Taken together, on an annualised basis, employees received the equivalent of 27% of the core equity in the firm, whereas shareholders got a return of zero.
While the fit between Terra and Lycos is superficially complementary, the combination may not bring any worthwhile new strengths to the core markets of either firm, apart perhaps from Spanish-speakers in North America.
Tom Kellermann, a former computer security official at the World Bank who now works at a firm called Core Security Technologies, said the most advanced hackers in the world are increasingly targeting financial institutions, particularly those involved in trading.
What's needed, they say, is a formula for kick-starting the firm's core brands like Budweiser, Bud Light and Michelob.
It also needs a good grasp of the firm's core competence: in this instance, knowing lots about yeast, a common factor in all of Kikkoman's activities.
There are, to be sure, plenty of scraps left around each firm's core business, and all three are right to try and get them when possible.
The challenge I find then is to balance this uncertainty, this humility, with the need to fight for deeply held convictions, to be open to other points of view but firm in our core principles.
While an increase in prime loan rates will likely impact both interest income as well as interest expense for Wells Fargo, the fact that Wells Fargo derives the majority of its funding from low cost core deposits will help the firm restrain its interest expense even as interest rates increase and thus boost its net interest margins.
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These trends are encouraging for the firm as they are core to its growth agenda.
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Purcell pushed Mack out in 2001 and retained control of the firm until the spring, when he faced unrelenting pressure from shareholders to divest the firm of the underperforming brokerage business and the credit-card unit and focus the firm back on its core strength: institutional securities.
But the RCI indicator is probably the one in our firm that we call our core model that most of our clients are into.
It proved possible to meet such a tight deadline only because Prosoz, a German software firm, had already developed the core of the application.
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At its heart is the firm's new quad-core Tegra 4 chip - which Mr Huang described as the fastest mobile processor on the market.
In a trading update, the firm said the number of installed core Optos ultra-wide field products had risen by 11% in the year to 4, 700.
"They completely abandoned their core buyer, " says Rebecca Lindland of forecasting firm Global Insight.
Typically a firm will focus on one or two core competences, and outsource other things to its allies.
The Israeli-born billionaire graduated from Michigan State and launched an ultra-successful private equity firm in 1995, acquiring non-core divisions of various Fortune 1000 companies.
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However, the firm warned that growth opportunities in its core markets in the UK and Ireland were "limited" and said it planned to "mitigate these risks through careful forecasting".
At the core of the vision is flexibility a firm must be able to make its operating costs, and therefore its computing and information costs, totally variable so that they go up and down with business volumes.
But he has said the firm still considers such funds as a "core" business.
The research firm says there are now more Mobile Gamers than Core Gamers, the largest segment last year.
Another partner in the core team at Kleiner China, Forrest Zhong, left the firm early this year to form South River Capital.
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The firm unites its disparate businesses through leveraging a common core of semiconductor components, a field in which it holds a strong position.
The global financial firm conceived a highly disruptive new business model for a core banking franchise.
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The firm's founder Jeff Bezos has maintained that its core bookselling operation moved into profit last year.
Market research firm Euromonitor International tracks private-label spending in the core grocery products sectors, including food, beverages and personal care.
The core development team is with Tap Internet, an e-services firm located in Michigan, USA. Tap Internet developed the original system for a college.
Fisher, the first outsider ever to run the 117-year-old firm, was widely credited with refocusing Kodak on its core business after previous CEOs had launched the company on disastrous forays into areas as far afield as batteries and pharmaceuticals.
Last year, a leading US-based sector-focused firm used deal diagnostics to sharpen the definition of its investment core and assess opportunities to grow beyond it.
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