MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - Google Inc. plans to start selling advertising space in 50 top newspapers, expanding the Internet search engine's efforts to provide services off the Web and making it easier for companies advertising online to also show off their products in print.

SAN FRANCISCO - Seeking to keep the peace in its popular online hangout, Facebook Inc. has overhauled a new advertising system that sparked privacy complaints by turning its users into marketing tools for other companies.

The owner of the East Valley Tribune has formed an alliance with Monster to extend the reach of its online advertising from coast to coast.

ALBANY, N.Y. - Unwanted software slithered into Patti McMann's home computer over the Internet and unleashed an annoying barrage of pop-up ads that sometimes flashed on her screen faster than she could close them.

ALBANY, N.Y. - Unwanted software slithered into Patti McMann’s home computer over the Internet and unleashed an annoying barrage of pop-up ads that sometimes flashed on her screen faster than she could close them.

September 22, 2004

In an era when reality television dominates the ratings and anyone can become a blog superstar, the line between celebrity and average Joe is nearly indistinguishable.

NEW YORK - Uma Thurman responded to French cosmetics giant Lancome's lawsuit against her with one of her own Friday, taking their contract dispute over the use of her name and face in an advertising campaign to federal court.

Eric Malloff is a man on the way up in the world. He spent last summer in Paris. He summered here this year. OK, most people wouldn’t consider that a trade up. But his summer here has been well-spent, working on his senior project, which also is a business.

A Mesa company is set to drive into the golf ball business.

WASHINGTON - Google Inc. has scrapped its Internet advertising partnership with struggling rival Yahoo Inc., abandoning attempts to overcome the objections of antitrust regulators and customers who believed the alliance would give Google too much power over online commerce.

Textbook prices are soaring into the hundreds of dollars, but in some courses this fall, students won’t pay a dime. The catch: Their textbooks will have ads for companies including FedEx Kinko’s and Pura Vida coffee. Selling ad space keeps newspapers, magazines, Web sites and television either cheap or free.

ST. LOUIS - The rivalry between Anheuser-Busch Cos. and Miller Brewing Co. is heating up during the key beer-selling season, Memorial Day to Labor Day.

Once a top performer for General Motors Corp., sales of Oldsmobiles reached more than a million cars annually in the mid 1980s.

CINCINNATI Dan Haren gave the Diamondbacks exactly what they believed he would on the mound in his starting debut Wednesday, even while pitching with the onset of flulike symptoms that weakened him a bit.

LOS ANGELES - Hollywood writers and actors are calling for a code of conduct to govern a growing trend of hidden advertising in TV shows and films, and they say they will appeal to federal regulators if studios don't respond.

LOS ANGELES - Hollywood writers and actors are calling for a code of conduct to govern a growing trend of hidden advertising in TV shows and films, and they say they will appeal to federal regulators if studios don't respond.

Best friends Dylan Abbott and Justin Cullen Jr. work at Sonic, will share a dorm room at Arizona State University in the fall, and make their television advertising debut together.

Best friends Dylan Abbott and Justin Cullen Jr. work at Sonic, will share a dorm room at Arizona State University in the fall, and make their television advertising debut together.

SAN JOSE, Calif. - After getting a taste of the radio business in college, software designer Craig Patchett never lost his interest in broadcasting. But without a job in radio, it seemed likely to remain one of those unfulfilled passions — until something called ‘‘podcasting’’ came along.