Microsoft Returning $75B to Shareholders
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Microsoft Returning $75B to
Shareholders (AP)
Microsoft Returning $75B to
Shareholders (AP)
07/21/2004 09:38 AMAP - Bowing to pressure after years of enormous profits but a
stagnating stock price, Microsoft Corp. is dipping into its
substantial cash reserves with plans to return as much as $75
billion to shareholders through a combination of dividends and stock
buybacks.
Microsoft returning $75 billion to
shareholders
Microsoft returning $75 billion to
shareholders
07/21/2004 12:47 PMMiami Herald Jul 21 2004 5:13PM GMT
Microsoft to Pay Shareholders Up to
$75B (AP)
Microsoft to Pay Shareholders Up to
$75B (AP)
07/20/2004 06:23 PMAP - Microsoft Corp. plans to pay out a substantial chunk of its cash
hoard directly to shareholders through a combination of dividends and
stock buybacks totaling up to $75 billion over four years, the
software maker said Tuesday, ending speculation about what it planned
to do with its billions in cash reserves.
Microsoft to Pay Shareholders Up to $75B
Microsoft to Pay Shareholders Up to $75B
07/20/2004 09:11 PMABCNEWS.com Jul 21 2004 1:27AM GMT
Microsoft gives shareholders 75 Billion
Microsoft gives shareholders 75 Billion
07/21/2004 04:20 PMWow imagine sitting around the board room and yawning and
suggesting to throw 75 billion dollars back to the investors. That
would wake you up but heck if they have so much money they ought to
give me a call. I have a couple of ideas, just need someone smarter
than I am to get it rolling. The bad thing about the really good ideas
is that you have to be careful in who you tell or the next thing you
know your idea is launched by the person you talked to. I guess that's
why I have to sign Non Disclosure agreements all the time. Anyway
congrats to the stock holders now if only Intel could afford to do
something like that I would be a happy man. [www.
siliconvalley.com]
Microsoft To Pay $75 Billion To
Shareholders
Microsoft To Pay $75 Billion To
Shareholders
07/21/2004 09:34 PMPBS Jul 22 2004 1:42AM GMT
Update 11: Microsoft to Pay Shareholders
Up to $75B
Update 11: Microsoft to Pay Shareholders
Up to $75B
07/20/2004 10:59 PMForbes Jul 21 2004 3:10AM GMT
Update 10: Microsoft to Pay Shareholders
Up to $75B
Update 10: Microsoft to Pay Shareholders
Up to $75B
07/20/2004 09:11 PMForbes Jul 21 2004 1:30AM GMT
Microsoft to pay out billions to
shareholders
Microsoft to pay out billions to
shareholders
07/20/2004 11:28 PMSiliconValley.com Jul 21 2004 2:04AM GMT
Microsoft Shareholders Rake It In
Microsoft Shareholders Rake It In
07/20/2004 09:22 PMMicrosoft plans to pay out a substantial chunk of its cash hoard
directly to shareholders through a combination of dividends and stock
buybacks totalling up to $75 billion over four years, the software
maker said Tuesday. By Associated Press (via MyAppleMenu)
Update 6: Microsoft to Pay Shareholders
Up to $75B
Update 6: Microsoft to Pay Shareholders
Up to $75B
07/20/2004 08:01 PMForbes Jul 20 2004 11:53PM GMT
Microsoft to pay $75b to shareholders
over 4 years
Microsoft to pay $75b to shareholders
over 4 years
07/21/2004 12:57 AMXinhua News Agency Jul 21 2004 5:08AM GMT
Microsoft Shareholders to Get $75
Billion
Microsoft Shareholders to Get $75
Billion
07/21/2004 09:15 AMeWeek Jul 21 2004 1:01PM GMT
Microsoft to pay US$75 billion to
shareholders over 4 years
Microsoft to pay US$75 billion to
shareholders over 4 years
07/21/2004 12:57 AMEastDay Jul 21 2004 5:11AM GMT
Microsoft announces scheme to pay US$75b
to shareholders
Microsoft announces scheme to pay US$75b
to shareholders
07/22/2004 01:12 AMeTaiwanNews.com Jul 22 2004 5:41AM GMT
Microsoft shareholders mixed up by
message
Microsoft shareholders mixed up by
message
07/24/2004 06:01 AMFinancial Post Jul 24 2004 9:14AM GMT
Microsoft Unveils Shareholders Pay Plan
Microsoft Unveils Shareholders Pay Plan
07/20/2004 05:53 PMMicrosoft will pay up to $75 billion of its cash hoard directly to
shareholders through a combination of dividends and stock buybacks.
Microsoft plans $75 billion payback for
shareholders
Microsoft plans $75 billion payback for
shareholders
07/21/2004 08:10 PMIrish Times Jul 22 2004 0:52AM GMT
Microsoft Plan Could Give Shareholders
$75 Billion
Microsoft Plan Could Give Shareholders
$75 Billion
07/20/2004 06:13 PMThe plan includes a switch to a quarterly dividend of 8 cents per
share and the buyback of as much as $30 billion in stock over the next
four years.
