{"id":46122,"date":"2013-09-17T16:04:58","date_gmt":"2013-09-17T14:04:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=46122"},"modified":"2013-09-17T16:06:38","modified_gmt":"2013-09-17T14:06:38","slug":"microsoft-ups-dividend-buys-back-40-billion-in-stock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/software\/46122\/microsoft-ups-dividend-buys-back-40-billion-in-stock\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft ups dividend, buys back $40 billion in stock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft says its board has approved a 22 percent increase in the company&#8217;s quarterly dividend to 28 cents along with a new $40 billion stock buyback program.<\/p>\n<p>The new dividend represents an increase of 5 cents over Microsoft&#8217;s previous dividend. It will be paid on Dec. 12 to shareholders of record as of Nov. 21.<\/p>\n<p>The new stock buyback program has no expiration date and replaces the company&#8217;s previous $40 billion stock buyback program that was set to expire on Sept. 30.<\/p>\n<p>Shares of Redmond, Washington-based Microsoft Corp. are up about 2 percent in premarket trading to $33.36 per share.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Microsoft<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Microsoft CEO set to retire\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/software\/44702\/microsoft-ceo-announces-retirement\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Microsoft CEO set to retire<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Microsoft gave user data to Prism: report\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/41838\/microsoft-gave-user-data-to-prism-report\/\"><strong>Microsoft gave user data to Prism: report<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Microsoft confirms Windows security flaw\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/software\/41619\/microsoft-confirms-windows-security-flaw\/\"><strong>Microsoft confirms Windows security flaw<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Ballmer tightens grip as Microsoft restructures\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/software\/41839\/ballmer-tightens-grip-as-microsoft-restructures\/\"><strong>Ballmer tightens grip as Microsoft restructures<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft says its board has approved a 22 percent increase in the company&#8217;s quarterly dividend to 28 cents along with a new $40 billion stock buyback program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":20606,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[25,169],"class_list":["post-46122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-active","tag-microsoft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46122"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46123,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46122\/revisions\/46123"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}