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Ask.com Puts Mobile At The Heart Of Its Turnaround Strategy

Ask.com’s latest turnaround strategy, in the wake of layoffs and reports of selloffs by parent IAC (NSDQ: IACI), has seen the site return to…

by Ingrid Lunden Dec 15, 2010 - 10:43 AM PST

IAC’s search site Ask.com has tried numerous incarnations to capture some of the traffic and advertising gold possessed by Google (NSDQ: GOO…

by David Kaplan Jul 27, 2010 - 1:01 AM PST

Another profitable quarter for IAC (NSDQ: IACI) (that’s two in a row) aided by $35 million in gains from the sale OpenTable shares and Match…

by Staci D. Kramer Oct 27, 2009 - 8:33 AM PST

Jim Safka is stepping down as CEO of Ask.com, the WSJ reports, and we have confirmed. Safka took the reins last January, replacing Jim Lanzo…

by Tameka Kee May 12, 2009 - 7:19 PM PST

Poor Ask.com. Nobody seems to have noticed that the IAC-owned search engine already had several of the features that its bigger competitors…

by Joseph Tartakoff Apr 3, 2009 - 3:21 PM PST

Google (NSDQ: GOOG) users are young, “trendy” members of the “digerati”, and Ask.com should never have tried to lure them away, its European…

by Robert Andrews Jan 27, 2009 - 10:00 PM PST

Yet another update from search engine Ask.com just a year and a half after its last overhaul. It’s going live today in the US with its “next…

by Staci D. Kramer Oct 6, 2008 - 10:56 AM PST

A busy 24 hours at IAC (NSDQ: IACI) … we wrote earlier about the pending soft launch of Tina Brown’s The Daily Beast and now yet another u…

by Staci D. Kramer Oct 6, 2008 - 2:01 AM PST

As IAC (NSDQ: IACI) attempts to buildup Ask.com, it’s made a point of de-emphasizing syndicated search in favor of higher-yield organic sear…

by Joseph Weisenthal Jul 10, 2008 - 3:37 PM PST

Losing its independence on Independence Day, Lexico is now part of the Ask.com family, as IAC’s (NSDQ: IACI) portal completes its purported…

by Robert Andrews Jul 4, 2008 - 11:56 AM PST

Turns out Ask.com has the answers for Lexico Publishing, the owner of Dictionary.com which earlier agreed to be acquired by Answers.com (NSD…

by Staci D. Kramer May 15, 2008 - 1:01 AM PST

Strange are the motivations of Ask: First it clearly states that it will now focus on its core audience of married women, and now it says th…

by Rafat Ali Mar 6, 2008 - 8:43 PM PST

IAC-owned search engine Ask.com is planning to lay off 40 workers or 8 percent of its total workforce, CEO Jim Safka tells Reuters. That’s b…

by Joseph Weisenthal Mar 4, 2008 - 4:58 PM PST

A source has confirmed to us a coming shakeup at IAC-owned Ask.com that includes about 100 layoffs in the April time frame. SAI reported thi…

by Joseph Weisenthal Feb 29, 2008 - 5:17 PM PST

Another effort from IAC (NSDQ: IACI) search company Ask.com to stand out from the crowd … the launch Tuesday of “AskEraser,” a new privacy…

by Staci D. Kramer Dec 11, 2007 - 3:51 AM PST