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Microsoft has announced major changes to the structure in its board. Veteran lead independent director John W. Thompson is stepping down from his role while Satya Nadella is re-elected as chairman.

Usama Jawad · Mar 15, 2023 with 4 comments

Microsoft has announced that it will be increasing dividend payments to shareholders later this year. Those who want the higher dividends must already hold the company's stock on November 17.

Paul Hill · Sep 21, 2022 with 2 comments

Microsoft has announced that it is making president Brad Smith the vice chair of its board of directors. The company has also set the annual shareholders meeting for November 30, 2021.

Usama Jawad · Sep 15, 2021 with 8 comments

Microsoft's board approved a dividend rate of $0.31 per share, an amount equal to last quarter's payout. It's been a great fiscal year for the company so high dividend were expected by investors.

Vlad Dudau · Dec 4, 2014 · Hot! with 8 comments

Steve Ballmer, Microsoft's former CEO, has offered his congratulations on the purchase of Minecraft, but his statement on the dividend seems to suggest that the company may have been considering more.

Brad Sams · Sep 18, 2014 · Hot! with 10 comments

Microsoft has said that two new individuals will be joining the company board and that two will be leaving as well. Those that are departing are Dave Marquardt and Dina Dublon to retire from board.

Brad Sams · Sep 16, 2014 · Hot! with 13 comments

Microsoft has announced that they will be repurchasing $40 billion dollars worth of stock and will increase the dividend the company is paying out by 22% which will appease many shareholders.

Brad Sams · Sep 17, 2013 · Hot! with 5 comments

Apple will make a rare out of sequence financial conference call on Monday morning to announce what it will do with its huge cash balance, which is now at a whopping $97 billion.

John Callaham · Mar 19, 2012 · Hot! with 57 comments

Microsoft Corp., the world's largest software maker, late Wednesday said its board raised its quarterly dividend 12.5 percent to 9 cents, citing confidence in its product lineup and growth prospects. The...

· Dec 15, 2005 with -1 comments

Move designed to boost share price, make company less attractive takeover target, say analysts. Nintendo said today that it expects the net profit for the full fiscal year ending March 31, 2005,...

· Apr 7, 2005 with -1 comments

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