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The future of the biggest domestic maker, AvtoVAZ, will depend on the outcome of a joint venture with Renault sealed this year in which the French firm acquired a 25% stake for $1 billion.What Indians wantFew joint ventures between a local firm and a foreign manufacturer have been as enduring and profitable as that of Maruti of India and Suzuki, a Japanese small-car specialist.

However, its mobile unit is not as profitable as that of Samsung or Apple because much of the demand was accounted for by its lower-margin mid-range devices.

Ford made money in Europe in six of the previous eight years and was profitable as recently as the first half of 2011.

Airbnb recently secured $1 billion in new funding at a valuation of $31 billion and, interestingly, it revealed that its business is now profitable as of the final part of last year.

Lutz has gone on record acknowledging the savvy of Toyota, which he says basically writes off what it loses on hybrids (still not profitable as of 2004) as part of the carmaker's marketing budget, and buys a ton of goodwill in the process.

But he adds: "My bet is that it wouldn't be as profitable as some of the other ones and while there would be people who would care about it, that's a real minority".

With effort, the plan may prove as profitable as some of the city's other recycling ventures.

Even so, combined, Mr Slim's Brazilian operations would be roughly half as profitable as those of the three local-telephony monopolies, reckons Sílvio Genesini of Accenture.

"I think there's no reason the Davis Cup couldn't be as powerful and popular and profitable as any of the four majors are today, given some changes," he said in a recent interview.

Bill Gates's company makes money by selling intellectual property, jealously guarding its programs' source code and fighting software piracy.It is something of an understatement to point out that, as a way of doing business, Red Hat's methods will never be as profitable as those of Microsoft.

SnipSnap CEO Ted Mann says while his service was profitable as of this past summer, they were still in the position of having to raise more cash to continue to grow the business or partner with another company.