Microsoft shareholders clear special dividend
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Microsoft Corp shareholders cleared the way for the world&#39;s largest software maker to pay out the largest corporate dividend ever next month and welcomed news of a blockbuster first day of sales for its video game Halo 2.
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Microsoft raised the dividend it pays out to shareholders by a penny per quarter to $0.10 on Wednesday, the same dividend as for chip giant Intel.
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Chicago Mercantile Exchange Holdings Inc.  on Thursday sweetened its bid for CBOT Holdings Inc.  with a $9.14-per-share special dividend for CBOT shareholders.
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For Microsoft Corp. shareholders, the holidays will likely come early this year in the form of a one-time &#36;3 dividend that's part of the company's plan to return some of its &#36;64.4 billion cash horde back to shareholders. But Microsoft won't hand out the cash unless shareholders allow the company to alter its stock compensation plans, so employees who hold stock options and stock awards aren't hurt by the dividend payout.
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No. 1 software maker Microsoft Corp.   MSFT.O on Thursday awarded restricted stock worth $951   million, based on its current share price, as performance   bonuses to some 900 executives and managers.
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Facebook will sell Microsoft a $240 million minority stake.
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Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates speaks Tuesday, Nov. 9, 2004 at Microsoft Corp.&#39;s annual shareholders meeting in Bellevue, Wash.
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Salt Lake-based Nevada Chemicals Inc. said Thursday that its board of directors has approved a quarterly dividend of 8 cents per share of common stock.  The dividend is payable Oct. 6 to stockholders of record Sept. 22.
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Microsoft Corp. , the world's  biggest software maker, on Wednesday said its board declared a  quarterly dividend of 10 cents per share, an increase of 1 cent  over the previous quarter.
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CVS Corp.  and Caremark Rx Inc.  said on Tuesday they had sweetened their merger deal, raising the proposed special cash dividend for Caremark stockholders to $6 per share from $2.
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Canadian brewer Molson Inc., concerned about having enough shareholder support to complete its merger with Adolph Coors Co., said Friday the companies have agreed to pay a special dividend
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SEATTLE - For Microsoft Corp. shareholders, the holidays will likely come early this year in the form of a one-time $3 dividend thatâs part of the companyâs plan to return some of its $64.
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By C. Grant Jackson, The State, Columbia, S.C.  Feb. 10--GREENVILLE -- Span-America Medical Systems declared a dividend of $0.08 per share payable March 5 to shareholders of record Feb. 19. The dividend is a 33 percent increase from the previous quarter.
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CVS Corp. boosted its bid yesterday for Caremark Rx Inc. by tripling to $6 per share the special cash dividend it plans to pay shareholders of the prescription drug benefits manager.
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Microsoft Corp.  on Thursday  lifted its full-year earnings outlook on strong demand for its  new Windows operating system and announced plans to buy back as  much as $40 billion of its stock, boosting its share price by 5  percent.
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BELLEVUE, Wash.  - Microsoft Corp. MSFT.O  shareholders on Tuesday approved changes to its stock-based  employee compensation plans that would maintain the value of  stock options and awards, allowing the software giant to go  forward with a planned $3-per-share special dividend.
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Paychecks stay the same for the top two, but compensation changes for other Microsoft workers as stock grants replace options.