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Texas Instruments Struggles But Is Still Fairly Valued

2015-05-25 13:32:55| Semiconductors - Topix.net

Shares currently trade in line with our fair value estimate, and we think its dividend growth prospects are as strong as ever. Texas Instruments is still reeling from its poor quarterly results in April, where the company blamed a number of weak verticals including telecom/communications equipment and consumer/personal electronics for its big miss.

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Goodbye, Homoeroticism?: A & F Struggles To Change Its Image In The Post Mike Jeffries Era

2015-05-24 17:08:46| Apparel - Topix.net

It's been a little over six months since Mike Jeffries , one of the few openly gay business leaders, resigned as CEO of Abercrombie & Fitch after several quarters of slumping sales and bad press. Over the years, 70-year-old Jeffries, who joined the company in 1992, developed a reputation for expressing his unfiltered douche bag opinions -from claiming the company only hires "good-looking" employees to admitting it doesn't make large sizes because it fears "fat" and "unpopular" people wearing its logo.

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Samsung Group struggles to find new growth engine

2015-05-10 17:12:55| Electronics - Topix.net

With heir apparent Lee Jay-yong filling the management vacuum left by his ailing father, Samsung chairman Lee Kun-hee, South Korea's largest conglomerate is trying to find new growth engines, acquiring foreign ventures at an increasing rate and jumping into new business areas. Since last May when its chairman was hospitalized due to a heart attack, Samsung has conducted eight mergers and acquisitions, almost equal to the combined number of M&As done by the conglomerate in 2012 and 2013.

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