Intel Doubles Dividend, Expands Buyback
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Intel Corp. (INTC.O: Quote, Profile, Research) , the world&#39;s largest maker of computer chips, said on Wednesday it would double its quarterly dividend to 8 cents a
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Vodafone announced on Tuesday an aggressive doubling of its dividend and a further increase to its share buyback programme in a firm sign that the mobile operator has listened to shareholder demands to increase its cash payouts.
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Vodafone, the world&#39;s largest mobile phone company, today gave shareholders an early Christmas present by doubling its half-year dividend to 1.91p and extending a share buy-back programme.
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Business & money: Fast food giant supersizes its dividend after reporting sales sizzling across the world.
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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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Intel Corp. , the largest maker of computer processors, posted a rise in second-quarter earnings on Tuesday, reflecting greater strength against rival AMD.
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Shares of Intel Corp. INTC.O rose  about 3 percent on Wednesday after the leading chipmaker  reported better-than-expected quarterly results and raised its  manufacturing spending plans.
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SAN FRANCISCO  - Texas Instruments Inc., the largest maker of chips for cellular phones, on Thursday said it plans to buy back $1 billion in stock and boost its quarterly dividend by more than 17 percent, becoming the latest technology company to return extra cash to investors.
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Intel Corp., the world's top  chipmaker, is set to increase its share of a growing global  semiconductor chip market this year to 12.2 percent, research  firm Gartner said on Friday.
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Microsoft increased its dividend by 11 percent as the company seeks to distribute more of the $34 billion that it has on hand.
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NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO  - Shares of Intel Corp.  INTC.O rose 2.4 percent on Wednesday after the leading  chipmaker reported better-than-expected quarterly results and  raised its manufacturing spending plans.
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Mobile phone titan Vodafone Group Plc doubled its half-year dividend to 1.91 pence, the top end of forecasts, and extended a full-year share buy-back program in a widely-anticipated handout to investors.
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The chip maker Texas Instruments said Friday that it had expanded its share buyback program by $5 billion, or about 10 percent of its market capitalization, sending shares up.
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This week, chip giant Intel is hosting its twice-a-year Intel Developer Forum, where PC hardware and software developers will hear the company&#39;s plans for future products.
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Texas Instruments Inc  said on  Friday its board has approved an additional $5 billion share  buyback and the company plans to raise its quarterly cash  dividend by 25 percent.
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Shares of Intel Corp. rose as much as 8.7 percent in Europe after a surprise pickup in demand for computer chips prompted the company to raise its fourth-quarter revenue forecast.
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General Electric Co., the biggest company by market value, said it will buy back as much as $15 billion in stock over three years and raised its quarterly dividend 10 percent, more than some analysts had estimated.