Tag Archives: Stocks

Apple announces dividend and share repurchase program for 2012, expects to spend $45 billion over three years

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Surprise, surprise — Apple just let the cat out of its own bag. In right around a half-hour, the company will officially unwrap plans to initiate a dividend and share repurchase program commencing later this year. ‘Course, analysts have been clamorin…


Universal ticker hack takes a look back at a time before NASDAQ (video)

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Know what takes the sting out of your crashing stock portfolio? Arduino fun, silly geeks. Alright, so in this case it’s an FTDI Basic board, but the spirit of this hack remains the same. A Swarthmore student by the name of Ames Bielenberg picked up wh…


Adafruit’s Internet of Things Printer combines your love of information, receipts

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Love staying connected and using excess paper? Adafruit’s got your back with its latest project. The Internet of Things (IoT) printer goes online via an Ethernet jack, printing up data on 2.5 inch wide receipt paper. You can print things like Twitter …


Belfry brings Stocks and Weather, other native iPhone apps to jailbroken iPads

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Rounding out the honeymoon period with that freshly jailbroken iPad 2? Well now we have some new apps for you to play with, and you may already be acquainted. iOS hacker Ryan Petrich’s most recent project, dubbed Belfry, lets you install stock iPhone …