Investors in Garmin have had a decent 2014. Year to date, shares are up better than 21%, outperforming the broader market. Despite a contraction in the company’s core GPS business, its “other” segments have enjoyed impressive growth.
Barnes & Noble just bought back Microsoft’s share in Nook in order to spin off the business. Source Barnes & Noble Even some of the smartest minds in business occasionally make bad investments.
CenturyLink Inc. ( CTL ), the third largest wireline service provider in the U.S. recently acquired DataGardens, a leading Canadian provider of software for cloud based disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS). However, the financial terms of the deal