And this new department would consolidate the core business and trade functions of six agencies.

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I've had only a few days to try out the new Office, so there are plenty of hard-core functions I have yet to discover.

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In his new role, Pagano will lead all of ESPN's core technical functions and operations including distribution, transmission, engineering, IT, software development, technology innovation and strategic technology forecasting across all areas of the company.

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In most cases the core business value chain will need to be opened up by mobile-enabling legacy enterprise applications, transactions, and databases to make core functions available on which to build a set of new mobile-friendly business functions.

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