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* Silicon Graphics Inc., which builds computers that create special effects and graphics for movies, said it planned to cut about 200 jobs.

* Viacom Inc.’s Infinity Broadcasting said it would begin streaming 11 of its leading news and news-talk stations over the Web this month in what appeared to be a bid to better compete with satellite and Internet rivals. Infinity’s all-news stations to be streamed include KFWB and KNX of Los Angeles.

* Ask Jeeves Inc., an Internet search company that’s trying to challenge Google Inc. and Yahoo Inc., said Lycos.com would use its search-engine technology.