"They are more go-anywhere, core-type funds, " says Mr. Timmerman.

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At the end of the day, this is the core promise of any type of business software: improved business results.

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The other strategy, suitable for more advanced investors, is to create the type of core portfolio I describe above for about 50% of your assets.

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This means that the more than 10, 000 developers who work at SAP will now be able to incorporate Google Maps type functionality into its core functionality.

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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.

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The new rules require them to hold core capital of 10% and up to 9% of contingent capital, a type of debt that converts to equity in times of trouble, and to show how they would wind up their business in a crisis.

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This was one of the core beliefs that led us to organize the forum in the first place: that there was a unique type of innovation that was springing up across South Asia that would lend itself to further scale and adaption around the region.

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Theory suggests that a certain type of giant, short-lived star can experience catastrophic collapse when the nuclear reactions at its core can no longer support its mass.

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