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* 3Com Corp. said Broadcom Corp. agreed to pay more than $22 million to settle an August 2001 lawsuit in which 3Com accused the chip supplier of defaulting on interest payments.

* McKesson Corp. won the dismissal of claims by shareholders that said its board members knew about accounting irregularities at HBO & Co. before they were disclosed. U.S. District Judge Ronald Whyte in San Jose ruled that the shareholders failed to persuasively argue that McKesson’s current and former directors deliberately disregarded accounting problems at HBOC, a health-care software maker that McKesson acquired for $13.9 billion in 1999.

* Konica Corp. agreed to buy Minolta Co. for about $1.6 billion, aiming to cut 4,000 jobs after digital cameras made by Sony Corp. and Canon Inc. eroded its market share.

* Lennar Corp.’s fiscal fourth-quarter profit rose 38% as the largest U.S. homebuilder by stock market value benefited from acquisitions and as low mortgage rates pushed new-home sales to a record in 2002. Net income rose to $225 million, or $3.16 a share. Revenue rose 35% to $2.64 billion.

* Dor BioPharma Inc., a Lake Forest, Ill., maker of vaccines for biological-warfare agents, named retired U.S. Army general and former Secretary of State Alexander Haig its chairman.