The businesses would be worth more broken into pieces than as they are now stapled together.

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In particular, Ferragu thinks the company needs to be broken into pieces.

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Some investors have argued that Samsung would perform better if it was broken into three pieces: chips, phones and consumer electronics.

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Microsoft was originally supposed to be broken up into pieces after it was branded a monopoly by a federal judge in November 1999.

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Prince has been trying to make things right by shuffling executives and putting a big cost-cutting plan in motion, but that hasn't stopped speculation that the company would be better off broken up into pieces.

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Perhaps Monitor could have survived if it had broken itself into two pieces: a cash cow and an innovation engine.

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He rummaged around in his bundle and pulled out a small, battery-operated Craig amplifier, then plugged a lead into an acoustic guitar that was broken in front and had pieces of wood rattling around inside it.

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Each of those pieces can be extracted, explored, broken apart and made into something new.

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