SEATTLE (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp. began on Monday to place advertisements on its U.S. MSN Mobile page, moving into the nascent mobile phone advertising business.

  NEW YORK (Reuters) - Universal Music Group on Monday said it signed an agreement with music-based social networking Web site Imeem Inc to provide free, on-demand streaming of its digital music and videos that will be supported by advertising.

  RIYADH (Reuters) - The number of fatwas, or edicts on belief and behavior, is exploding in Islamic countries as Web sites, television and radio vie to outdo the mosque, but that doesn't mean believers automatically heed their message.

  SEATTLE (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp said on Monday it would be the exclusive provider of display and contextual advertising for the Web site of business television news channel CNBC.

  LONDON (Billboard) - London-based indie label XL Recordings is living up to its name by playing an extra-large role in one of 2007's biggest music industry stories after snagging the physical release of Radiohead's "In Rainbows."

  NEW YORK (Reuters) - LinkedIn, an Internet social network for professionals, will open up its service on Monday to outside software developers, starting with BusinessWeek magazine, to transform itself from an online contacts and referral database into an indispensable daily tool for business users.

  LONDON (Reuters) - News and financial information provider Reuters and the International Herald Tribune said on Monday they would launch a co-branded daily online and print business report for the newspaper from next month.

  NEW YORK (Reuters) - Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia Inc said on Monday it will stop publishing Blueprint magazine as a standalone publication early next year to invest more heavily in its digital and weddings divisions.

  DENVER (Billboard) - The very same week Nine Inch Nails mastermind Trent Reznor launched his remix site independent of his former label, a group of other artists and managers quietly unveiled a like-minded initiative called CASH Music.

  LONDON (Reuters) - Clearspring Technologies Inc, the leading independent provider of "widget" software for syndicating Web site features or content, said on Monday that it was introducing a network for distributing advertising.