Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...profit organization so it's clearly a publicity stunt," Hopke said in a telephone interview yesterday...
...Indoor competition was started more than a decade ago by CRASH-B, a non-profit organization from the Cambridge area...
Indeed we shall -- and indeed we are, for the battle is already well under way. Seldom have the opportunities for riches seemed so great, or the risks of failure so daunting, as in today's rush to profit from the information revolution. It is a contest that goes beyond who will build and control two- way TV, toward a fundamental reshaping of the communications, information and entertainment industries...
...century. But the more tantalizing question is just how the information titans will make their money. Spurred by forecasts that the worldwide market for everything from movies on demand to electronic shopping malls could reach $1 trillion within a decade, top corporate strategists are still debating whether they will profit most by distributing digital data, by owning it or by some combination...
...should be selling. Companies that focus on providing Hollywood-packaged films, for example, could find consumers turning to an array of low-budget movies (some of them interactive) produced by small studios or even amateur filmmakers using increasingly available commercial cameras and multimedia kits. But companies that look to profit as distributors run the risk of becoming little more than common carriers, with the danger that their ability to charge for use of their cables and phone lines might somehow be circumscribed...