Tina Brown reportedly out at Daily Beast, leaving the site’s future unclear
IAC won’t renew Daily Beast cofounder and editor-in-chief Tina Brown’s contract this January, according to reports from Buzzfeed and Politico. That means…
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IAC’s Crowded Room location app asks where you might go
Crowded Room, the first location-based app from IAC, is introducing the idea of the ‘Might Go,’ a casual pre-check-in action that suggests where people might be interested in going that night, something that can create connections to friends and strangers based on shared places and interests.
IAC’s Diller: Daily Beast/Newsweek Losses Are More Than Tolerable
IAC’s media businesses — The Daily Beast/Newsweek, digital entertainment studio Electus and video site College Humor — don’t often get a l…
IAC Revenue Up 23 Percent; Beast Losses Continue
IAC (NSDQ: IACI) Q2 net income more than tripled from a year ago to $42.4 million, as healthy growth across the board – and especially from…
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CityGrid Tries To Spur Developers To Feature Local Businesses In Apps
The promise of mobile advertising is resting more and more on local targeting efforts, but the practice is not necessarily as easy as it sou…
IAC’s CityGrid Buys Remaining Stake In Social Media Analyzer BuzzLabs
IAC’s local advertising network CityGrid Media has acquired the remaining stake in social media analyzer BuzzLabs as it looks to provide add…
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IAC’s Diller: Don’t Expect A Match Spinoff; Google Deal Extended
With personals’ unit Match having grown revenues 25 percent in Q4, would this be a good time for IAC (NSDQ: IACI) to spin it off? At least o…
IAC Profits, Revenues Surge; Cites Reduced Losses At Daily Beast
IAC (NSDQ: IACI) turned in another solid quarter as revenues from search, dating site Match and local home improvement site ServiceMagic all…
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IAC Re-Ups Its Search Deal With Google
IAC (NSDQ: IACI), which already had a long-standing agreement with Google (NSDQ: GOOG) under which the dominant search engine powered the se…
IAC’s Mindspark Buys VoxPop’s Gaming Platform
Mindspark Interactive Network, the IAC (NSDQ: IACI) unit that houses various online contest and gaming properties, has acquired the gaming p…
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IAC’s Blatt Explains The OkCupid Purchase
Leading his first earnings call since being named IAC’s CEO, a very fast talking Greg Blatt said the company’s $50 million purchase of ad-su…
Video: New IAC CEO Blatt On His Company’s Not-So-New Strategy
Greg Blatt turned to CNBC (NYSE: GE) today to make what appears to have been his first public appearance since taking over as IAC’s CEO last…
The Morning Lowdown 11.29.10
» As Comcast’s Steve Burke prepares to run the show at NBC Universal (NYSE: GE) after the merger is finalized, changing the way a…
Outside.in Partners With CityGrid On Targeted Local Ads
Hyperlocal news aggregator Outside.in has been testing targeted ads from IAC’s CityGrid ad network. CityGrid, parent of the Citysearch local…
IAC Cuts 130 Jobs At Ask.com As Part Of Strategy Shift
IAC-owned Ask.com search engine, which since July has been trying to reinvent itself as a Q&A site, is cutting 130 jobs and closing down its…
IAC Says It Wants To Launch A Print ‘Companion’ To The Daily Beast
IAC’s talks to merge The Daily Beast with Newsweek didn’t go anywhere, but IAC (NSDQ: IACI) CEO Barry Diller said during the company’s earni…
IAC Posts A Better-Than-Expected Jump In Sales
IAC (NSDQ: IACI) once again posted a better-than-expected jump in quarterly revenue, as the company benefited from double-digit sales growth…
The Morning Lowdown 10.11.10
» Two weeks after New York magazine called him the “Demon Blogger of Fleet Street,” Nick Denton gets another profile that emphasi…
The Death Of The RSS Reader
A weekly look at a story that is defining the news.
IAC (NSDQ: IACI) notoriously let Bloglines deteriorate since buying it five years ago;…
IAC To Shut Down Bloglines
IAC (NSDQ: IACI) is shutting down Bloglines, the RSS reader it purchased five years ago. IAC bought Bloglines when the site as its peak; at…
A Change In Approach? Microsoft Chooses Not To Buy Search Share
Is Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) changing its approach to online spending? The company, which had said as recently as a year ago that it was willin…
Search And Dating Dollars Help Boost IAC Revs
Maybe IAC (NSDQ: IACI) isn’t so crazy to think that its Ask.com search business can compete in a Google (NSDQ: GOOG) world. Higher search ad…
DumbDumb Launches With Orbit Branded Campaign
DumbDumb, Will Arnett and Jason Bateman’s new branded content production house, launched its first online video campaign in conjunction with IAC’s Electus yesterday, a series of videos for Orbit gum. With the launch, Bateman says DumbDumb is looking to go head-to-head with other content on YouTube.
