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Dividend At Last!
Talkback The term "Digital Dividend" has been used so many times that it has become a holistic metaphor. Companies have been waiting for a long while when this dividend, generated by phasing out analog TV will actually be realized.
[December 13, 2007, 11:21]
Microsoft Sets Dividend, Splits Stock
News Microsoft set its first-ever annual stock dividend on Thursday and said it will split its stock as quarterly earnings surpassed expectations. In an unexpected move, the software titan announced an annual dividend of 16 cents per share prior to a 2...
[January 17, 2003, 8:14]
Banking The "Demographic Dividend": How Population Dynamics Can Affect Economic Growth
White Papers This paper synthesizes recent research that sheds light on the debate over the impact of population dynamics on economic development in particular, the importance of age structure. The paper also examines the relationship between population change...
[February 28, 2005, 23:00]
Microsoft Shareholders Still Waiting For Payout
News Microsoft has dashed shareholder hopes of a dividend payout after saying it will sit on its $40.5bn war chest until the threat of further litigation passes. At an annual meeting in Bellevue, Washington, shareholders asked if the company plans to...
[November 6, 2002, 9:20]
Bullying Outsourcers Could Be Costly
News Companies that use harsh service level agreements to bully their outsourcing supplier could be missing out on a "trust dividend" worth up to 40 per cent of the total contract value. We found that contracts with well-managed relationships based on...
[November 25, 2005, 8:35]
Microsoft Decides To Share The Wealth
News Microsoft said on Tuesday that it will boost its dividend, buy back shares and offer a $3 (£1.62)-per-share one-time payout as part of a plan to return up to $75bn to shareholders over the next four years.
[July 21, 2004, 9:25]
Simplistic
Talkback The point of taking some of the profit as dividend was meant as an incentive to those who choose to take the risk of going it alone. Actually, many of us choose to keep out of this all together by not taking any dividend and taking it through PAYE...
[January 22, 2007, 15:52]
Gates Gives Away $3bn Bonus
News As part of a plan announced Tuesday to distribute $75bn to shareholders during the next four years, stockholders will receive a one-time dividend of $3 per share. Microsoft also plans to spend about $14bn to boost its dividend to a total of 32...
[July 21, 2004, 8:50]
EC Proposes TV Spectrum For WiMax
News Noting that plans were already underway across Europe to open up the 2.6GHz band for mobile broadband usage, which could be WiMax or a variation of 3G, she again called the so-called digital dividend — the freeing up of spectrum brought about by...
[June 13, 2007, 11:30]
Share Register
Downloads Ability to create your own customizable transaction type of which some standard transaction types are "ALT" Allotment, "DIV" Dividend, "ISS" Issue and "TRF" Transfer. Use the in-built email generator to send out customized letters to the...
[April 17, 2008, 3:31]
Compaq Cuts Record Quarter
News Also today, Compaq announced that its board of directors had approved a quarterly dividend of three cents per share, and a two-for-one stock split. The dividend is payable on January 20, 1998, to shareholders of record on December 31.
[October 16, 1997, 15:15]
Vodafone Narrows Operating Loss
News Vodafone announced its shareholders will have a final dividend of 4.41p per share, representing a 14 percent increase over last year's final dividend. Vodafone has slashed operating losses but European red tape and mobile phone market saturation is...
[May 30, 2007, 9:22]
HP, Novell Do Desktop Linux Deal
News The preferred shares come with a dividend of 2 percent per year, which Novell pays in cash quarterly. Because Novell's stock price has increased since the investment plan was announced in November, Novell expects to record a non-cash dividend of...
[March 25, 2004, 8:25]
Cabinet Office Pushes For Shared Services Adoption
News It's based on a thin-client architecture, which has a green dividend too. There is also a further dividend for the Cabinet Office in terms of green IT and budget costs. Recently the Cabinet Office has embraced shared back-office services under the...
[October 26, 2007, 13:09]
Microsoft Earnings Deflated By AOL Settlement
News Connors said legal and business uncertainties were behind the decision not to immediately raise its dividend or to offer a one-time payout to shareholders, as some investors had hoped Microsoft might do.
[July 18, 2003, 14:31]
Cisco: Success Isn't Just About Networking
News So, at some point in time will we pay a dividend? What's your current thinking on paying out a dividend? If the market would have a changed perception on that and want us to pay a dividend, then we'd pay that.
[April 18, 2005, 18:35]
No Win Situation For The Employees.
Talkback I once worked for a company who's US shareholders took them to court for announcing a final dividend down on previous estimates due to a far east recession. The US court upheld the shareholder complaints meaning that the R&D and investment budget...
[February 19, 2008, 8:15]
Time Computers Denies Tales Of Woe
Talkback I received my package saying that unsecured creditors will be receiving no dividend.yet here is the company back in business, what is going on?
[September 28, 2005, 16:56]
Google Tight-lipped On UK Spectrum Bid
News Google has refused to comment on speculation that it might bid for radio spectrum in the UK, after Ofcom announced plans to auction radio frequencies as part of the "digital dividend". The term "digital dividend" refers to the freeing up of radio...
[December 14, 2007, 15:16]
Time For The Ministry Of Information?
Talkback We already pay through the nose for Ordnance Survey data (OS now submitting a healthy dividend to Gord) which hampers a great many activities (including Local Authorites). A source of revenue? Ah, a Tax on information!
[August 10, 2005, 12:26]
