Business briefs
YouTube
Google’s YouTube announced a deal with Disney to offer rentals of the studio’s movies, letting US and Canadian users watch such films as “Cars 2” and “Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides.”
Busted PMI
Mortgage insurer PMI Group filed for bankruptcy protection.
Forstmann
Julian Robertson will take over as chairman of Forstmann Little, the private-equity firm co-founded by Ted Forstmann, who died Nov. 20.
Apple TV
Apple is shifting production of its iPhone and iPad displays to Sharp from Samsung and may introduce a TV with Sharp screens in 2012, a Jefferies research report said.
LightSquared
Sen. Charles Grassley accused the FCC of hiding information about its handling of Philip Falcone’s LightSquared wireless venture.
Jury trial
A judge ruled that the trustee seeking money for Bernie Madoff’s victims has a right to a jury trial for his $386 million lawsuit against the Mets’ owners.

