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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
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
When asked why her husband seemed to be liked by everybody, Betsy Cronkite said: “I think it’s because he looks like everyone’s dentist. Both his father and grandfather were dentists, you know.” It’s a funny quip and probably true, writes Douglas ...
May 27, 2012 at 13:02 | Source: Houston Chronicle
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
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
The crew of the International Space Station got its first look at the inside of its newest visitor – Space Exploration Technologies Corporation's Dragon cargo ship – Saturday morning and pronounced it a keeper. The craft made aerospace ...
May 26, 2012 at 19:01 | Source: The Christian Science Monitor