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Real-estate site expands ad deal with newspapers

NEW YORK - Real-estate Web site Zillow.com is expanding its partnership with 282 newspapers to give national advertisers new ways to reach local markets, changes that the news companies hope will allow them to raise their fees for online ads.  Read More

Esquire magazine unveils cover with electronic ink

NEW YORK - Although readers keep shifting to the Internet, Esquire magazine's editor is sure print isn't dying, and he aims to prove it Monday by unveiling a 75th-anniversary issue with a cover that features electronic ink.  Read More

Going, going gone: JetBlue auctions flights on Web

NEW YORK - JetBlue Airways Corp. is auctioning off more than 300 roundtrip flights and six vacation packages this week on eBay, with opening bids set between 5 and 10 cents.  Read More

Old Web idea of micropayments finally finds a home

NEW YORK - Seventeen-year-old Alexis Corocan spends about $5 a month on clothes, accessories and eyes of various shapes and shades for her online persona on IMVU, a popular Internet hangout.  Read More

Advertising group opposes Yahoo-Google pact

The Association of National Advertisers said on its Web site that the letter to Thomas Barnett, assistant attorney general in charge of the Justice Department's antitrust division, came after a "comprehensive, independent analysis" and meetings with Google and Yahoo executives.  Read More
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Google reigns as world's most powerful 10-year-old

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - When Larry Page and Sergey Brin founded Google Inc. on Sept. 7, 1998, they had little more than their ingenuity, four computers and an investor's $100,000 bet on their belief that an Internet search engine could change the world.  Read More

Microsoft deploying in-store customer-service reps

NEW YORK _ As part of its new $300 million marketing campaign and image makeover, Microsoft Corp. plans to deploy its own customer-service representatives at retailers like Best Buy and Circuit City to help people with their PC purchases.  Read More

Tech firms fare better than most in jobs slump

NEW YORK - Technology appears to be one of the least hard-hit sectors in an economy beset by unemployment at a five-year high.  Read More

Nokia warns 3Q market share will fall; shares dive

HELSINKI, Finland - Shares in Nokia Corp. tumbled Friday after the leading cell phone maker said its third-quarter global market share will decline from second-quarter levels because of aggressive price cuts by its rivals.  Read More

Russia's MTS to sell Apple iPhone

MTS, which becomes the last of the country's "big three" providers to announce a distribution agreement for the handsets, did not provide immediate details of the deal.  Read More