Broadcom Corp.

Broadcom earnings: Broadcom reported a better-than-expected fourth quarter Tuesday, beating Wall Street estimates for quarterly revenue and earnings per share despite enduring profit and sales declines from the same period a year earlier....

Broadcom Corp. announced Monday that it agreed to purchase NetLogic Microsystems Inc. for about $3.7 billion. Irvine-based Broadcom designs and supplies semiconductors to telecommunications and consumer electronics companies with its chips ending up in a...

They called it "A Celebration of Children." Court Appointed Special Advocates of Orange County (CASA) held their 26th anniversary gala at the Hyatt Regency Huntington Beach Hotel & Spa. Country music artist Jimmy Wayne, who grew up in the foster care...

The probation sentence handed down to former KB Home chief Bruce Karatz on Wednesday was the latest in a string of disappointments in the Justice Department’s crackdown on stock options backdating. The criminal investigations began in 2005, following...

A federal appeals court Thursday reinstated a class-action lawsuit filed by Broadcom Corp. investors against Ernst & Young, saying the auditors should have known about an option-backdating scheme at the Irvine tech company. A lower-court judge had...

Irvine-based chip-maker Broadcom Corp. on Tuesday reported a profitable quarter, with record sales of $1.95 billion, a 45% increase over the same quarter last year. The company also announced a 12.5% increase in per-share dividend, to 36 cents per share.....

Newport Beach's wealthiest resident dropped five notches in the annual ranking of America's richest individuals, according to the 2010 Forbes Rich List. In a ranking of 400, real estate investor Donald Bren came in at 21, with a calculated net worth...

The U.S. Attorney's office has dropped its appeal against Newport Beach billionaire Henry Samueli, who had a criminal case against him and other Broadcom executives dismissed by a federal judge last year. Samueli, co-founder of Broadcom and co-owner of...

In the course of a year I cover and share news on the work of hundreds of nonprofits in the community. I offer no criticism of any, even those that are blatantly social and somewhat superficial in terms of the connection between those that have the...