

We made calculations that if between 15 and 20 per cent of all cyclists today were to shift to cars, in several streets traffic would completely stand still.»

However, Loblaw only has 5 per cent of the pharmacy market, making Shoppers an attractive asset.

Swan Taxis has announced a 10 per cent discount for the next three months on bookings made through its flat fare app as it continues to battle for market share against Uber.

Woodside Petroleum Ltd subsidiary ATS Inc has made good on a promise not to extend its $ 1.16 billion hostile takeover bid for US - based oil producer Energy Partners Ltd, after failing to reach the minimum acquisition level of 50 per cent.

The day we should have known better was the day that anyone thought a company which will never make a cent [of profit] is worth $ 20 + billion.

Before long, the company was making progress — though you wouldn't have known it from its stock price, which was stuck at about 70 cents.

In an effort to get that deal, the U.S. appears to have backed away from one of its most contentious demands and is no longer insisting that 50 per cent of cars be made in the U.S., and is now floating a different formula based on autoworker salaries.

He said the contractor has removed 50 per cent of costs from when it started production and is looking at how to remove another 50 per cent as it gets into full production, making it «an affordable airplane» to the U.S. government.

Perth - based olive oil company Olea Australis Ltd has made a further placement to Siva Ltd to raise an additional $ 644,480, increasing Siva's interest to 19.99 per cent in the company.

Neon Energy has backed out of a merger agreement with MEO Australia after Evoworld Corporation agreed to make a revised off - market takeover offer for 50 per cent of the shares it doesn't already own in the oil and gas producer.

This intuitively makes sense, as a 1 cent / hour minimum wage is likely to not have much of an impact on employment, whereas a $ 100 / hour minimum wage would.

Carnegie Wave Energy has wholly acquired solar power and lithium battery storage provider Energy Made Clean by purchasing the 65 per cent stake it didn't already own.

Perth house prices have fallen 7.4 per cent over the past 18 months, making it the worst - performing housing market in the country.

TPG Telecom has lifted its stake in Amcom Telecommunications to 19.9 per cent, making it harder for Amcom to win approval at next week's shareholder meeting for its planned merger with Vocus Communications.

The fund had managed to reduce expenditure by cutting the number of payments made to subsidise apprenticeships; it paid out 5,199 subsidies to employers of apprentices, down 6 per cent.

Mining services company Ausdrill has suffered a 148.5 per cent fall in full - year profit to make a loss of $ 43.9 million, on the back of $ 77.9 million in write - downs and impairment charges as a result of the diminished outlook for mining services.

Nedlands - based Proteomics International Laboratories has made a solid debut on the ASX today, closing 2.5 cents above its issue price at 22.5 cents per share, with about 1.13 million shares changing hands.

North Fremantle - based Carnegie Wave Energy has acquired a 35 per cent stake in solar power and lithium battery storage provider Energy Made Clean through a $ 4.5 million investment.

The company has admitted that 40 per cent of that figure is made up of Android apps that have simply had a BlackBerry wrapper attached to them.

Jeff Rose of Good Financial Cents interviewed the couple, who discussed everything from what it's like to go from making ends meet to having money to spare to how other people can echo their success.

«We look at people who bought two years ago and they've now made 30 per cent on their purchase.

At present, the cost for Sound Rink to make a lanyard in China is just 35 cents, compared to nearly $ 1.00 it would cost stateside, he says.

You have to know who's going to want your product or service and make sure that you've assessed how this will translate into dollars and cents.

Buffett himself noted in a recent annual letter that if Bank of America (bac) were to lift its annual dividend above 44 cents a share before 2019, «we would anticipate making a cashless exchange of our preferred into common.»

For example, rolling back the cuts made under the Conservative government would bring the rate back up to 22 per cent.

Instagram, a start - up which had existed for a mere 551 days, which had never made a cent in revenue, and which employed just a dozen people, had pulled off one of the most impressive exits in recent memory.

99 - cent store toys are made cheaply so you won't want to risk having a piece breaking off in your kid's throat.

If we had walked in and said, «I've second - sourced your product and can make it for 3 cents less,» he might have walked away because we would've embarrassed him.

Jeff Rose of Good Financial Cents interviewed the couple, who explained everything from what it's like to go from making ends meet to having money to spare to how other people can echo their success.

Canada made its name in Hollywood as a low - cost location in the days of the 65 cents dollar, and since a federal film tax credit was instated in 1997, each province has been scrambling to stand apart.

He says critics who say it will mean a 700 per cent increase in tanker traffic off the coast out of Burnaby, B.C., have their math right, but this makes the increase look bigger than it really it is.

In 2005, according to documents supplied recently to Congress, GM failed to make a repair of the switch that would have cost just 57 cents.

Canada has long struggled to tackle the wage gap, with the most recent numbers showing women on average earn 87 cents for every dollar made by a man.

Of the moms surveyed, only 24 per cent said they'd feel comfortable using their phone to make payments in store, while the male and young consumers were split.

In an advancement that could change the way that medical diagnostics are conducted, Stanford Medical School researchers have created a reusable lab that costs just one cent to make.

(Neither company made a representative available to comment by deadline, although a Lending Club spokeswoman said it had positive earnings per share of 3 cents in the second quarter.)

Today, a post has been making the rounds which claims that the Keystone XL pipeline would raise gas prices in the US Midwest by, «20 to 40 cents per gallon, based on the $ 20 to $ 30 per barrel discount on Canadian crude oil that Keystone XL developers seek to erase.»

It wouldn't make sense to hoard any nickels, and even still you'd have to find someone who'd want to pay more than 5 cents per nickel if they did cost more material wise, (which they do nt)

A company can run along, not making a cent, but if it has a large user base and reams of private information about those users, then it's valuable — and can be sold for millions.