The Meredith Corporation (NYSE:MDP) Board of Directors on Saturday increased its regular quarterly dividend 6 percent to $0.4575 per share, or $1.83 on an annual basis. The new quarterly dividend will be payable on March 13, 2015, to shareholders of record on February 27, 2015.

Merger will result in stronger market and financial positions

Neenah Paper, Inc. (NYSE: NP) announced today that its Board of Directors declared a regular quarterly cash dividend of $0.30 per share on the company's common stock. The dividend will be payable on March 3, 2015 to stockholders of record as of close of business on February 13, 2015.

All Covered, a division of Konica Minolta Business Solutions U.S.A. (KMBS) and one of the nation's leading IT services companies, has acquired the assets of Preferred Networks Corporation of Atlanta. The company's clients will now be serviced by the All Covered IT Services division of KMBS, giving All Covered a stronger foothold in the greater Atlanta area. The acquisition became official January 1, 2015.

• Q4 2014 Revenue of $211 Million; $790 Million for the Full Year
• Non-GAAP EPS of $0.52 for Q4 2014; $1.80 for the Full Year, up 14%
• Q4 2014 Operating Cash Flow up 13% to $36M

IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced a new services centre in the City of Leicester, UK that will create up to 300 new IT roles over the next three years for the next generation of workers, enabling IBM to extend its delivery of an industry leading range of technology services to UK based IBM clients.

• Global success thanks to innovations
• Bosch CEO Denner: "Our innovation strategy is paying off, our competitiveness and market position have improved further"
• Sales up more than forecast, by 6.2 percent to 48.9 billion euros
• Sales margin up by nearly one percentage point to 6.1 percent
• Mobility Solutions business sector grows more than twice as fast as the automotive market
• Full acquisitions of ZFLS and BSH strategically complement portfolio

Project Panther Bidco Ltd ("Panther") has, on 30 January 2015, through a press release, announced a public offer to acquire all the shares of Aspiro AB (the "Company" or "Aspiro") for the price of SEK 1.05 for every share in Aspiro (the "Offer"). The Offer values the equity of Aspiro at SEK 464 million, and will be settled in cash. Schibsted ASA has, through its subsidiary Streaming Media AS which Schibsted co-owns with Platekompaniet AS and Verdane Capital VIII, unconditionally and irrevocably undertaken to accept the Offer.

Esker, a worldwide leader in document process automation solutions and pioneer in cloud computing, today announces the acquisition of TermSync™, a Madison, Wisconsin-based company that offers a cloud-based accounts receivable (AR) automation platform.

Fourth quarter diluted EPS from continuing operations increased 16.3 percent to $0.57 per share.

• All-time record quarterly sales of $622.3 million increased 4.3% compared to last year
• All-time record quarterly earnings per share of $1.62 increased 12.5%
• Full-year earnings per share of $5.75 increased 18.1%
• Full-year free cash flow of $240.2 million
• Acquired Bolt Technology Corporation and assets of The Oceanscience Group Ltd.
• Newly authorized stock repurchase program to repurchase up to an additional 2,500,000 shares

Books-A-Million, Inc. (NASDAQ:BAMM) On January 29, 2015, Books-A-Million, Inc. announced the receipt of a non-binding proposal from Clyde B. Anderson, Executive Chairman of the Company, on behalf of the Anderson family, to acquire certain outstanding shares of the common stock of Books-A-Million, Inc., at a cash purchase price of $2.75 per share.