Technology

Jerome York, Apple Director and Chrysler, IBM Finance Chief, Dies at 71 Jerome York, a director of Apple Inc., former chief financial officer at Chrysler Corp. and International Business Machines Corp., and adviser to investor Kirk Kerkorian, died in Pontiac, Michigan. He was 71.

Malone's Liberty, Elliott Said to Drop Out of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Bidding John Malone’s Liberty Media Corp. and hedge fund Elliott Management Corp. have decided not to bid for the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc. movie studio, according to people with knowledge of the bidding.

Google Said to Be Working on TV Software Plan With Intel, Sony, Logitech Google Inc. is working to bring Web software to televisions through a partnership with Intel Corp., Sony Corp. and Logitech International SA, according to two people involved in the discussions with the companies.

Palm's Lone Bulls Bank on Acquisition After Most Analysts Abandon Stock Tero Kuittinen, an analyst at MKM Partners, is swimming against the tide on Palm Inc.

Alcatel-Lucent Risks $2 Billion Loss in Royalties at DVD, TV Patent Trial Alcatel-Lucent, the world’s largest provider of land-line phone networks, may lose rights to as much as $2 billion in patent royalties in a trial over whether it’s wrongly keeping TV and DVD technology to itself.

Siemens to Cut 4,200 Further Jobs at Computer-Services Unit Before Spinoff Siemens AG plans to cut an additional 4,200 jobs at its SIS computer-services division as Europe’s largest engineering company scales back units and prepares to create a separate entity from the business.

Silicon Valley Flocks to Texas Show on `Nerd Birds' to Promote Startups For some Silicon Valley startups, the best place to promote their technology isn’t the Consumer Electronics Show or the CeBit computer expo, it’s a Texas conference that got its start as a music festival.

Prisa Said to Seek Approval From Lenders to Delay Partial Payment on Loan Promotora de Informaciones SA, the Spanish company looking to shrink its 4.86 billion-euro ($6.6 billion) debt, is seeking a delay in the payment on a loan, according to two people familiar with the matter.

Public Mobile Opens 25 Stores in Canada, Offers Unlimited Calls, Messaging Public Mobile Holdings Inc., the Canadian wireless carrier backed by investors including Columbia Capital, is opening 25 stores today and is offering customers unlimited phone calls and text-messaging.

VimpelCom Fourth-Quarter Net Income Was $283 Million, Missing Estimates OAO VimpelCom, Russia’s second- largest mobile-phone company, reported fourth-quarter profit that missed analyst estimates.

China Mobile Quarterly Profit Rises 3.3% as Mobile-Phone Use Increases China Mobile Ltd., the world’s biggest phone company by market value, posted a 3.3 percent increase in fourth-quarter profit as an economic rebound boosted phone usage, offsetting a slowdown in customer growth.