

Immersion will receive 12 quarterly payments of $1.875 million. Touch-and-go: Immersion Corp., a maker of hardware and software that simulates tactile feeling to enhance on-screen events, settled a patent lawsuit with Sony Computer Entertainment, and will "explore" the use of Immersion technology in PlayStations. will bring international TV channels to Joost, the still-in-development Internet TV platform from the creators of Skype and Kazaa.

Going international: A deal set be revealed today with global video carrier JumpTV Inc. is in advanced talks to buy Movielink LLC as a way to speed its entry into the online movie-downloading business, according to people familiar with the situation.

to delay filing its annual report with the Securities and Exchange Commission until March 16.įilm deal: Blockbuster Inc. said its board authorized the repurchase of $300 million of common shares in the next year.Īfter review: Boston Communications Group Inc., a Bedford provider of customer-support services to wireless phone companies, said it expects to record an additional $10 million to $13 million in compensation expenses after a review of stock option grant processes.ĭriving expenses: Accounting problems have forced General Motors Corp. Democrats and consumer advocates voiced concern that the nominee would be beholden to business interests.īuyback: Cambridge lab instrument maker Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. He's facing scrutiny: Michael Baroody, executive vice president of the National Association of Manufacturers, is President Bush's pick to be chairman of the Consumer Product Safety Commission. chairman Andrew Logie retired and was replaced by Robert Buck, the president and chief executive. named interim chief executive Herb Zarkin to the post on a permanent basis, returning the 68-year-old to the job he held at BJ's former parent company in the mid-1990s.
