The Fort Wayne Women’s Bureau has named a new director of its Women’s Enterprise program, the bureau announced Monday. Monica Hughley took over the program Dec. 7.

Women’s Enterprise provides one-on-one counseling and classes to men and women thinking about starting businesses. It also helps them find startup financing.

Most recently, Hughley, 40, directed Syracuse University’s Southside Entrepreneurial Connect Project and Innovation Center.

She has also owned a chemical distributing company and worked as a senior sales representative.

Hughley is a native of Gary and a graduate of Purdue University.

She replaces Shirley Busak as director of Women’s Enterprise. Busak will continue with the program but in a part-time capacity.

Google employees testing mobile device

Google Inc.’s employees are testing a mobile device that runs on the company’s Android operating system, as the search giant continues its push into the wireless market and toward more direct competition with Apple Inc.’s iPhone.

In a weekend blog post, Google said the new device combines hardware built by an unnamed partner with its Android software.

The free software is crucial in Google’s efforts to make its search engine and other services as accessible on cell phones as they already are on personal computers.

Google handed the device out to employees across the globe so they could “experiment with new mobile features and capabilities,” and give quick feedback on the new technology, Mario Queiroz, vice president of product management, said on the company’s blog.

The Wall Street Journal, citing unnamed sources, reported Sunday that Google plans to sell the phone directly to consumers, instead of through a wireless carrier.

Cadbury on defense on Kraft buyout bid

Britain’s Cadbury PLC kicked off a robust defense against Kraft Foods Inc.’s $16.3 billion hostile takeover offer Monday, urging shareholders not to let the U.S. maker of cheese, cookies and macaroni dinners “steal your company with its derisory offer.”

Cadbury also confirmed that it had received rival approaches from The Hershey Co. and Italy’s Ferrero International SA but said they were too preliminary to begin proper talks and warned that it would not accept a subpar offer from any suitor.

‘Reverse-redlining’ case may face curbs

A federal judge suggested Monday that he might restrict the scope of a first-of-its kind “reverse redlining” lawsuit filed by the city of Baltimore against mortgage giant Wells Fargo Bank N.A.

During a hearing Monday on the motion to dismiss, U.S. District Judge J. Frederick Motz described the condition of Baltimore’s impoverished, predominantly black neighborhoods as “shocking, disturbing, despicable.”

But he suggested it was implausible to hold Wells Fargo responsible for “the deterioration of the inner city.”