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The companies that tend to pay dividends are in industries that are mature. A dividend payment is a sign that a company is no longer better off investing the cash into its own business. Technology companies typically pay fewer dividends than utility companies.
May 25, 2012 at 20:43 | Source: Seekingalpha.com
Several San Francisco Bay Area Target stores were the recent, uhhh, target of not one, but two unrelated barcode scammers who apparently found the manufactuer's suggested price of Lego sets too much to bear. The two men allegedly replaced the ...
May 25, 2012 at 21:04 | Source: CNET News
With growth slowing in a saturated wireless market and growing concerns about the duopolistic environment that the industry is heading toward, some of the smaller incumbents may be looking at ways to consolidate and grow through acquisitions.
May 23, 2012 at 23:58 | Source: Forbes
It's too early to say who will be the first player taken in the 2013 draft — could be University of Florida pitcher Karsten Whitson or another advanced college prospect or a high school stud like Austin Meadows, an outfielder from Georgia, or ...
May 27, 2012 at 19:50 | Source: Chicago Tribune
Microsoft declared that it has made good on what seemed like a lofty claim made just two months back that it plans to overtake iPhone’s market share in China. According to the company’s COO for the Greater China region, Microsoft’s Windows ...
May 22, 2012 at 23:52 | Source: Forbes
The Facebook I.P.O. has left a lot of egg on faces around Wall Street. Let us count some of the losers, reputation-wise, ranked from top to bottom. 1. High-frequency traders. Nasdaq blames order cancellations for its huge problems executing ...
May 21, 2012 at 21:38 | Source: New York Times Blogs
The biggest problem with Facebook Inc. (FB)’s botched IPO isn’t that there was no first-day “pop.” Or that the shares went into free fall over the next few days. It’s what it might do to investor confidence. Facebook’s initial public ...
May 24, 2012 at 01:10 | Source: Bloomberg
Last August, Google (GOOG) Chief Executive Officer Larry Page fulfilled a pledge made to one of his senior executives, a square-jawed former attorney named Dennis Woodside. Apple (AAPL) CEO Tim Cook had been trying to poach Woodside to make him ...
May 22, 2012 at 13:01 | Source: Businessweek
BOSTON (MarketWatch)—The average investor using a target-date retirement fund didn’t pick the fund because of its “glide path” or the asset allocation it will have when they reach retirement age. In fact, the average investor probably ...
May 28, 2012 at 00:15 | Source: Marketwatch
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Another showdown between Republicans in Congress and President Barack Obama over debt could be in the making, and some investors are already taking steps to prepare for it. While most of the market was focused on Europe's ...
May 24, 2012 at 14:39 | Source: Reuters