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billion breakdown content data dollar less percent revenue slice small surprising voice wireless
I know that's a surprising statement, but look at the revenue breakdown in the business: Content sales?meaning games, music, video, etc.?brings in less than 1 percent of all wireless IT revenue. Voice is a $98 billion dollar market, and data is at $4 billion. But content is only a small slice of the $4 billion data figure. Trip Hawkins
billion dollars pay
I'm addicted. They should pay the billion dollars and get it over with. Jim Long
billion phone sure
I'm sure he's getting a billion phone calls. I'm sure he's savoring the moment. Adam Everett
billion california department huge shape since spent state
In general, you could say our freeways are in much better shape than they used to be. (The California Department of Transportation) has spent $6 billion since 1969. There's been a huge state investment.
billion born business enjoyed grown learning magic run stretched
Not everyone is born to run a $4 billion company. There is no magic formula. I've learned, and I've grown by learning. That's why I've enjoyed being in business so much: It's stretched me.
billion sites views virtually
It's virtually impossible for most sites to do a billion page views in a month or even a year. Ross Levinsohn
billion dollars next reach reached took
It took us 23 years to reach the first billion dollars in revenues while we reached the next billion dollars in 23 months. Nandan Nilekani
billions cost fix sexy
It will cost billions to fix it, but unfortunately for environmentalists, it's not a very sexy problem.
billions dollars five rebuild
It will take billions of dollars to rebuild ... To reconstruct this will take five to 10 years, Jan Egeland
billion care hiv needs number poor sure treat year
The world needs $10 billion a year to treat those with HIV in the poor nations, to make sure that the number of new infections is going down dramatically, and to take care of orphans, Peter Piot
billion businesses carriers charge consumer consumers economical enjoy estimate european greater per services states surplus union united united-states welfare wireless
The use of wireless telecommunications services in the United States generated a consumer surplus of $157 billion per annum in 2004. Were U.S. carriers to charge at European Union levels, we estimate that the U.S. consumer surplus from wireless services would be halved, demonstrating that U.S. consumers and businesses enjoy substantially greater economical welfare from wireless services than their EU counterparts do.
billion cause delay lawsuits planned problems tactic using wants
They are using every stall tactic they can to postpone a ruling. I think MasterCard wants to delay the lawsuits because it could cause problems for their planned $2.5 billion IPO.
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There's literally billions of dollars of economic opportunity at stake. North Carolina needs to figure out how to position its businesses and economy to take advantage.
billion excited number trade
The trade number was a little better than expected, but $65.7 billion is nothing to get too excited about. Grant Wilson
billion debt further likely raise require
The transaction will likely require Watson to raise another $1 billion in debt and will further dilute its already industry-lowest margins. Megan Murphy
billions companies dollars enterprise global goods legitimate
The trafficking of counterfeit goods is a global enterprise that robs legitimate companies of billions of dollars in revenues every year.
billion entrusted money results taxpayers
What are the results and how much money have we saved? ... What are we getting for the $65 billion the taxpayers have entrusted us with?
billions dollars local merit primarily projects serve spend
We spend billions of dollars on projects with very little merit that serve primarily local interests.
billion diseases spend year
We spend $117 billion a year on obesity-related diseases and 300,000 Americans die, Tommy Thompson
billion competition expect further internet technology
We expect further escalation of Internet technology competition in 2006 to $2.7 billion up from $1.9 billion in 2005.
billions bringing economic ensure forefront investment jobs texas thousands
This legislation will ensure that Texas is at the forefront of the telecommunications industry, bringing thousands of new jobs and billions of economic investment to our state.
billion changed looked since
This is what we looked like 4.5 billion years ago. Comets haven't changed since then.
billion bottom company good squeeze year
They're doing phenomenally on the bottom line. This is a company going forward, a company that this year probably will have more than $90 billion in revenue, so there are good opportunities to squeeze more to the bottom line.
billion excess several solid
They're all solid companies. Several have revenues in excess of $1 billion and all are profitable.
billion cents certainty difficult earnings expect market per predict quarter range remains revenue share short third thus volatile
In the short term, the market remains volatile and thus difficult to predict with much certainty, ... However, we expect third quarter revenue to be in the range of $8 billion to $8.4 billion ... and earnings per share of 7 cents to 9 cents.
billion lives poor third three
In the Third World, there are 1.3 billion poor people. In other words, one out of every three inhabitants lives in poverty. Fidel Castro
billion decided drop expecting fourth investors profit
Investors are disappointed because they were expecting around 5 billion riyals of profit in the fourth quarter. They then decided that the drop was too steep.
billion decided drop expecting fourth investors profit
Investors were disappointed because they were expecting around 5 billion riyals of profit in the fourth quarter. They then decided that the drop was too steep.
billion brazil creating five footprint likely next spend
In the next five years we will most likely spend $1.5 billion to $2 billion in Brazil on development. We will be creating a footprint that is very strong.
billion bring call category decade deficit dwight eisenhower freeze lowest national next president reduce share since spending
In the budget, the president will call for a five-year freeze on discretionary spending other than for national security. This will reduce the deficit by more than $400 billion over the next decade and bring this category of spending to the lowest share of our economy since Dwight Eisenhower was president. Jacob Lew
billion purchases studio
In that $1.2 billion spent, that's not just going to salaries or studio rentals, it's going to purchases that are very wide-based.
billion costs develop dollars maybe trying
If you're trying to develop a new drug, that costs you a billion dollars to get through the FDA. If you want to start a software company, you can get started with maybe $100,000. Peter Thiel
billions build cost excite measured
If you were to build a Yahoo! or an Excite today, the cost of doing so would have to be measured in the billions of dollars, George Bell