Microsoft Shareholders OK $3 Dividend
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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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Microsoft will take a 240-million-dollar stake in the wildly popular social networking website Facebook as part of an expansion of the two firms' strategic alliance, the companies said Wednesday.
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Altria Group Inc., parent of tobacco firm Philip Morris and majority owner of Kraft Foods Inc., said Wednesday that its board raised its quarterly dividend by 7.4 percent to 73 cents from 68 cents.
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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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Shareholders of Deutsche Bank AG&#39;s three Australian real estate investment trusts approved aA$3.3 billion ($2.4 billion) merger of the funds and a plan to buy $1 billion of US industrial property assets.
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Personal income, boosted by a large dividend payment from computer software giant Microsoft Corp., shot up by a record 3.7 percent in December.
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Thanks to a decline in Microsoft shares, the stock portion of the company's offer has dropped. That means that as of now Microsoft is offering less than it was four days ago. To match its original $31 per share offer, Microsoft would have to boost the exc
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Equity Office Properties Trust  shareholders on Wednesday overwhelmingly voted to approve Blackstone Group's bid of $23 billion plus the assumption of debt.
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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 that's part of the company's plan to return some of its $64.4 billion cash hoard to shareholders.
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Demand for the Vista Windows system and other products helps Microsoft to profits of $3.03bn, up 11% on last year.
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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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Demand for the Vista Windows system and other products helps Microsoft to quarterly profits of $3.03bn, up 11% on last year.
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As first reported by the Seattle Post-Intelligencer's Todd Bishop, the retrial of the long-running Eolas v. Microsoft case has come to an abrupt end. Eolas shareholders were notified on Monday, Bishop learned, to expect a very special dividend of between $60 and $72 per share.
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Microsoft Corp ended three years of resistance on Monday, finally agreeing to comply with a landmark 2004 antitrust decision by the European Commission.
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Rapidly rising Internet star Facebook Inc. has sold a 1.6 percent stake to Microsoft Corp. for $240 million, spurning a competing offer from online search leader Google Inc.
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Printer and PC maker Hewlett-Packard Co. said Monday it bought $1.3 million in common shares back from Merrill Lynch and its board approved the buyback of an additional $3 billion in shares.
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Microsoft Corp said on Wednesday it would pay $240 million for a minority equity stake in Facebook in a deal that values the social networking Web site at $15 billion.