NYSE

Wall Street's pessimistic outlook on corporate profits was proved wrong by surprisingly strong first-quarter results. However, will the second-quarter earnings season tell a different story?

BlackBerry developer Research in Motion made payments of $12 million to its founding co-CEOs after they quit earlier this year, the company told the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

A month after the disastrous initial public offering of Facebook (Nasdaq: FB), the No. 1 social networking site, investment bankers speculate social network site Yammer could be on the block.

US Airways has been very publicly circling AMR Corp., the bankrupt parent of American Airlines. Yet industry experts expressed concerns that, while a potential merger would be a boon to the labor unions, the flying public would end up footing the bill.

The top after-market NYSE gainers Thursday were: YPF SA, Old Republic International, Tenet Healthcare, JinkoSolar Holding and Valspar Corp. The top after-market NYSE losers were: SandRidge Mississippian, AAR Corp, Regis Corp, WMS Industries and Standard Pacific Corp.

Four years after the 2008 financial crisis began gathering steam, the government has collected another piece of the remaining billions in bailout money that it's owed.

Fear of an impending fiscal cliff and uncertainty about November's presidential elections has led to a 0.8 percent projected dampening of marketing spending in 2012, according to a Thursday report from Pivotal Research Group.

AOL (NYSE: AOL), the No. 7 website, said management had re-elected all its candidates to the board of directors, defeating three challengers nominated by Starboard Value Management, a hedge fund that owns 5.3 percent of the company.

Dutch navigation software specialist TomTom (Pink: TMOAF) got a major boost this week as Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL), the world's most valuable technology company, said it would collaborate with it on new software for the iPhone 4S family.

The top after-market NYSE gainers Wednesday were: Spartech Corp, Haverty Furniture, SuperValu, Orbitz Worldwide and Unifi. The top after-market NYSE losers were: Korn/Ferry International, Winnebago Industries, Select Income REIT, Radian Group and Yelp.

U.S. investors are getting back into real estate, but their efforts are being complicated by the uncertain housing market.

Openet, one of Ireland?s flourishing software developers, said it raised an additional $21 million from investors in Japan, Europe and the U.S., bringing the cumulative total raised in 13 years to $55 million.

After 28 years, Dell (Nasdaq: DELL), the No. 3 computer company, plans to pay shareholders a small dividend, 8 cents a quarter. Later this year, Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL), the world's most valuable technology company, will resume paying dividends after 17 years.

JPMorgan Chase & Co (NYSE:JPM) Chairman Jamie Dimon floated unscathed through a hearing of the Senate Banking Committee meant to examine what happened inside his banking behemoth earlier in the year, when a massive bet on the credit-default swaps derivatives market reportedly meant to 'hedge' other bank risks went sour, resulting in multibillionaire losses.

Dell (Nasdaq: DELL), the No. 3 computer maker, announced its first quarterly dividend of 8 cents a share as a way to reduce some of its $17.2 billion cash pile.

Those e-mails weren?t accidents, nor were the accompanying solicitations for funds and support, a new report by ProPublica found. The process is growing and there?s little place to hide.

The top after-market NYSE gainers Tuesday were: Higher One Holdings, Alpha Natural Resources, Curtiss-Wright, Health Management and J.C. Penney Company. The top after-market NYSE losers were: Scotts Miracle, 3D Systems, Endeavor International, Celadon Group and Fifth & Pacific Companies.

Sales of the Chevrolet Volt Hybrid-Electric Vehicle (HEV) have experienced a resurgence in California following tweaks that now allow the car from General Motors Company (NYSE: GM) to qualify for High Occupancy Vehicle (HOV) lane access.

That massive pile of cash corporate America has been sitting on for years is shrinking, and the reason it's declining bodes well for the nation's economy.

One of the fastest growing segments of Kevin Hartz's business is bacon. Hartz isn't a chef or farmer. Rather, he's founder and CEO of Eventbrite, a ticketing website that offers an independent platform for event organizers of all types.

Now that Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL), the world's most valuable technology company, has opened its Worldwide Developers Conference with the usual product splash, what happened to Apple TV?