MANAGEMENT

Tech firms name new CEOs

Two publicly traded technology companies outside Boston have appointed new chief executives. Haemonetics Corp., a Braintree-based manufacturer of devices that collect and process blood for health care customers, named former McKinsey & Co. senior partner Christopher Simon as its new president and CEO May 9. Simon, an Army veteran, had been leading a strategy review of the company for McKinsey. He succeeds board member Ronald Gelbman, who had been serving as interim CEO since Brian Concannon resigned in September. Skyworks Solutions Inc., a Woburn-based semiconductor manufacturing company, announced Thursday that Liam K. Griffin had been hired as CEO. Griffin joined Skyworks in 2001 and has been promoted several times, most recently in 2014 when he was named company president. Griffin replaces David J. Aldrich, who has led the company since 2000. Aldrich assumes the new role of executive chairman. — CURT WOODWARD

MEDIA

Gannett sweetens its offer for Tribune Publishing

After its first proposal was rejected, Gannett said Monday that it bumped up its offer price for the Tribune Publishing Co., aiming to bring the owner of The Chicago Tribune and The Los Angeles Times to the negotiating table. Gannett, the owner of USA Today, said that it sent a letter to Tribune Publishing with an offer to pay $15 a share, up from $12.25 a share in its offer last month, according to a statement issued by the company. The total value of the new offer is about $864 million, including the assumption of Tribune Publishing’s liabilities. In a statement Monday, Tribune Publishing said its board of directors “will thoroughly review Gannett’s revised proposal.’’ — NEW YORK TIMES

AVIATION

American Airlines to stop in-flight gate announcements

You are now free to enjoy your in-flight entertainment, uninterrupted. The world’s largest airline, American Airlines Group Inc., plans to stop on-board announcements of connecting gate information as flights prepare to land. The change, effective May 17, is a concession that technology has rendered the announcements moot, as passengers now travel equipped with an array of Internet-connected gadgets. American also displays gate information via the seat-back screens on its newer aircraft. — BLOOMBERG

ENERGY

Eversource customers may see lower electric bills this summer

Residential customers of Eversource Energy living in Eastern Massachusetts will likely be seeing lower electric bills this summer. The utility on Monday announced that it has filed for a 24 percent reduction in its basic service supply rate with the state Department of Public Utilities. If approved, the new rate would take effect July 1 and last six months. The supply rate cut would save the typical residential customer using 600-kilowatt hours per month about $10 per billing period. It would be partially offset by an increase in the rate used to fund statewide energy efficiency programs. Customers in the greater Boston service area would see their bills decrease to $120.34 from $129.89. Bills for customers on the South Shore and greater New Bedford would fall to $126.43 from $135.98. — ASSOCIATED PRESS

TECHNOLOGY

Facebook CEO to meet with conservative leaders

Radio host Glenn Beck (right) and American Enterprise Institute president Arthur Brooks are some of the conservative leaders Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg plans to meet with this week. The meeting, scheduled for Wednesday, follows a report that Facebook employed bias in the way it selected stories for its ‘‘Trending Topics’’ feature. A report in the tech blog Gizmodo claimed that Facebook downplays conservative news subjects. Facebook denies that report, which relied upon a single anonymous individual with self-described conservative leanings. — ASSOCIATED PRESS

TECHNOLOGY

Google creates social network app

After struggling for years to build its own social network, Google is trying again, with an app called Spaces. Here’s the basic concept: Spaces wants to give you new ways to set up group chats with your friends. In these chatrooms, you can plan trips, talk about shared interests and, of course, link each other to relevant YouTube videos and Google search results. Because Spaces can be used for practically anything, from building to-do lists to discussing ‘‘Game of Thrones’’ spoilers, it may as well be the Swiss-army knife of apps — a utility for all occasions and projects. — WASHINGTON POST

PAY EQUITY

Highest-paid female exec makes a fraction of leading male CEO’s pay

Oracle Corp.’s co-chief executive Safra Catz was last year’s highest-paid female executive in the United States with $56.9 million in awarded compensation, according to the Bloomberg Pay Index, a ranking of the 200 best-paid bosses. Catz’s pay matches that of her co-CEO Mark Hurd but is a far cry from the highest-paid man — Patrick Soon-Shiong, founder of cancer-research firm NantKwest Inc. — who was awarded $329.7 million in 2015. — BLOOMBERG

SUPREME COURT

Exxon’s appeal won’t be heard in N.H. groundwater case

The Supreme Court said Monday it will not hear Exxon Mobil’s appeal of a $236 million judgment for its use of a gasoline additive that contaminated groundwater in New Hampshire. The court’s order leaves in place a jury verdict involving contamination by the chemical MTBE. Exxon Mobil wanted the judgment thrown out because New Hampshire was not required to prove that individual water supplies were contaminated. The Irving, Texas-based company also said it is not responsible for contamination caused by gasoline spills at junk yards and independent gas stations. New Hampshire sued Exxon Mobil and other oil companies in 2003 for damages to remediate MTBE contamination, saying they knew they were supplying a product that is more difficult to clean up than other contaminants. — ASSOCIATED PRESS

SUPREME COURT

Debt collection letters on state stationery is ruled OK

A unanimous Supreme Court ruled Monday that a pair of Ohio law firms did not use illegal tactics when they sent out debt-collection letters on stationery bearing the name of the state’s attorney general. The justices said the use of official letterhead to collect money owed to state agencies did not violate the federal fair debt collection law. Two women who received collection notices from the private firms sued, saying it was misleading to send notices on stationery that had the name of Attorney General Mike DeWine and his office seal. Ohio officials argued that the firms had permission to use the letterhead and were acting as officers of the state. — ASSOCIATED PRESS