Word: profits
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Strong Signals Swedish telecom giant Ericsson announced a quarterly profit of $19.4 million, its first since 2001. Global mobile-phone sales are estimated to have risen...
...site will also contain rehearsal rooms and office space for the Carr Foundation and other Cambridge non-profit organizations...
...found some of the worst at Tyco Fire & Security, best known for its ADT home security alarm subsidiary. By manipulating the way payments for its accounts with local dealers of security systems were recorded, Tyco executives allegedly overpaid for accounts, shifted the money around and then counted it as profit. Breen fired 15 top executives at the unit, which was also implicated in some of Kozlowski's exploits, including a 13-day hotel stay in London billed...
...announced an end to their long and lucrative partnership. As a team, they had given moviegoers some of the greatest animated films in history, from Toy Story to last year's Finding Nemo, hauling in a total of $2.6 billion at the box office. The two studios have a profit-sharing deal, but Pixar wanted to end it early and pay Disney a straight distribution commission. Despite 10 months of negotiating, the two were still at loggerheads. Finally Pixar CEO Steve Jobs abruptly ended the talks, saying Pixar would pick up its toys and go elsewhere...
...same conclusion. Rejecting common notions of the venerable fourth estate operating on people’s behalf to check government power, the White House views the media as a self-serving special interest. While there are certainly valid reasons to distrust the press—especially its contemporary profit-driven variations—the Bush White House seems to believe that an ideal press should serve as a mouthpiece for its pre-packaged sound bites, and that anything less is a profiteering scheme...