News tagged with dividends
Apple CEO Cook gives up $75M in stock dividends
(AP) -- Apple CEO Tim Cook is giving up $75 million in dividends on restricted stock that the company is awarding to all of its employees.
May 25, 2012 |
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Yahoo to sell half of its Alibaba stake for $7.1B (Update)
(AP) -- Struggling Internet company Yahoo Inc. has secured a lifeline after agreeing to sell half of its prized stake in Chinese e-commerce group Alibaba for about $7.1 billion, with most of the cash going to shareholders.
May 21, 2012 |
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Intel raises dividend by 7 percent to 22.5 cents
(AP) -- Intel Corp. is raising its quarterly dividend by 7 percent to 22.5 cents.
May 07, 2012 |
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IBM raises dividend, approves stock buyback
(AP) -- IBM Corp. is raising its quarterly dividend and repurchasing $7 billion more of its stock under a new buyback program.
Apr 24, 2012 |
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Tech dividends: What fund investors should know
(AP) -- Investing is about give and take. Consider growth-oriented companies, which are focused on building business and expanding market share. When the economy improves, their stocks are likely to rise more sharply than ...
Apr 13, 2012 |
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Apple's next hot release: The dividend check
(AP) -- Apple made computers sexy. Can it do the same for the musty old dividend?
Mar 20, 2012 |
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Apple's dividend heralds 'changing of the guard'
What would Steve have done? It's a question that Apple CEO Tim Cook can't escape. From the naming of the new iPad to his choice of clothing at public events, company-watchers parse Cook's every move, looking ...
Mar 19, 2012 |
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Apple's stock closes above $600 for first time
Apple's stock closed above $600 for the first time Monday, the same day the company announced plans to reward shareholders with a dividend and a share buyback program.
Mar 19, 2012 |
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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.
Mar 19, 2012 |
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Apple to make announcement on huge cash holdings (Update)
Apple scheduled an announcement Monday on plans for its huge cash balance, estimated to be at least $97 billion from sales of its hugely successful gadgets like the iPad and iPhone.
Mar 18, 2012 |
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Qualcomm ups dividend, approves up to $4B buyback
(AP) -- Mobile phone chip-maker Qualcomm Inc. said Tuesday that its board approved the increase of its quarterly dividend by 16 percent to 25 cents and up to $4 billion in stock buybacks.
Mar 06, 2012 |
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German software giant SAP raises dividend
German software giant SAP said on Friday it would pay a substantially increased dividend to shareholders for 2011, its 40th anniversary year, which was its best-ever in terms of profits.
Feb 24, 2012 |
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Apple CEO hints company will part with some cash
(AP) -- Apple CEO Tim Cook believes the world's most valuable company has more money than it needs. His next challenge is to figure out whether Apple should break from the cash-hoarding ways of his predecessor, the late ...
Feb 23, 2012 |
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Alibaba to reach out to Yahoo CEO on stalled deal
(AP) -- Alibaba Group and Japan's Softbank will go directly to Yahoo's chief executive, bypassing negotiators from the U.S. Internet company, after talks over the sale of Yahoo's Asian holdings broke down, a person familiar ...
Feb 15, 2012 |
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Cisco beats estimates with 2Q earnings, sales (Update)
(AP) -- Cisco, the world's largest maker of computer networking equipment, on Wednesday said that its net income jumped 44 percent in the latest quarter as it continues to put last year's slump behind it.
Feb 08, 2012 |
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