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Blockbuster: We Haven't Abandoned 'Total Access,' We've Just Made It Profitable

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2008-05-15 14:00:00 by Peter Kafka in Silicon Alley Insider
...profitable. Most Total Access plans undercut Netflix (NFLX) subscriptions by $1, but Blockbuster won't get into an expensive market-share war with Netflix. The DVD mail-order market is a small one and not worth trying to dominate Call notes Blockbuster CEO Jim Keyes starts out the call by talking about the bid for Circuit City (CC We will...
 
Tags: rental, brings rental softness, in-store rental, rental dvd business, mail, mail-order business, core rental business, total access, business
 
 
 
 
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AdBrite wants to be profitable by firing 40% of workforce including two executives

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2008-10-17 06:13:00 by Shoaib Hashmi in Startup Meme
...profitable. Two executives, Paul Levine, Vice President marketing and Bob Feller, Vice President finance are also included in the list Though AdBrites CEO, Iggy Fanlo, argues that the companys performance cant be judged in the light of current step taken. In an interview, he said The layoffs are not a statement about performance, but about...
 
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AdBrite wants to be profitable by firing 40% of workforce including two executives

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2008-10-17 06:13:00 by Shoaib Hashmi in Startup Meme
...profitable. Two executives, Paul Levine, Vice President marketing and Bob Feller, Vice President finance are also included in the list Though AdBrites CEO, Iggy Fanlo, argues that the companys performance cant be judged in the light of current step taken. In an interview, he said The layoffs are not a statement about performance, but about...
 
Tags: profitable, company profitable, company, profitable immediately, current financial crisis, vice president, vice president finance, financial crisis, adbrite
 
 
 
 
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Hulu Profitable? Please

2008-11-17 14:44:00 by Henry Blodget in Silicon Alley Insider
 
...profitable We'll believe it when we see it It has been a while since we analyzed Hulu's profit potential, but when we looked at this issue a year ago, profitability seemed a pretty formidable goal. Based on Peter's write-up, it also appears that Arash is not referring to operating profit, but gross profit, which is what a company has left...
 
Tags: video file, average video file, file, online video monetization, online video, bandwidth costs decline, bandwidth, middleman, video middleman
 
 
 
 
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Fred Wilson: My Thoughts On 'Startup Depression'

2008-09-30 12:20:00 by Fred Wilson in Silicon Alley Insider
 
...profitable. That's spot on But I do think Jason's missing one important point in his email. It's not the venture backed startups that are going to struggle the most. Jason wrote It's my believe that the economic downturn will be much worse than it is today, and that 50-80% of the venture-backed startups currently operating will shut down or...
 
Tags: venture capital firms, capital, venture capital firm, additional capital infusions, venture firms, venture, venture capital business, venture cycle, startup
 
 
 
 
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Google Search To Surpass Size of Microsoft Windows in 2009

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2008-05-13 14:02:00 by Henry Blodget in Silicon Alley Insider
...profitable than the most profitable and legendary monopoly in history--Microsoft Windows. (Just Google's search business--that doesn't even include AdSense Before we go to the numbers, a few important observations Both products are natural monopolies. Google's share of the search market should continue to approach Microsoft's share of the...
 
Tags: windows, microsoft windows, microsoft, google, microsoft rearview mirror, billions google, pass microsoft, google natural monopoly, windows business
 
 
 
 
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Zoho's last stand

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2008-08-18 22:11:00 by Dan Farber in Webware.com
...profitable business. Companies invest in what generates the best return on investment," Vembu explained to me Credit: Zoho In an e-mail explaining his financial analysis, Vembu wrote We simply don't believe Google has the rational business incentive to go deep into the business/IT software category. The lower revenue and profit per employee...
 
Tags: google, google apps, apps, google platform, zoho, google suite, profitable, monopoly-profit core business, barely profitable business
 
 
 
 
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Video sharing site Break.com fire 11 employees

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2008-10-24 09:01:08 by Shoaib Hashmi in Startup Meme
...profitable. We have 80 people, are growing 100 percent year over year and still actively hiring for a bunch of jobs Furthermore he said At the end of our quarter we just looked at what was working well and are focusing more efforts on that The other stuff was working OK, but just not as profitable This is exactly what Gawker Media has also...
 
Tags: employees, profitable, profitable products, backup plan, jobs, plan, numerous jobs, job cuts, keith richman
 
 
 
 
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Artificial Abundance And Bubble 2.0

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2008-04-10 09:24:48 by Hank Williams in CenterNetworks
...profitable search revenue, and over zealous VCs, funding companies offering free services in categories that seemingly have little hope of generating revenue Artificial abundance is significant not because there are too many companies or products, but because of the psychology all of this deceptively free stuff is creating. Consumers are...
 
Tags: artificial abundance, free product, free, deceptively free stuff, free web operations, brian lehrer, brian lehrer live, free products, free services