Google will work with MySpace to provide advertising and search functions for the leading social networking website. In a deal between News Corp. and Google, the leading internet search engine company will provide all text-based and display and search advertising to Fox Interactive Media's sites,...

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Reuters - News Corp.'s Fox Interactive Media and Google Inc. said on Monday they have signed a multi-year search and advertising deal covering Fox's MySpace.com and other properties.

Reuters - Viacom Inc.'s MTV Networks (VIAb.N) has agreed to distribute clips from its cable networks over Google Inc.'s advertising network, in a test of what could become a new economic model for Web-based video delivery, the companies said on Sunday.

AOL has announced plans to fire as many as 5,000 employees within six months. The move is part of a restructuring of its business to draw in more advertising dollars.

Reuters - Closeout retailer Big Lots Inc. on Thursday said quarterly sales at stores open at least a year rose 5.2 percent, helped by an additional advertising circular.

Reuters - U.S. newspaper publishers, including Tribune Co. and McClatchy Co. , posted lower quarterly earnings on Thursday due to circulation declines and the loss of advertising to the Web.

Reuters - Gannett Co. Inc. , the largest U.S. newspaper publisher, on Wednesday reported a drop in its quarterly profit due to a weak advertising environment.

Time Warner Inc. projects its AOL division will lose $1 billion in profits through 2009 if a plan to offer its services for free to some of its customers goes into effect. However, internal company forecasts show that Time Warner is expecting increases in Internet advertising revenue, which is...

Reuters - Nielsen Media Research plans to measure how many people actually watch TV commercials starting in November, a move that could result in a decline in advertising rates, The Wall Street Journal said on Tuesday.

Reuters - The New York Times Co. on Monday forecast second-quarter earnings of 41 cents to 43 cents per share, compared to 42 cents a year ago, citing an improved but still challenging advertising market.

Reuters - Dow Jones & Co. Inc. said on Friday that its advertising revenue at The Wall Street Journal rose 10.1 percent in May, and it expects to meet its second-quarter earnings forecast of low- to mid-30 cents per share.

Held back by weak radio and newspaper advertising, tracking firm TNS Media Intelligence announced on Tuesday that U.S. advertising spending will grow at a slower-than-expected rate this year.

Reuters - Oil prices extended gains over $71 on Friday, buoyed by healthy U.S. economic growth that hinted recent record prices may not hit robust demand.

Reuters - UK publisher Daily Mail & General Trust said on Thursday its adjusted first-half pretax profits rose 7 percent to 108.7 million pounds ($204.5 million) amid a bleak newspaper advertising market.

Reuters - Internet media giant Yahoo Inc. plans to introduce its revamped Web search advertising system in the third quarter, but expects no financial contribution in 2006, executives said on Wednesday.

Reuters - Yahoo Inc. said on Wednesday that its margins have stabilized in recent years at around 40 percent, as the company balances advertising growth against the need to invest to fuel further growth.

Reuters - As U.S. television networks prepare to showcase their fall program lineups next week, the loudest buzz isn't about the next hit sitcom or drama, an actor making a comeback or an executive in trouble.

Reuters - Google Inc., facing mounting competition in the Internet search advertising market from Microsoft Corp. and Yahoo Inc., expects that rivalry to drive up prices and increase its revenue, Chief Executive Eric Schmidt said on Wednesday.

Reuters - Rupert Murdoch-controlled media conglomerate News Corp. (NWSa.N) on Wednesday said quarterly profit doubled, as strong advertising at its television businesses outweighed profit declines for its films and newspapers.