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As the world's largest company with a market cap of more than half a billion dollars, Apple Inc. [AAPL] is sitting on a large pile of cash upwards of $100 billion and decided Monday to institute a $2.65 a share quarterly dividend and buy back $10 billion in stock, the tech behemoth announced today.

The New iPad with 4G LTE support is here, but choosing the network between AT&T and Verizon can become a difficult decision.

Air India Ltd. will receive a 40 billion rupee ($800 million) cash infusion from the Indian government under the new federal budget beginning April 1.

CEO Tim Cook decided on a new course for the Cupertino, Calif., company regarding shareholders. We have plenty of cash to run our business, he said.

Major car manufacturers will raise prices across the board in India following a budget announcement by Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Friday, Indian newspaper The Hindu reported.

Apple announced it will repurchase as many as $10 billion worth of shares now. Later this year, it plans to pay an initial dividend of $2.65 a share.

Speculations are rife that Apple will launch the next generation iPhone in the second half of 2012. However, Apple fans have already started crowding the Web with speculations on what features the next iPhone will offer to its users.

Samsung Galaxy tab 2 10.1 is competing with Apple's new iPad. See how the Android devices stack up against Apple's best bet.

Capcom have confirmed that a host of unlockable content has been included with Street Fighter X Tekken retail disc for Xbox 360 and PS3, including 12 previously unknown characters, and that players have to pay an additional fee to unlock and access them.

Apple, whose stock is currently trading at $585, has announced that it will be holding a conference call on Monday morning to discuss the company's plans for its approximately $100 billion in cash reserves.

Apple Inc. -- the world's most valuable publicly traded company by its market capitalization of $545.97 billion -- will conduct a conference call to announce the outcome of discussions concerning its cash balance on Monday at 9 a.m. EDT, which is before the U.S. equity-market open.

Apple Inc. said it would host a conference call on Monday morning to discuss the outcome of discussions about its cash balance as investors clamor for a return from its massive holdings.

Wireless carrier Sprint has called off its spectrum-hosting deal with would-be LTE operator LightSquared, following unresolved issues the latter had with the FCC. The satellite portion of LightSquared’s operations has been nearly wiped out by government regulators, because it interfered with GPS signals. As part of the termination process, Sprint is returning $65 million it received as prepayments, to LightSquared.

According to J.D. Power and Associates, Apple has ranked top among smartphone manufacturers in terms of customer satisfaction, and it achieved this ranking for the seventh consecutive time.

Dave Girouard, Vice President of Product Management (Google Apps), has resigned from his post. He is leaving Google behind to start his own company name UpStart.

A U.S. soldier accused of killing 16 Afghan civilians is being represented by attorney John Henry Browne. Browne has a history of controversial and media-hyped cases, including serial killer Ted Bundy.

Pity Activision Blizzard Inc. (NASDAQ: ATVI) at your own peril. The world's fastest growing video game maker suffers from the sort of unenviable problems most companies pray for. Its 37 percent growth rate over the last three years, with 2011 revenue topping $4.8 billion, earned it No. 185 on IBT 1000, a proprietary list created by the International Business Times of the top 1,000 fastest growing companies in the world.

The Retina Display in the new iPad features 2048×1536 pixels, which is about 3.1 million pixels packed into a 9.7-inch screen. That's roughly 1 million more pixels and than in an HDTV, and frankly, with my HDTV on in the background, I'd rather look at the iPad.

John Demjanjuk, a former Ford autoworker and convicted Nazi, died Saturday in the Bavarian town of Bad Feilnbach at the age of 91. Demjanjuk, who was a guard at the Sobibor Nazi death camp in Poland during World War II, was sentenced to five years in jail in 2011.

The New iPad is here and, with the launch of this iPad, Apple is all set to reaffirm its role as the leading tablet maker. But despite the fact that the latest gadget is beautiful, the question is - was it the device the tablet fans had been waiting for?

MMORPG (Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game) is one most popular gaming sectors in the world at the moment. Here are the top 8 from the best of best MMOs.

It seems that Apple wants the new iPad's users to experience the Retina Display to its core. The company has created a new section in the App Store named great apps for the new iPad, which is fully dedicated to apps that have been developed for the new iPad's Retina Display. Here's a list of top 10 apps that have been given a super high resolution update to correspond with the release.

Capcom, developers of upcoming third-person shooter Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City, will release the post-launch free DLC for the game April 10, it has been reported. The new add-ons, according to sources, are an attempt by Capcom to lure fans to its fold.

The U.S. and European regulators are investigating whether Google violated privacy of users by a special computer code that tricks Apple's Safari Web-browsing software into letting them monitor many users according to a report by Bloomberg.

A source at Goldman Sachs Group Inc. who has been neither charged nor identified in a broad U.S. insider-trading probe was heard via wiretap leaking secrets about Apple Inc. and the Intel Corp., an attorney for former Goldman Sachs board member Rajat Gupta said in court on Friday.

Earlier this week, Cumulus Media sent out an email blast to fellow radio station owners with a photoshopped picture of former U.S. Presidential candidate Mike Huckabee, promoting him as the conservative talk radio host of the future.

The Hermitage Plaza twin tower received planning permission last week, ushering in a new wave of skyscraper building in Paris's La Défense.

Apple's stock market gains have been overshadowed by media exposes revealing labor violations at Apple's Foxconn supply chain in China, but some facts have been deemed as fabrications by This American Life.

Following National Potato Chip Day on Mar. 14 and Pepsi's Banner Sun potato chip brands reaching an impressive $10 billion in global retail sales, the food company was very generous in sending me a very interesting selection of chips.