Sentence examples for virtual profits from inspiring English sources

The buyer, who converted his $300,000 into 3.3m PED (Project Entropia dollars), is convinced that virtual shops on his virtual space station will produce virtual profits that can be converted back into real dollars.

(See Ingram's virtual profits).

Companies can manipulate their earnings (See Yahoo's virtual profits) figures through accounting decisions on depreciation, inventory and extraordinary charges, revenue is relatively difficult to manipulate, and the price/sales ratio is less volatile when compared with the P/E ratio.

Everyone including the Forbes Digital Tool expected miracles from Halla, who had helped LSI Logic (LSI) become a virtual profit machine.

And perhaps more fun still, if the songs that a user "signs" rank well with other users, and therefore rise on the Hit or Not genre charts, they can sell those tracks to make a virtual profit.

A US court ruled last month that it was illegal to sell software to cheat in the game, while in China the government has reversed an earlier position banning people from profiting on it, and instead instituted a 20% tax on "virtual currency" profits, according to the Financial Times (paid registration).

A 2012 USA Today exposé revealed that "virtual, for-profit K-12 schools have spent millions in taxpayer dollars on advertising" -- $94.4 million from 2007 to 2012.

Separately, Apollo and HealthNet have started a for-profit virtual doctors' visit business with telecommunication companies Aircel and Idea Cellular.

The lack of regulations has meant that even prisoners can be exploited in this virtual world for profit.

Virtual goods have profit margins of 70percentto90percentcent because they do not cost much to store, reproduce or distribute.

Robert Ridley, director of MMV, sees the venture as a "not-for-profit virtual drug company", combining public- and private-sector research through funding collaborative discovery and development projects.