What's Hot On TheStreet

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What's Hot On TheStreet

5 Personalities of Retiring Boomers Here's a recent study with more gravitas than one of those Facebook-clogging character quizzes: summaries by Allianz Life Insurance Co. of North America of baby boomers' five retirement-related "personalities."

Safeguard CEO Sees IPO Candidates Emerge A total of 21 venture-backed companies went public in the first half of this year, up substantially from the doldrums of last year but still nothing to write home about. Peter Boni, CEO of publicly traded venture capital player Safeguard Scientifics(SFE), however, says the IPO tide may soon be turning with the economy.

Microsoft Should Raise Its Dividend As a long holder of Microsoft MSFT, I submitted last week a resolution for Microsoft to significantly increase its quarterly dividend. It's my hope and intent that Microsoft will put this resolution to a free vote of its shareholders at November's shareholder meeting in Seattle. I believe that a vast majority of other Microsoft investors will feel similarly to me on this subject even though I've yet to speak with them.

Apple Still Clueless in TV Land: Today's Outrage After two failed attempts to reinvent the set-top box and a go-nowhere monthly "best of TV" subscription plan, Apple AAPL is now hoping a buck-a-show rental service will be a winner.