Sentence examples for its basic business from inspiring English sources

ChaCha, of course, has the added benefit of working on any device — not just a smartphone — but it looks like its basic business model was focused on scale that it just wasn't getting on that product: the idea in the UK was to disrupt the Q&A space by offering users the service at the same price as a regular text message.

It was the first entertainment industry to find its basic business model shaken by the Internet, when Napster in 1999 ushered in mass illegal file-sharing.

The idea is that a company's fortune won't come from its basic business but from something related to it.

Nonetheless, the company is not making much money at its basic business.

That might not have mattered if Daiei had remained successful in its basic business.

All the while, FreeMarkets kept at its basic business, signing up customers like Raytheon, Schering-Plough and Texas Instruments.

"The company is becoming more of a global operator," succeeding in adapting its basic businesses worldwide, he said.

Halliburton's stock had been an underperformer for much of the late 1980's and early 1990's, but what the company called a round of "strategic actions," including payroll cuts and a restructuring of its basic businesses, substantially improved the company's results beginning in 1992.

Callaway's two new balls represent a costly $170 million investment that takes the company well beyond its basic clubmaking business.

Still, analysts say server chips account for only a tiny percentage of Intel's chip volume and could not soon offset real slippage in its basic PC business.

At the same time, Microsoft -- which made a flurry of investments in the 1990's that led many media executives to say they feared that Microsoft might overwhelm them -- has recently focused on its basic software business.