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The Hershey Company (HSY) announced its quarterly dividend of 42 cents per share, an increase of about 11% over its prior dividend in August of 38 cents. The dividend is payable on December 14, 2012, to stockholders of r...

They won't. Dropbox doesn't own datacenters for its data, since everything is actually stored on Amazon S3. Because of this, Dropbox only pays for the data that is actually stored on the service, and not the space that i...

In a little more than two weeks, November 15 to be exact, the highly-anticipated Maison Martin Margiela for H&M collection will hit the stores

South African economy dented by industrial action

Chinese billionaire William Ding Lei has a few fantasies of his own.

Microsoft, the world’s best-known software company, is set to begin selling a tablet computer on Friday, a move that is ruffling the feathers of its partners.

Some good news at last for the British economy, but we are still only half way to recovery When in a hole, the first priority is to stop digging. The British economy has at last achieved that, and then gone one better by...

Blue chips ended the day higher after seesawing between gains and losses, as investors tried to decipher middling readings on companies and the U.S. economy.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Apple Inc delivered another quarter of lackluster results and iPad sales fell well short of Wall Street targets, pushing its stock down more than 1 percent.

Best Buy, Wynn and Zynga are making big moves in the U.S. session, while Apple and Amazon tickers trend on Twitter.

WPP, the world's largest advertising group, has reduced its full-year outlook for the second time in two months, sending its shares lower.

Carmaker Ford has announced plans to close two UK plants with the loss of 1,400 jobs.

Paid-for digital subscriptions reach almost 600,000 but advertising suffers year-on-year declines The New York Times has reported an 11% increase in paid-for digital subscriptions to almost 600,000 in the three months to...

What’s the latest way to turn a quick buck? Try turning over your old mobile phone to an ecoATM, a machine that scans devices ranging from phones to MP3 players to determine their worth and then pays consumers cas...

In announcing that Commissioner David Stern would step down on Feb. 1, 2014, the NBA also took the unusual step of naming his successor immediately.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc reported weak quarterly results on Thursday as the world's largest Internet retailer spent heavily and suffered from an economic slowdown in Europe.

A roundup of the latest corporate earnings reports and what companies are saying about future quarters.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Industrial machinery maker Gardner Denver Inc is exploring a sale and has drawn initial interest from several major private equity firms, according to people familiar with the matter, in a deal that ...

Stocks held onto gains this morning despite a mixed bag of economic reports, but the markets took a downturn on rumors of a U.S. downgrade by rating agency Fitch.

Lawyers may have a reputation for expensing every last thing, but they’ve got nothing on these politicians and executives.

The company reported quarterly revenue that met Wall Street expectations even as iPad sales were disappointing.

An around the world look at Apple's most noteworthy retail stores.