As a result, a lot of core projects have been cut down from distant remote offices and moved closer to heart.
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When companies start investing shareholder cash in projects far outside their core businesses, it raises serious questions about focus.
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What do any of these projects have to do with core government functions?
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So on education, the two sides come out about even: you need both core skills (Asia) and original projects and interests (U.S.) for creativity.
Important projects stay close to heart at the core MTV development center.
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Google.org wants competition for ideas and projects, and like Google's core businesses, plans to make future moves based on feedback from earlier investments.
Also, as we saw with Microsoft and are now seeing with Google, platform companies can either become complacent and not regularly upgrade their technology, or they get distracted with side projects that also draw resources from their core offering.
The Register survey also finds considerable movement to virtualize both departmental and core enterprise applications, and companies that have implemented private cloud projects are pleased with the benefits delivered so far.
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It can maintain strength in its core business, while at the same time invest big time in long-term projects.
Aside from its core search business and the dozens or hundreds of private desires we type into its search box daily, its projects like Chrome OS and now Google Drive illustrate that Google wants private users and even businesses to someday store everything in the cloud.
Tanausu Ramirez, another Intel research scientist working on the 48-core chip said that instead of one core working at near top capacity and using a lot of energy, many cores could run in parallel on different projects and use less energy.
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