In October, the Financial Times reported that in addition to selling-off non-core assets in Canada, VimpelCom is also looking to dispose of its non-core assets in Sub-Saharan Africa, Laos, and Cambodia.
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Besides the implementation of huge cost-cutting measures, the changes include plans to sell off non-core and strategically redundant business units.
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The sale and run-off of non-core assets, first set out in early 2009 at the start of the RBS's three-to-five-year recovery plan, meant a fifth of the balance sheet was to be non-core, and the balance sheet was to be halved in size.
Nvidia is likely to kick off quad-core phone sales just 2-4 months after the dual-core iPhone 5 arrives.
Starting in 1993 they began selling off non-core holdings, including a food processing business, an investment bank and a hotel.
Firms of every description sought to squeeze out inefficiencies, sell off non-core businesses and close redundant operations, all in the name of shareholder value.
Simultaneously, NSN is selling off non-core assets and increasing focus on wireless broadband which has strong long-term growth trends as opposed to the relatively stagnant landline market.
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The head of the bank has been under pressure to revive the struggling bank and increase capital by increasing earnings, selling off non-core business units and cutting costs.
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At the same time, NSN is selling off non-core assets and increasing focus on wireless broadband which has strong long-term growth trends as opposed to the relatively stagnant landline market.
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The company said it was pressing ahead with the sell-off as they were non-core assets which no longer fitted within its light oil-focused portfolio.
Just as fast is Dell's new XPS Gen5, which runs off a two-core Intel 955X chipset.
This might be its last major asset sale as it been selling off its non-core divisions to focus more on its main business offering.
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At CES today, Nvidia showed off its dual-core Tegra chips powering the coming LG Optimus 2X, which CEO Jen-Hsun Huang declared to be the first true SuperPhone.
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For example, in the case of a failing banking group, regulators could sell off its core activities - thereby maintaining continuity for depositors - while allowing the rest of the organisation to go through a bankruptcy process.
Ford revamped its lineup, sold off some of its non-core brands, and restructured some of its debts and union obligations.
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Issues regarding brand identity and the trade-off between profit and core values are ones that Major League Baseball will need to think about carefully as it decides how to sell advertising space on its website.
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He's beefed up the NFL's social media presence and now has 3.5 million Facebook friends and 2.1 million Twitter followers, helping turn off-season events that were once only for the hard core--like the draft combine and the draft itself--into huge spectacles.
Now that the Megahertz race has faded into the distance (we hear it was a myth), Intel is well and truly kicking off the start of a multi-core war with the demonstration of an 80-core research processor in San Francisco last week.
"Off-the-shelf" software will be tested to ensure that it meets core financial system requirements as defined in the Core Financial System Requirements document published by JFMIP.
Love is hoping he can keep things going by selling off pieces of the company, perhaps including non-core businesses or genes that it has found but has not intention of using.
For now, only a handful of smaller players nationwide is choosing to embed sustainability into the very DNA of what they do, incorporating environmental intelligence into core business activities with no trade-off in price or quality.
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Freibaum said some Rouse assets, including some land and "non-core" properties, could be sold to pay off debt.
As if the display wasn't enough, LG tops it off with one of the world's first Snapdragon 600 quad-core processors, 2GB RAM and a 13MP rear camera with all the trimmings.
Because the audience wasn't dominated by teenage girls, "The Hunger Games" didn't experience the drop-off in sales between Friday and Saturday common for films whose core fans are willing to invest the time and energy to secure a coveted seat at an opening-day screening.
The spike in core consumer prices may prove to be a one-off.
It wouldn't be much better for Vivendi executives who have been candid about their disinterest in NBC Universal, an asset they've publicly dubbed "non-core"--and, perhaps more poignantly, their desire to off-load it to get "more headroom, " as Vivendi Chief Financial Office Philippe Capron put it at a conference in Spain last week.
Since this would force banks to write off all goodwill against banks' core capital, this might result in a flurry of end-year deals.
As it turns out, it runs a quad-core version of AMD's new Temash chip, which is being billed as the first quad-core, x86-based SoC. (There's also a dual-core version.) Built into the chip is an HD Radeon 8000 series GPU with AMD's Graphics Core Next architecture, so in theory you should be able to pull off PC-caliber gaming even on a tablet.
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If, on second thought, you don't need all that, MSI is also showing off a 22-inch model, the AG2212, which will have optional discrete graphics and starts with a Core i3, not i5, CPU. Either way, pricing hasn't yet been finalized, so although we're not keen on the idea of a gaming desktop using mobile parts, we'll withhold final judgment until we see how inexpensive it is.
And to top it all off, the plan can't resolve the supply and demand problem that is at the core of the run-up in fuel prices.
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