Microsoft announces plans to pay as much
as $75 billion to shareholders
Microsoft announces plans to pay as much
as $75 billion to shareholders
07/21/2004 04:09 AMSan Francisco Chronicle Jul 21 2004 8:05AM GMT
Microsoft Gives $32 Billion Cash
Windfall To Shareholders
Microsoft Gives $32 Billion Cash
Windfall To Shareholders
07/21/2004 09:15 AMWebProNews Jul 21 2004 1:12PM GMT
Microsoft Sends Pennies Down to Fund
Shareholders
Microsoft Sends Pennies Down to Fund
Shareholders
07/24/2004 11:08 PMWashington Post Jul 25 2004 2:23AM GMT
Microsoft to share $75 billion bounty
with shareholders
Microsoft to share $75 billion bounty
with shareholders
07/22/2004 08:07 AM123Bharath.com Jul 22 2004 12:13PM GMT
Microsoft shareholders hear about new
products, not old lawsuits
Microsoft shareholders hear about new
products, not old lawsuits
11/12/2003 02:56 PMCRM Assist Nov 12 2003 2:20PM ET
Microsoft unwraps plan to repay
shareholders
Microsoft unwraps plan to repay
shareholders
07/20/2004 11:14 PMMicrosoft Corp. said today that it will return a total of about $75
billion to its shareholders over the next four years, including a
special, one-time dividend of $3 per share.
Microsoft plans to return billions to
shareholders
Microsoft plans to return billions to
shareholders
07/21/2004 12:57 AMStraits Times Jul 21 2004 4:59AM GMT
Microsoft shareholders approve stock
plan
Microsoft shareholders approve stock
plan
11/11/2003 02:08 PMZDNet Nov 11 2003 1:25PM ET
Microsoft announces plans to pay out
billions to shareholders
Microsoft announces plans to pay out
billions to shareholders
07/21/2004 12:57 AMSan Jose Mercury News Jul 21 2004 4:46AM GMT
Shareholders approve Microsoft stock
plan
Shareholders approve Microsoft stock
plan
11/11/2003 02:01 PMThey give their endorsement to the software giant's plan to start
awarding restricted stock to employees instead of granting stock
options.
Microsoft to Bestow $75 Billion Windfall
on Its Shareholders
Microsoft to Bestow $75 Billion Windfall
on Its Shareholders
07/20/2004 09:27 PMThe company will also buy back as much as $30 billion of its own stock
over the next four years, making it the largest stock buyback plan
ever.
Microsoft Outlines Quarterly Dividend,
Four-Year Stock Buyback Plan, And
Special Dividend to Shareholders
Microsoft Outlines Quarterly Dividend,
Four-Year Stock Buyback Plan, And
Special Dividend to Shareholders
07/20/2004 11:16 PM"We are confident in our long-term ability to grow revenue, profits
and shareholder value through our innovation and execution. We have
been successful in addressing a significant portion of our ongoing
legal exposure, and all seven of our businesses are growing," said
Steve Ballmer, Microsoft's chief executive officer. "We will continue
to make major investments across all our businesses and maintain our
position as a leading innovator in the industry, but we can now also
provide up to $75 billion in total value to shareholders over the next
four years."
Returning to the Big Apple
Returning to the Big Apple
02/01/2005 09:14 PMI'm coming back to New York City today! Yay! People instead of snow!
Tall buildings instead of tall trees! Polluted air instead of clean!
Yay yay yay! On Friday I'll be speaking at NYU at the 13th Annual
Stern Women in Business Conference. I'll be on the panel, Harness Your
Entrepreneurial Spirit. And on Sunday I'm going to run a 5K and get
ready to cheer on the Pats in the Super Bowl. And in between, I'm just
going to savor the city in all its big bustling citiness!
returning home
returning home
02/01/2005 10:04 PMIn 20 minutes, I'm getting in a car to go to the airport to fly to Sao
Paolo, to fly to Chicago, to fly to San Francisco, to get in a car to
go home. It has been an insanely intense few days in this astonishing
place.
This morning's panel was packed in what seemed to be an old factory.
The room was overflowing with at least 1,500 people, and a panel of 5.
Manuel Castells began, with a careful and extremely interesting
diagnosis of the net's development. I then described the remix culture
culture has been (legal and free) and the remix culture culture could
be (amazing and diverse) and the blocks to that new culture coming
about (law). Christian Alhert told the story of the BBC's Creative
Archive. And JP Barlow gave one of the most intense and powerful
speeches I've ever seen him deliver. This place is personal to him.
Then Gil spoke. Needless to say, the warm up acts were just that. He
electrified the audience, delivering a written speech as poetry slam.
He promised more support for free software, and free culture. And he
again embraced the Creative Commons movement in Brazil, which is
exploding everywhere here. Again he took questions. Again he answered
critics, directly, and passionately. I was reminded of his comment to
me in the car the other night: we're just citizens here.
