Apple to pay dividend, start stock buybacks

Thirty-six years after its founding, Apple Inc. is finally loosening up its purse strings to reward shareholders directly, by instituting a dividend and share buyback program.

Cisco to start paying a dividend by next summer

(AP) -- Cisco Systems Inc., the world's largest maker of computer-networking gear, said Tuesday that it would pay its first dividend by July, the end of its current fiscal year.

Apple has more cash than Uncle Sam

LOS ANGELES - Apple Inc. may not have more money than God. But it's got more cash than Uncle Sam.