It appeared to me that they were struggling with integrating the addition of two young children, Jared's recent job change, and the large-scale investment of buying a new home.
EasyJet and Ryanair enjoy tremendous economies of scale in terms of buying aircraft, crew rostering … Everyone says they want to turn into a low-cost airline but it's very difficult to replicate.
Just the sheer scale and cost of buying servers and continual research costs means that any rival is having to support fixed costs with a far lower rate of monetization and fewer users, creating almost no path to financial viability for a Google competitor.
The goal is not to topple a king but to become one – a king of each regional market where potential buyers already own newspapers and can achieve economies of scale by buying pieces of Knight Ridder.
The goal is to become a leader in each regional market where potential buyers already own newspapers and can achieve economies of scale by buying pieces of Knight Ridder.
Last March, Representative Doug LaMalfa, California Republican, sent a letter to D.H.S. Secretary Janet Napolitano with questions about the timing and "astonishing scale" of ammunition buying.
But because there is no foreseeable path to widespread adoption (on the scale of everyone buying smartphones in the mid-2000s) because of the expense of building these systems and the short supply of talent, this third wave is, to slightly modify the title of a Cormac McCarthy novel, no country for young companies.
And a merger would bring considerable economies of scale.Yet buying Clear Channel Outdoor would not be easy.
There may be economies of scale in buying components and in spreading research-and-development costs over more cars.
"We could achieve extraordinary economies of scale by buying in one central entity, in one central way, managing this centrally," he said.
New York City is critical to Edison because the company's success depends largely on size, generating economies of scale in buying textbooks, computers and the like to help lower costs and generate profits.
