Business Digest

Eastman Kodak Co., seeking to sell or license a portfolio of more than 1,100 patents, sued Apple Inc. and HTC Corp. in an expansion of a legal strategy that may help boost the value of its inventions to fund a turnaround.

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. is considering reducing the size of a loan for a potential Yahoo! Inc. acquisition to around $3 billion from the original target of $4 billion in order to use its cash instead, a person familiar with the matter said.

Hutchison Telecommunications Hong Kong Holdings Ltd. said Apple Inc.’s Siri technology has helped boost data usage among subscribers, even before the rollout of a Chinese-language version of the voice-recognition software.