Business Digest

Mastervich is new V&M Star president

HOUSTON

Joel Mastervich, chief operating officer of V&M Star, will replace Roger Lindgren as president of the company, which has operations in Houston, Muskogee, Okla., and Youngstown. Lindgren announced last week that he was retiring effective April 1. He will continue to serve the company as a consultant.

Mastervich joined V&M in 2005 and was named chief operating officer in 2006. He earned a bachelor’s degree in metallurgical engineering from the University of Pittsburgh and a master’s degree in business administration from the University of Chicago.

Google is Topeka for just one day

TOPEKA, Kan.

For a month, Topeka was Google. For a day — April Fools’ Day — Google was Topeka.

In a nod to the Kansas capital, which unofficially changed its name to Google, Kan., for a month in a bid to become a test site for the company’s planned super-fast fiber-optic network, the popular search engine changed its name Thursday to Topeka.

Visitors to the company’s home page, www.google.com, were greeted by the name “Topeka” in Google’s familiar multicolor typeface.

Associated Press