Best Buy boosts dividend and stock buyback. best buy boosts dividend and stock buyback. Electronics retail giant Best Buy will increase its quarterly dividend and more than triple its recently announced stock buyback offer. Richfield (MN) – Electronics retail giant Best Buy will increase its quarterly dividend and more than triple its recently announced stock buyback offer. The dividend will be raised to 13 cents per share which is up from 10 cents....

The Bermuda Stock Exchange fell prey to a Y2K computer glitch, causing the electronic exchange's daily trade report to list dividend payout dates for two issues as 1900.Representatives said the glitch should be corrected by Monday. The Bermuda Stock Exchange fell prey to a Y2K computer glitch, causing the electronic exchange's daily trade report to list dividend payout dates for two issues as 1900....

Microsoft, which has amassed an unparalleled cash hoard of nearly $60 billion from its world-dominating software business, announced yesterday that it would return a large chunk of it to shareholders, much of it through a one-time dividend of $3 for every share held by investors. Microsoft, which has amassed an unparalleled cash hoard of nearly $60 billion from its world-dominating software business, announced yesterday that it would return a large chunk of it to shareholders, much of it through a one-time dividend of $3 for every share held by investors....

Intel also paid record cash dividends of $1 billion, announced two doublings of the company’s cash dividend and used a $7.5 billion to repurchase 300.5 million shares of common stock....

Redmond, Washington-based Microsoft did not name a successor to Connors, 45, who in the past few years guided Microsoft to its first-ever dividend, ended employee stock options and orchestrated the biggest-ever cash payout by a U.S. company....

Verizon offered $23.50 a share in cash and stock, including a 40-cent dividend that MCI has paid to shareholders, MCI said in a statement today....

Mr. Parsons indicated that amid pressure from Carl C. Icahn, the financier and Time Warner shareholder, he was "looking real hard" at moves like buying back more stock and increasing the dividend....

Alaska pays every resident a nominal annual dividend check from all the oil revenue that it earns....

President Bush’s committed focus on wireless as a catalyst for technology growth is paying dividends." Those dividends come in the form of commercial opportunities made possible by the spectrum changeover, even as large chunks of the current VHF TV spectrum are reclaimed by the public sector....