Business notebook
Indexed: Cambridge-based Akamai Technologies Inc., whose software speeds the delivery of Internet data, will replace Biomet Inc. in the Standard & Poor's 500 index.
Merged: Bridgeline Software Inc. of Woburn said it has merged with Objectware Inc. to expand Bridgeline's presence in the Atlanta market.
Flat: Unica Corp., a Waltham maker of marketing software, said it expects to report flat third-quarter earnings based on preliminary financial results, due to lower than expected license revenue.
Sweetened: Apollo Management LP, the buyout firm run by Leon Black, sweetened its takeover bid for Huntsman Corp. by 2.8 percent to $6.54 billion to preempt a potential counteroffer by Len Blavatnik's Access Industries Holdings LLC.
No subprime mortgage: A Beverly Hills, Calif., estate where William Randolph Hearst and Marion Davies once lived was put on the market for $165 million, in what may be the most expensive US residential property listing.
Offer: Gilead Sciences Inc. will offer patients free access to an experimental cystic fibrosis treatment starting Aug. 1 as it prepares to seek US regulatory approval for aztreonam lysine.
Cupholder: Coca-Cola Co. will take over exclusive soft drink and water rights at 10 car racing tracks served by rival Pepsi by 2012 under a multimillion dollar 10-year deal with International Speedway Corp.
Plug it in: Ford Motor Co. and Southern California Edison will team up to test rechargeable hybrid vehicles and hasten mass production of the new technology.
Bumped up? US airlines may be forced to more than triple payments to $624 for passengers involuntarily bumped from flights as the carriers fly fuller planes. The boost, which would be the first since 1978, is among five options under study, by the US Transportation Department.
(Globe wire services) 