• Executive change Internet media company Yahoo! said it had appointed Gregory Coleman executive vice-president of its North American operations. Mr Coleman, 46, will start in late April.

• Barrier raised Vodafone's German mobile phone unit, Mannesmann D2, is against sharing 3G infrastructure with rivals and will cut handset subsidies, D2 chief Jürgen von Kuczkowski was reported as saying yesterday. Mr von Kuczkowski said that the firm was spending DM300 (£97) in subsidies per handset for new customers.

• Upbeat Market research firm Gartner Dataquest expects global sales of mobile phones to reach 507m this year, 50m above most handset makers' forecasts. "This is our reasoned view," said Telecom analyst Peter Richardson, "It's certainly not our best case scenario." He said a reasonably bullish view was warranted because the only soft market was the US.

• Refocus Engineering company TT Group said it was pursuing a demerger of its glass container packaging unit to focus on electronic and electrical operations. It expected to complete the demerger before mid-year.