BUSINESS BRIEFS
Telecom chiefs to gather here
Advertiser Staff
Telecommunications leaders from more than 60 countries will gather here next week for the Pacific Telecommunications Council's annual meeting.
Topics for discussion include disaster management and recovery, mobile television, voice over Internet protocol and voice peering.
The conference is Sunday through Wednesday at the Hilton Hawaiian Village. See www.ptc07.org.
QUEEN'S HEALTH NAMES EXECUTIVE
Mark Yamakawa has been named executive vice president and chief operating officer of The Queen's Health Systems.
Yamakawa, a 21-year veteran of the organization that runs The Queen's Medical Center, will oversee the company's real-estate portfolio and property management.
Yamakawa was hired at Queen's in 1985 as an engineer.
US AIRWAYS UPS ITS BID FOR DELTA
US Airways Group Inc. yesterday raised its hostile takeover bid for bankrupt Delta Air Lines Inc. by 28 percent to $10.2 billion and set a Feb. 1 deadline to spur action by the carrier's creditors.
Atlanta-based Delta said it would review the bid while noting US Airways didn't address objections to the original Nov. 15 proposal.
US Airways CEO Doug Parker said the bid, which would create the world's largest airline, leaves no doubt that unsecured creditors would get more from his plan than from an independent Delta.
JAILED TYCO CHIEF IN HOSPITAL
NEW YORK — L. Dennis Kozlowski, the imprisoned former head of Tyco International, has been hospitalized with what appeared to be a heart problem. State prisons spokesman Linda Foglia said yesterday that Kozlowski, 60, is at "an outside hospital," but added that federal health law prohibited further comment.
