PC makers, intent on improving their profit margins, are aggressively pursuing "bounty" payments and revenue-sharing deals with online services and e-commerce partners.
Instead, some companies will have to stop chasing volume and concentrate on improving their profit margins by better and more efficient marketing.
By 2000, however, several of Caitac's biggest customers had moved the bulk of their manufacturing to Mexico, Guatemala and El Salvador, where cheap labor improved their profits.
Authorities around the globe are examining whether financial firms manipulated interest rates before and after the financial crisis to improve their profits and deflect scrutiny about their health.
My general view is that if information is out there that can lead companies to improve their profits, then they will do so unless it's regulated against.
Banks have struggled to improve their profits against the backdrop of the European sovereign debt crisis, a weak American economy and new regulations.
"In order to improve their profits builders complete the development, build the houses, but before any sales take place they sell the land to investment companies," he said.
Business on Wall Street has picked up somewhat in 2012, but firms are still cutting both compensation and other expenses to save money and improve their profits.
Even the theoretical possibility of such an event, though, helps put pressure on managements to improve their profits as well as to pay dividends to shareholders.
We'll cut hundreds of billions of dollars in waste and inefficiency in federal health programs like Medicare and Medicaid and in unwarranted subsidies to insurance companies that do nothing to improve care and everything to improve their profits.
