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Even though Yahoo has been cutting costs and jobs over the past few years and losing some of its hold on the Internet search market to Google and Microsoft, it looks like they're moving forward with a plan to develop a massive campus in Santa Clara.

The following stocks were among those that moved substantially or traded heavily Friday on the New York Stock Exchange and the Nasdaq Stock Market: NYSE: MGM Mirage, down 45 cents to $10.56 The casino operator's joint venture partner Dubai requested a debt payment delay.

Casino operator MGM Mirage said Friday that its CityCenter joint venture with Dubai World, the investment arm of the Dubai government, is not affected by Dubai World's request to delay repaying billions in debt and will still open on time.

Sina Corp., an operator of Chinese language Web sites, said Friday it has completed the sale of 5.6 million shares for $180 million to a Virgin Islands holding company.

Interactive Data Corp. , a Bedford-based provider of financial market data, said yesterday that it is buying certain online financial data operations from Dow Jones & Co.

ANDREW WILLIS T he oddest of couples in Canadian media is coming unstuck, as CanWest Global Communications Corp.

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, the famed film studio that is exploring a potential sale of itself, has sent out nondisclosure agreements to about 20 interested parties including Time Warner Inc and News Corp , sources familiar with the matter said.

Microsoft headquarters in Redmond, WA. SEATTLE a ' Microsoft Corp. says its chief financial officer is departing at the end of the year.

Yahoo hopes deal will close in early 2010. Yahoo Inc. said Tuesday that Australian and Canadian regulators have given a thumbs up to the Internet giant's proposed search pact with Microsoft Corp.

Disney's Latin America executive Carolina Lightcap has been named president of Disney Channels Worldwide.

The last time we heard from the hand-drawn animators at Disney, they offered up the barnyard tale "Home on the Range." The 2004 'toon was so forgettable it seemed as though it really might be the last time we ever heard from the hand-drawn animators at the studio where the art form was pioneered.

Star Tribune gossip columnist C.J. dishes on Joe Mauer, Batting Champ and MVP -- and his options in the Big Apple.

Freedom Communications said Wednesday it has finalized an agreement to sell the East Valley Tribune in the Phoenix suburb of Mesa to a company that owns free papers in Tucson, Ariz., and Telluride, Colo.

Time Warner Cable Inc. is asking the public for help as it tries to curtail increases in the programming fees it has to pay to carry cable channels and broadcast stations on its systems.

Thanksgiving is a time for turkey, black Friday sales and - usually - The Oprah Winfrey Show 's "Favorite Things" episode.

The company, including Time Inc., Conde Nast and Hearst, would offer The New Yorker , Vanity Fair , Time , People , Sports Illustrated and other magazines using an iTunes-like "any way you want" store for content, sources told The New York Observer .

The economy is not growing as fast as the government first thought and the recovery still faces significant obstacles, including households nervous about spending and rising unemployment.

Nov. 24 --- Scott Burns, director of alternative investment research for Morningstar Inc., talks to Bloomberg's Carol Massar and Matt Miller about investing in alternative funds.

Oprah Winfrey is bringing a sexy new pilot to HBO, according to Variety . Oprah's Harpo Films has made a deal with the premium cable network to create an hourlong series about a woman who walks out on her perfect life, marriage and children to fulfill her secret fantasies and desires in L.A. "It is unsentimental and pretty shocking, and there is ...

Warner Music Group Corp., one of the nation's largest record companies, on Tuesday posted a loss in the fourth quarter as severance costs weighed on results despite a strong slate of music releases from artists including Jay-Z and Madonna.