skim off the top

A dip in what Apple and Google skim off the top of sales might still remake the app store experience, at least when it comes to what we see on the shelves there.

That enables these dealers to lie about prices, overcharge clients and skim off the top.

Amazon’s arrival in Arlington is expected to bump up tourism and lead to a boost in hotel revenue, which the county would then skim off the top to give to Amazon.

“They don’t want to take Fox News and offer it directly to consumers; they want to see if they can skim off the top some incremental dollars from cord-cutters,” Mr. Greenfield said.

‘Private insurers regularly skim off the top 10% to 25% of premiums for administrative costs, marketing and profits. The remainder is passed along a gauntlet of satellite businesses – insurance brokers disease management and utilization review companies lawyers and consultants billing agencies information management firms and so on. Their function is often to limit services in one way or another. They too take a cut including enough for their own administrative costs marketing and profit.’