In the third quarter, ad sales, excluding revenue from Advertising.com, rose 24 percent from the same period a year ago.

Revenue fell 13.2 percent from a year ago, to $3.80 billion, excluding revenue from the QwestDex directories business that Qwest is selling.

Revenue during the year rose to £29.4 billion, up 7.5 percent from a year earlier, excluding revenue from companies Vodafone either acquired or sold off during the year.

Excluding revenue from Scientific-Atlanta, sales should rise 10 percent to 12.5 percent.

Cisco Systems reported after the market closed that its profit excluding one-time items and revenue fell, but not as much as analysts had expected.

Advertising revenue, excluding revenue from businesses that have been sold, fell 14.5 percent in the quarter, to $452.7 million.

Excluding revenue from HotJobs, a jobs-listing site Yahoo bought late last year, its revenue increased 36 percent.

Excluding the estimated impact from currency exchange rate fluctuations and revenue from acquired business, total revenue grew 20 percent for the full year.

Excluding revenue from the Social Security program, the government ran a $34 billion deficit for the year.

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