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Entries Tagged as 'Revenue Models'

Why Sprint, Why? (Rate Increases? Really?)

January 27th, 2011 · No Comments · Android, Business, Business Practices, iPhone, market share, mobile phones, Rant, Rant, Revenue Models, Samsung, smartphones, Wireless

Sprint shall soon be adding $10/month to users of 3G smart phones. They already did that for the 4G phones and I didn’t care that much as I don’t have a 4G phone. In fact it’s one of the reasons I didn’t go out and snag a Samsung Epic. The phone looks cool as hell [...]

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Think Small And Go Big

April 21st, 2009 · No Comments · Business, business ideas, Business Practices, Deals, emerging markets, entrepreneurs, Mergers/Acquisitions, Revenue Models, start-ups

Many of us dream of going big. It was just announced that Oracle is buying Sun for $7.4 billion. Gee, wouldn’t it be nice to sell off your company for a few BILLION dollars? We keep seeing news blurb after news blurb about companies recording record profits (Exxon Mobile anyone?) or being bought for billions [...]

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New Revenue Models For Big Oil?

July 24th, 2008 · No Comments · Business, Business Practices, emerging markets, Other, Revenue Models

Will the big oil companies change their revenue models? This is a question that popped into my head as I saw a commercial for a petroleum company (it may have been Exxon…I don’t really watch enough TV to see commercials enough to remember who does what) talking about their commitment to finding new energy sources [...]

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