3 million iPads sold

Apple says it sold 3 million iPads of all kinds in the first three days it sold the new Mini model. Apple started selling the Mini on Friday, starting at $329. It’s a third smaller than the full-size iPad. The sales figure compares with 1.5 million iPads sold in the first three days after Apple launched the third-generation iPad in March.

Coldwell Banker Pacific taps new president

Coldwell Banker Pacific Properties has a new leader overseeing the company’s five residential real estate brokerage sales offices, a commercial real estate operation and about 400 sales agents.

The Honolulu-based company named Mike James as president, replacing Chason Ishii, who held the position since 2007.

James was formerly a senior vice president with Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage in San Francisco, and has been with Coldwell Banker since 1998.

Coldwell Banker Pacific is one of Hawaii’s two biggest residential real estate firms and is owned by NRT LLC, a subsidiary of New Jersey-based Realogy Holdings Corp. and does business under real estate brands ERA and Sotheby’s International Realty.

Hawaiian passenger traffic rises 14.6%

Hawaiian Airlines’ passenger traffic jumped in October as the fast-expanding carrier added more flights.

The state’s largest airline transported 810,201 passengers, up 14.6 percent from 707,203 a year earlier. Available seat miles, or one seat transported one mile, increased 31.9 percent to 1.3 million from 1 million. Hawaiian’s load factor, or the percentage of seats filled, slipped 1.5 percentage points to 83.3 percent from 84.8 percent. Revenue passenger miles, or one paying passenger transported one mile, increased 29.7 percent to 1.1 million from 860,114.

Alaska Airlines begins 3 new isle routes

Alaska Airlines, which flies 20 percent of its routes to Hawaii, is launching three new seasonal routes from the West Coast to the neighbor islands.

The Seattle-based carrier began four-days-a-week service between Portland, Ore., and Kauai on Monday and will continue that route through April 7. It will start four-days-a-week service between Bellingham, Wash., and Maui on Thursday through April 14. Alaska also will offer one flight a week between Anchorage, Alaska, and Kona starting Saturday through April 7. The airline will use 157-seat Boeing 737-800 aircraft for the flights.

Overall, Alaska offers 27 flights a day to Hawaii from Anchorage and seven West Coast cities.

U.S. News lauds Hawaii law firms

Some 107 Hawaii law firms have been named to the U.S. News and Best Lawyers 2013 Best Law Firms list.

The annual listing ranks law firms based on client and peer evaluations as well as significant matters undertaken within the past year. The local law firms, from small to large, handle aspects of law ranging from arbitration to bankruptcy and venture capital to zoning law.

The list can be viewed online at is.gd/US­News­HI­Law­2013.

Kaiser selects new corporate CEO

Kaiser Permanente’s president and chief operating officer, Bernard Tyson, will replace retiring chairman and CEO George Halvorson next year as head of the largest nonprofit health insurer in the U.S., the company said.

Tyson, 52, has worked at Kaiser for 28 years. He previously directed the nonprofit’s hospital systems and led development of Kaiser’s "Thrive" advertising campaign. He’ll take over for Halvorson, 65, who plans to step down in December 2013 after leading the company since 2002.

Kaiser Permanente, based in Oakland, Calif., covered 9 million people last year, mostly in the West, and had $47.9 billion in revenue, according to its website. It runs 37 hospitals in California, Oregon and Hawaii and employs 17,000 physicians. The company’s integrated system, in which one entity delivers care and pays the bills, was a model for the U.S. health care overhaul, which encourages doctors, hospitals and insurers to better coordinate services.

Tyson will join the company’s board of directors next month and assume Halvorson’s position at the end of 2013 after a six-month transition period, the company said.

GM gets new credit lines worth $11 billion

DETROIT » General Motors says it has received $11 billion in credit lines from 35 financial institutions in 14 countries, boosting its available cash and credit to more than $42 billion. The company wouldn’t say specifically what it plans to do with the money, only that it’s a source of "backup liquidity" that may be used for "strategic initiatives."

But analysts said it could be hoarding the cash to buy back stock, specifically from the U.S. government. The U.S. Treasury Department owns 26.5 percent of the company, which it got in exchange for a $49.5 billion bailout about four years ago.

On the Move

Volcano Electric Cigarettes has appointed Scott Rasak to marketing director. His responsibilities include managing the company’s sales and marketing efforts, digital marketing initiatives and public relations. Rasak was previously a marketing manager for Pacific Aviation Museum Pearl Harbor.

SpeediShuttle has appointed Marie Massengale as its new sales and marketing director. She has 20 years of sales and marketing experience in Hawaii.

Kaiser Permanente Hawaii has announced the addition of seven physicians: Dr. David Finger to rheumatology at Mapunapuna Clinic; Dr. Jonathan Kuehne to general surgery at Moanalua Medical Center; Dr. Gregory Lee to orthopedic surgery at Moanalua Medical Center; Dr. Lori Murayama-Sung to psychiatry at Honolulu Clinic; Dr. Tammara Stefanelli to family medicine at Honolulu Clinic; Dr. Harold Barnard to family medicine at Kihei Clinic; Dr. Eri Shimizu to hospital-based medicine at Maui Lani Clinic.