The Dow Chemical Company (NYSE:DOW) stated second-quarter earnings that beat analysts’ estimates as the plastics business posted record profit on lower costs for oil and natural gas. “Performance plastics experienced the highest margin growth” amid lower feedstock costs and good price management, Hassan Ahmed, a New York-based analyst at Alembic […]

Cisco Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:CSCO) declared that it aims to purchase OpenDNS, a privately held security firm based in San Francisco, which provides advanced threat protection for some device, anywhere, anytime. According to terms of the contract, Cisco will pay $635M in cash and supposed equity awards, plus retention based incentives […]

Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE:VZ) declared that successful completion of its tender offer to buy all outstanding shares of AOL Inc for $50 per share in cash. The tender proposal expired on June 22, 2015. Verizon subsequently completed the purchases of the remaining entitled AOL shares not purchased in the tender offer […]