Sentences with phrase «of a problem for revenues»

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Anti-marketing programs are a problem not only for publishers, who stand to lose revenue, but also for advertisers, who need to get their messages in front of consumers.

Getting lots of money from Spotify may be great for music labels and owners, but it's not doing much for Spotify: The company lost $ 200 million last year, and the massive payments it makes to record companies (which amount to more than 85 % of its revenues) are a big part of the problem.

While the company had plenty of other problems — its failure to create sufficient revenue through its retail products, for one — Brush's reluctance to listen to and respect his workers was one of the biggest.

For however long the app store growth continues, the problem of revenue concentration at the top will continue to persist.

But here's the problem for Valeant: According to its income statement, it spends just 3 % of its revenue on R&D, compared to about 15 % to 20 % for large drug companies.

Linnea Geiss, vice president of corporate development for NCR Corporation, and a board member for Venture Atlanta, describes this as a city where the entrepreneurial community invests in the most important things, which she lists as: «Revenue, finding real solutions to big problems and creating products that people really want.»

«The biggest problem is that revenues of the great majority of small businesses have gone down from between 10 percent and 70 percent,» said George Cloutier, founder of American Management Services, an Orlando, Fla., consulting firm that specializes in financial turnarounds for small and midsize companies.

B) Generate no revenue and have no model for doing so besides â $ œadvertisingâ $ C) Due to (B) the only viable liquidity event is a sale to a major internet player (Yahoo, Google, eBay, MSN) which is very, very unlikely D) Target the same 20 — 30 year old male, tech savvy demographic and will likely never be able to even capture 1 / 100th of the TechCrunch readership after everyone realizes how it just wastes time and solves on real problem

Barnett contends that the criticisms of a strong patent - rights system overlook recent empirical evidence and have overestimated the impact and scope of problems including «patent trolls» (firms that own patents but do not manufacture products), «royalty stacks» (the total demands of multiple intellectual property holders for remuneration leave too little revenue left for the manufacturer), and «patent thickets» (complex and conflicting legal claims that increase transaction costs for manufacturers).

I think the valuation is just average, but I think if this develops into a larger issue then customer attrition comes into play, which is a problem for a bank like Wells that relies on its huge business that it does in the retail bank (57 % of its income comes from the retail bank, of which a large percentage is high margin revenue that comes from cross-selling, the very practice that it will now almost certainly begin to slow).

Click fraud has been a known issue for many years now and yet even large search engines like Google, which get most of its revenue from contextual ads, are failing at solving (or are not even willing to do anything) about the click fraud problem.

The problem for the AKB now is that, with those huge financial commercial deals, the property developments, the huge TV deal, allied to Arsenal's match day revenue AND CL TV cash, they've now run out of excuses.

That effectively ignored the problem of falling revenues for the Treasury's coffers caused by a combination of stunted wage growth, lower than expected property transactions and lower interest rates.

Other deprived cities have council leaders who make «jaws of death» presentations about rising demand for service areas vs limited revenues that produce problems with the funding of statutory services.

In some instances, the federal stimulus plan could make our financial problems worse, by providing temporary financial support for permanent increases in our base - line health care and education spending, that eventually will need new, state - level sources of revenues to support.

So more egg on Brown's face, for he tried to deny that there was systemic failure at the Inland revenue, and tried to deny that his amalgamation of the departments had anything to do with the problem.

He says that Labour has cut too deeply into Revenue and Customs and must take its share of the responsibility for the organisation's problems.

The governor while playing host the RAMFAC visiting team said the commission should be interested in the huge revenue loss that has caused series of problems for the country.

And here's the problem with that for the retailers — if this govt is so antibusiness now starting with property owners — just remember that other American cities have implemented networked cash registers to assure proper reporting of revenue — it does not make sense that this city government and recent press coverage on nail salons is NOT going to end up in some kind of legislation.

The National Democratic Congress (NDC) Member of Parliament for Ketu South, Fiifi Kwetey, believes that the New Patriotic Party (NPP) is already regretting the numerous promises it made to Ghanaians, as the pressure to fulfill them, is creating a lot of the revenue - allocation problems for the government.

[11] Rather than limit investment in other needed services to pay for the circuit breaker, the state should generate additional revenues by fixing some of the problems related to last year's corporate tax reform, eliminating or scaling back many of the state's smorgasbord of business tax credits, rejecting the proposed Education Tax Credit, and limiting the increase in the estate tax exemption.

Teachers have been a problem constituency for Cuomo, who has touted the state - mandated teacher evaluation system and a property - tax cap that limits school districts» abilities to raise revenue as signature accomplishments of his first term.

The arrangement would solve Nassau's problem of finding a location for a video slots parlor — which has been met with staunch opposition at more than one proposed site — while guaranteeing the county a revenue stream through OTB.

And for the startups looking to enter the game & shake up the industry, one of the biggest problems is the substantial financial down payment needed to first build the kind of sleek, user - friendly app that singles now expect, and then to maintain the business until it starts to bring in revenue.

The local agencies don't want to lose any girls who create revenue, so they create all kinds of problems for the girl and the man.

