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August 27, 2012 03:25 pm GMT
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$1.1B Microsoft Patent Deal Done, AOL Buys Back $600M In Stock, Offers Dividend Of $5.15 Per Share [CEO Memo]
Here's a timely story on how other companies not called Apple are also profiting from tech patents. Today AOL announced a share repurchase of $600 million in AOL stock, along with a one-time cash dividend of $5.15 per share, as the final steps in returning all of the proceeds from its $1.1 billion sale of patents to Microsoft.The news was announced to the market, as well as to AOL staffers by Tim Armstrong in an internal memo. [TechCrunch is owned by AOL.]Original Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/fV05WL4Z05o/
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