A group of seven newspaper chains representing 176 daily papers throughout the country has announced a broad partnership with Yahoo to share content, advertising and technology, another sign that wary newspaper business is rapidly increasing and willing to shake hands with the technology companies they once saw as a threat.

In the first phase of the deal, the newspaper companies would start posting their employment classified ads on Yahoo's classified jobs site, HotJobs, and start using HotJobs technology to run their own online business ads.

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