The current strong economy masks underlying problems in nearly a dozen states where anticipated tax revenues will fall well short of spending projections for the next eight years, according to the NEA, which issued its findings last week.

King's plans were drafted in response to a blue ribbon Independent Financial Review Panel, commissioned by former Superintendent Ramon Cortines to outline problems and possible solutions for the district, and the first part of Tuesday's meeting was devoted to where the budget is headed and why revenue is expected to decline.

The problem is that for too long, corporations have entirely dominated tax policy debates, according to Dan Bucks, former director of revenue Montana, who advocates for corporate tax accountability measures.

The mindset inherent in this strategy is to ignore the real problems of the business — inadequate fiscal controls, antiquated business processes, and a painfully slow business cycle that means slow revenue realization for the publisher (and even slower for the talent that actually manufactures the product, which is another factor that encourages authors to forgo going to the Big 5).

In fairness, I do collect revenue share from the ad impressions, so there is a bit of compensation: — RRB - I work with a lot of new software and hardware for my job every day, so these articles are relatively painless for me to write, and I do a bit of additional research to look for problems and functionality that's a bit out of the ordinary.

While each Publisher Defendant recognized that it could not solve «the $ 9.99 problem» by itself, collectively the Publisher Defendants accounted for nearly half of Amazon's e-book revenues, and by refusing to compete with one another for Amazon's business, the Publisher Defendants could force Amazon to accept the Publisher Defendants» new contract terms and to change its pricing practices.

I don't even know how to say what I feel about publishers at this point — part of the problem is that they insist on acting as if we are still in the 1800's — they haven't changed their business models in a long time and they really are almost clueless when it comes to looking at the future of books — I wouldn't mind paying more for an ebook or even a paper based book if the author was getting more revenue but it's not about the author at this point it's all about the publisher.

Is it a problem that Hachette depends on Amazon for so much of its revenue?

Problem is, says Melanson, many of these investors aren't actually looking for a revenue - producing purchase — just a place to park their money, away from the prying hands of other governments and other tax agencies.

This illustrates a common problem: Too many investors won't even dream of buying a share'til it doubles — then they finally pile in & make it a triple... Yes, Grafton's clearly out of the woods now, revenue's picking up, they've even made a couple of small acquisitions — but how much of a rosy future do you really want to pay for today?

MS solved the problem by integrating Xbox into the Windows division, because then it was easier to hide the numbers by just saying what revenue was brought in, which is impressive, while just putting all money spent into a pool of money for the whole Windows division.

The believable constraint (carbon tax revenues shouldn't exceed current tax revenue, raising the tax rate) doesn't raise a problem, and the tougher restriction he pulls out of his butt (no more than 10 % of current revenues) has no obvious empiric basis, and in any case could easily be addressed by phasing in a carbon tax over five or ten or twenty years, which is something advocates for a serious carbon tax endorse anyway.

The new sea route will alter world trade, making northern countries richer, but causing serious problems for Egypt, which will lose a large chunk of revenue currently gained from ships coming through the Suez Canal.

I suppose it must come down to the dual problems of vested interests wanting to continue lining their pockets, and the fact that the CAGW hoax has been a very useful «Trojan Horse» for imposing all sorts of restrictions and additional sources of tax revenue (not to mention the UN's sinister Agenda 21).

I.e., we can respond to the Global Warming problem by implementing programs that shift costs onto those least deserving to pay it, and by shifting revenues or profits for response programs into the hands of those who already represent extraordinarily concentrated and subsidized wealth.

The root cause of the problem is not having a system in place for managing them, and the result is that your firm is losing potential revenue, creating a substantial barrier to your growth.

We also regularly act as tax attorney for those facing tax problems and need relief from the S.C Department of Revenue.

The research aims to investigate the causes of sales tax non-compliance and examine how blockchain could tackle current problems with the use of smart contracts, recording real - time transactions and automatic tax submission to the Canada Revenue Agency, as well as look into the pros and cons of using blockchain for stakeholders (such as the CRA and taxpayers).

In any event, as the economy goes down, my bet is that all malpractice claims will increase as lawyers desperate for work either venture outside of their area of expertise or take on problem clients whom they might have once rejected to bring in extra revenue.

The firm's Impact clients range from large legacy for - profit businesses to newly formed, high - growth entrepreneurial ventures, each seeking to «grow their competitive advantage with Impact» by harnessing the positive power of businesses to generate revenue and solve endemic social problems.

The uninsured motorist problem in Texas costs money not only to the state government in the form of lost revenue, but also to insured motorists who have to pay much higher premiums for uninsured motorist protection.

→ Involved in many closures of new business resulting in monthly revenues in excess of target, while maintaining excellent customer service and support for customer renewals, and customer - centric problem resolutions.

Involved in many closures of new business resulting in monthly revenues in excess of target, while maintaining excellent support for customer renewals, problem resolutions and best - in - class service of key accounts.

→ Involved in many closures of new business resulting in monthly revenues in excess of target, while maintaining excellent customer service and support for customer renewals and problem resolutions.

Involved in many closures of new business resulting in monthly revenues in excess of target, while maintaining excellent customer service and support for customer renewals, problem resolutions and upgrades of advertising accounts