Might other dividend holdouts Apple, Dell, eBay, Google and Yahoo follow Cisco’s recent example and also institute a dividend? Each one can easily afford a similar 2% yield, but whether to take that path isn’t an easy decision….
The awkward relationship between Yahoo and Chinese ecommerce giant Alibaba Group is growing even more uneasy. The latest indication: Alibaba wants to buy back some of its shares from stakeholder Yahoo, but Yahoo refuses to sell…
Mobile startup ChaCha, which provides answers via text message, is threatening to bail on T-Mobile over a proposed fee increase on texts. The move has aggregators, publishers and at least one consumer group raising the alarm. T…
Research In Motion reported better than expected earnings Thursday, blunting fears that the Blackberry-maker is losing ground to smartphone rivals Apple and Google. But investors pushed shares down 3% in after-hours trading on …
Net income for the quarter ended Aug. 31 was $1.35 billion, or 27 cents a share, up from $1.12 billion, or 22 cents, a year earlier, Oracle said in a statement today. Revenue surged 48% to $7.5 billion.
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