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Broadcom Corp. named George Farinsky, a former chief financial officer of Mattel Inc., as its fifth director. The Irvine chip seller is no longer the only Standard & Poor’s 500 Index company with four board members. Broadcom, the world’s largest maker of cable-modem chips had five directors until Myron Eichen died in July at age 72. Farinsky, 67, has also served as CFO of software maker Ashton-Tate Corp. and U.S. operations president of the Bank of British Columbia. Since 1991 he has been a consultant, private investor and corporate director, Broadcom said.

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Interplay Entertainment Corp., an Irvine video game publisher, said it lost $4.9 million, or 11 cents a share, in the fourth quarter, slightly more than its net loss of $4.8 million, or 18 cents a share, for the same period a year ago when there were fewer shares of stock outstanding. Revenue declined 30% to $21.5 million. The company said it released three new titles in the most recent period, half of what it released a year earlier.