Cost-cutting has helped the company deliver profits in its core business, despite weaker revenue.
But that reflects an acquisition, suggesting that expectations for the core business have weakened.
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When the core business goes wrong, companies fix it from within or lose customers and credibility.
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Just how Akamai will integrate peer-to-peer file transferring with its core business remains a mystery.
Focus on sustaining innovations to your core business, and use those to feed disruptive ones elsewhere.
For credit card companies however, the change is a disruption to their core business.
Amazon and Apple are actually two totally different companies when it comes to their core business.
For some time, the two companies stayed with their core business, avoiding challenging each other.
"That's something very untraditional to the Asian market and to East West's core business, " he says.
Core business processes, and those that enable competitive differentiation, rise to the top of the list.
The Post is dealing with a steep decline in its core business of print advertising.
All the while, Xerox strengthened its core business by maintaining an organization-wide focus on innovation.
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And this new department would consolidate the core business and trade functions of six agencies.
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Google has rapidly branched out from its previous core business of search in recent years.
The FTC has also involved itself in the core business operations of the Internet.
In the past, sticking to its core business was seen as Munich Re's strength.
The core business emerged in a strong position just in time for the most recent run-up.
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It may cannibalise its core business but at least it will keep its customers.
He told Kitco News that instead, he looks at exploration companies, which is his core business.
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"Lending remains naturally a core business for us, " a spokeswoman for Raiffeisen Bank International said.
Investor Day were the presentations by Ross Levinsohn and Blake Irving on the core business.
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In some industries, the return on these political investments dwarf other potential investments in the core business.
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Even at Intel in the 1970s, its microprocessor was a sideshow to its core business, memory chips.
Since his return, Alibrandi has sold the company's network communications holdings and refocused on its core business.
Ask yourself this: is that core business worth at least what the market says AOL is worth?
The plain truth is that the Yahoo core business was in a terrible place a year ago.
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Yet tough competition in its core business at home is leading Wahaha to look into new businesses.
Furthermore, innovative business models have shifted to include corporate volunteer programs to help support core business functions.
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This means that some companies are saddled with toxic debts, even though their core business is sound.
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