But after four quarters of stalled and then sinking revenue, Big Blue may be preparing to put its first foot on the bottom.
The company also said Thursday that it expects flat or sinking revenue of $6.2 billion to $6.3 billion in 2006, compared with $6.3 billion in 2005.
Though it does run the Relationship Network of Web sites, James says the low cost of online personals has sunk revenue for all personal services.
The company's profits are sinking and revenue is forecast to decline by 3% this year.
By 2004 he had, despite a few years of sinking advertising revenue, delivered the firm's highest ever operating profit, of €336m.
A society that fails will see other problems multiply in the form of political unrest, sinking tax revenue and soaring debt.
For December, combined revenue sank 2percentt, as national revenue declined 5percentt and local revenue declined 1percentt.
With advertising revenue sinking across the magazine industry, the granddads of the field, Golf and Golf Digest, now find themselves also competing with the three-year-old American Express Publishing's Travel & Leisure Golf, and with brash start-ups like Maximum Golf, Fringe Golf and Schwing!, which was co-founded by Adrian Young, a member of the rock band No Doubt.
King Power's net revenues, after sinking to $91 million last year, will probably rebound to $99 million in 1999, based on first quarter results.
An acquisition by Google would also take the pressure off Twitter to monetize directly, which hasn't been going well with revenue growth sinking fast.