After lunch, I visited the Youth Camp at the WSF, where 50,000 tents,
and 80,000 kids are participating in WSF events. At the core was a
Free Software lab, with about 50 machines, all running GNU/Linux, and
constant lessons about how to set the systems up, how do to audio, and
video editing, how to participate in free software communities. This
was organized totally by the kids who ran it. Machines in shacks, hay
on the ground, wires and boxes everywhere.
I got to talk to the organizers of at least one part of the lab for
about an hour. JP Barlow and I peppered them with questions as they
described their "Thousand points of culture" project -- to build a
thousand places around Brazil where free software tools exist for
people to make, and remix, culture. The focus is video and audio; no
one's much worried about Office applications, or the like. It is an
extraordinary, grass roots movement devoted first to an ideal (free
software) and second to a practice (making it real).
They have the culture to do it. Again, there were geeks, but not only.
There were men, but plenty of women (and lots of kids). They were
instructing each other -- some about code, some about culture, some
about organizing, some about dealing with the government -- as they
built this infrastructure out. Think Woodstock, without the mud, and
where the audience makes the music.
I'm going to write more about this, elsewhere. But I've not admired
more in as long as I can remember.
One-Stop Returning
One-Stop Returning
12/31/2004 08:21 AMA group of manufacturers is quietly pushing a fully automated
anonymous return system that can print out receipts for rival
retailers. The largest retailers are buying in.
Britons returning from Cuba
Britons returning from Cuba
03/08/2004 11:23 PMHome Secretary David Blunkett confirms five Britons detained in
Guantanamo Bay are returning to the UK.
'Producers' Returning to the Big Screen
(AP)
'Producers' Returning to the Big Screen
(AP)
01/07/2004 03:24 PMAP - "The Producers" is coming back to the big screen.
Regis, 'Millionaire' Returning to ABC
(AP)
Regis, 'Millionaire' Returning to ABC
(AP)
01/26/2004 08:47 PMAP - Two years after the prime-time "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire"
died from overuse, ABC will bring the game — and Regis Philbin
— back next month in a sweeps-month stunt with a $10 million
payoff.
Returning to tech? Sort of...
Returning to tech? Sort of...
06/05/2005 11:55 PMLast September I wrote an entry on this site, From geek
to chef, announcing my transition into the world of cooking. I
wrote, "[m]y interest in the web and tech was always more about
people...But something was always missing, and I've realized that was
true passion for what I was doing..." I spent the last few months of
2005 working in a restaurant, and I loved it. But in January I moved
to New Hampshire and my schedule became more hectic, too hectic to
take another kitchen job.
Working in a kitchen is a full-time commitment, and by full-time I
mean 9+ hours a day, six or seven days a week. And as much as I love
cooking, I still love other things too, including technology. The more
time I spent away, the more I realized that perhaps my lack of "true
passion" was a lot of burn-out. I knew I was suffering from some
burn-out, but wow, I think I was WAY WAY more burned-out than I ever
realized.
In early February I spoke on a women entrepreneurs panel at NYU's
Stern School of Business, and I recalled how much I enjoyed creating
companies. Then I traveled to Munich, where I was invited to speak
about weblogs and met all kinds of smart and wonderful people. And
then I headed to San Diego for the O'Reilly Emerging Technology
Conference, and my interest in all sorts of new and geeky things
was piqued.
Since then I've attended two more technology conferences and many
people have asked me, "What happened to the cooking? Are you back to
doing tech?" and I realized I had been very open and clear about
departing the tech world, and very unclear about whether I was
returning to it.
Since I wrote From geek to chef, it's become clear to me that my
interests are varied not only within the sphere of technology, but
outside it as well. I love to write; I love to cook and work in
kitchens; I love programming and fiddling and inventing; I love
building things, from sauces and meals to applications to teams and
whole companies; I love traveling and speaking and meeting new people;
I love going a hundred miles an hour doing a hundred different things.
So I'm going to refrain from making absolute statements like, "I'm
done with tech!" or "I'm done with cooking!" and instead say only that
I will pursue things that interest me for as long as they continue to
do so.
Right now that means: speak at conferences; cook as much as
possible in my own kitchen; continue to learn as much as I can about
food and its history (e.g. The Food of France by Waverly
Root); learn Ruby and play with Ajax and build more little web apps;
consult and guide people around issues that matter greatly to me, such
as the role of women in technology. Most importantly, I will remind
myself that it's OK to change your mind, and it's OK to change it
again.
Marine Who Vanished Is Returning to N.C.
(AP)
Marine Who Vanished Is Returning to N.C.
(AP)
07/20/2004 11:31 AMAP - The U.S. Marine who was once feared beheaded by Iraqi insurgents
after disappearing from his unit has stepped forward to deny he was
ever a deserter, insisting that "Once a Marine, always a Marine."
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