Cisco Systems Inc.

U.S. technology giants seem to be heeding Wall Street pressure to funnel some of their cash hoards to shareholders. Computer networking titan Cisco Systems said Tuesday it expects to start paying a dividend for the first time. Investors liked the......

Microsoft Corp. on Tuesday boosted the dividend payment on its stock 23%, the first increase in two years, hoping to show its “commitment� to sharing its huge cash flow with stockholders. The software giant said its board raised the quarterly......

Apple Inc. has become the second-most-valuable U.S. company in terms of stock market value, a spectacular accomplishment for the Silicon Valley icon. But it still hasn't been invited to join one of corporate America's most exclusive clubs: the Dow Jones.....

It’ll be a good weekend for Intel Corp. shareholders as the world’s largest chipmaker boosted its dividend 15%. The Santa Clara technology giant said Friday that its quarterly cash payout would jump to 18 cents a share starting in 2011.......

Forget the Tea Bag movement, Comcast Corp. -- the nation's biggest cable and broadband provider -- wants to get everyone behind the Bee-Tag movement. In a speech at the Brookings Institution, a Washington think tank, Comcast Executive Vice President...

Here's the official list of attendees of Thursday evening's meeting of technology industry chiefs with President Obama in San Francisco. It includes many of Silicon Valley's biggest names. John Doerr, partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers Carol Bartz,...

Most of the hype around President Barack Obama's dinner with a dozen of California's tech-industry leaders was around the appearance of Apple CEO Steve Jobs as he struggles with health issues. But the dinner, which took place last Thursday, wasn't about...

It was an impressive list of names who attended a dinner Thursday night with President Obama. The Wall Street Journal had a picture of everyone, including Apple’s Steve Jobs who is on medical leave, raising their glasses.  “The president...

A top Treasury official said that a temporary tax holiday to allow U.S. corporations to bring back billions of dollars in overseas profits should only be part a broader overhaul of the tax code, pouring cold water on a top......

Cisco Systems is flipping the off-switch on the Flip Video camcorder. On Tuesday the computer networking giant said it was shutting down its Flip Video unit as a step toward narrowing its business -- a reversal after years of looking to diversify its...

Here's your talkin'-about-Shaft Tuesday roundup of consumer news from around the Web: --Cisco Systems is pulling the plug on its Flip camcorders. The computer networking giant says it's shutting down the division as part of ongoing efforts to streamline...

Google Inc.’s miss on first-quarter earnings was exactly what the struggling tech-stock sector didn’t need. Shares of the Internet search titan plunged to a six-month low of $547 in after-hours trading Thursday, down 5.4% from $578.51 at the...