While television and newspaper ad demand has weakened amid the global economic deterioration, Internet ad demand has remained brisk, Yahoo said.
For the first nine months of the 2008 business year, group operating profit rose 8.8 percent to 99.1 billion yen and pretax profit 10.4 percent to 97.9 billion yen, it said.
For the full business year ending in March, Yahoo said it plans to increase dividend payment from 104 yen per share in the previous year to 127 to 130 yen.
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