Bartz Makes The Media Rounds: YHOO’s Soul Doesn’t Reside In Just One Person
Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) CEO Carol Bartz, never one to shy away from a microphone, was seemingly everywhere today: from her morning press conferen…
Yahoo Outsources Personals To IAC’s Match.com
Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) is outsourcing yet another one of its businesses to a former rival. The company says IAC’s Match.com will now be the “exc…
IAC’s Mindspark Buys Majority Stake In Fitness Site DailyBurn
IAC’s Mindspark Interactive division has bought a majority stake in diet tracking site DailyBurn. The site, which bills itself as the “faste…
Match.com’s Dating Stat War Goes Beyond PlentyOfFish
Match.com has sent letters to several rival dating sites demanding that they stop circulating what the company considers to be false statist…
IAC’s Sales Up 16 Percent As Ask.com Rebounds
IAC (NSDQ: IACI) said a better performance at its Ask.com search unit helped drive a larger-than-expected jump in revenue during its most re…
IAC’s Match.com Challenges PlentyOfFish’s Dating Stats
The online dating wars are getting ugly. IAC’s Match.com is demanding that newer rival PlentyOfFish — which is now the top dating site glob…
More Online Dating Action: Daily Mail Sells Dating Sites To EasyDate
More consolidation in the online dating industry, this time in the U.K.: EasyDate has bought up Allegran — which operates four of the top 1…
IAC’s Citysearch Invests In Ad Marketer OrangeSoda; Expands Local Ad Net CityGrid
IAC-owned local guide network Citysearch is expanding its local listings ad service CityGrid through a partnership with search marketer Oran…
The Online Dating Recession
Match.com’s Thursday announcement that it had purchased Singlesnet was notable for its upfrontness; the company acknowledged that Singlesnet…
IAC’s Match.com Buys Dating Site Singlesnet
IAC’s Match.com is making another acquisition — this time buying up Singlesnet, which as of January was the 11th largest dating site in the…
Ben Silverman’s Electus Hires Starcom Entertainment Vet Caraccioli-Davis
Branded advertising veteran Laura Caraccioli-Davis is leaving her long-held perch at Publicis Group’s Starcom Entertainment to join the Ben…
IAC Writes Down Search Business; Takes $1 Billion Loss For Q4
IAC (NSDQ: IACI) bit an accounting bullet in Q4, taking a $991 million impairment charge for its search & media business — including Ask an…
SEC Watch: Diller Still Tweaking IAC
IAC (NSDQ: IACI) — the gift that keeps on giving. Barry Diller’s latest fine-tuning involves renaming a couple of reporting segments and re…
IAC Hires Slide’s Goli To Lead Dictionary.com
IAC (NSDQ: IACI) has appointed Slide media business GM Shravan Goli to head up its Dictionary.com online reference business, which also incl…
Daily Beast Taps Former CNET, Dennis Publishing Exec Colvin As President
The Daily Beast has named publishing vet Stephen Colvin as the site
Diller: No Blockbuster Acquisitions In The Cards But If You Want To Buy Ask …
Updated: Don’t think big thoughts when you look at that $1.8 billion-plus in IAC’s bank account: Barry Diller is sticking to his guns when i…
IAC’s Pronto Targets Home, Fashion With New Comparison Shopping Sites
Building on the success of its three-year-old Pronto.com comparison shopping property, IAC (NSDQ: IACI) is launching two new sites under the…
Ask.com’s Latest Ploy: Coupons
IAC-owned Ask.com is now serving up coupons, along with search results. A new service called Ask Deals aggregates coupons and deals from acr…
The Daily Beast To Print Books — Fast
The Daily Beast, Tina Brown’s 11-month old web magazine, is going into the books business. A new Daily Beast – Perseus Books joint venture,…
Industry Moves: Safka Steps Down As Chegg CEO
Jim Safka, the former Ask.com CEO, has stepped down as CEO of heavily-funded online textbook rental service Chegg after less than four month…
Communacopia Highlights: Bewkes On TV Everywhere, Diller On Bewkes, And More
The Goldman Sachs Communacopia XVIII Conference has wrapped up day two of the three-day CEO-fest. Here’s a sampling of notable comments from…
Former Ask.com CEO Lanzone Launches Video Search Engine
Next on for former Ask.com CEO Jim Lanzone: Clicker, a startup that promises to be a TV guide of sorts for video content online. Lanzone, wh…
Daily Beast Has 'No Plans' For UK Launch
There’s an art to running a story despite the denial. Independent.co.uk’s Feral Beast writes of Tina Brown’s 10-month old web magazine: “The…
Mobile Visitors To UrbanSpoon Are More Lucrative Than Online Users
UrbanSpoon, the restaurant recommendation service that got a lot of attention after being featured on an iPhone commercial and was bought by…
IAC’s Match Agrees To Buy People Media For $80 Million
Broad-based online dating site Match.com is buying into the targeted subscription dating business with the acquisition of People Media from…
Ask.com Credits Nascar For Uptick In Search Share
In January, Ask.com gained some market share, ending six straight months of falling share, according to comScore (NSDQ: SCOR). Who gets the…
Interview: Part II: Barry Diller: ‘The Business Model For Content Is To Be Paid For It’
The backdrop behind the front desk in the lobby of IAC’s Chelsea headquarters shows glittering lights on a world map, each one signaling a v…
Interview: Part 1: Diller: ‘If You Have Too Many Epiphanies, You’re On Some Kind of Drug’
Drippy Manhattan evenings aren’t usually a draw for an outdoor cocktail party but the FoundersClub NYC Internet Week soiree had something th…
Industry Moves: Online Textbook Rental Firm Hires Former Ask.com CEO Safka
Jim Safka, who quit as CEO of Ask.com in mid-May, is taking over as CEO of heavily funded online textbook rental firm Chegg. Safka said in a…
Why IAC Covets Yahoo Personals
So what if IAC (NSDQ: IACI) decided to go after *Yahoo* Personals, as Barry Diller (pictured, right) suggested it might Wednesday? A combina…
IAC’s Diller: Not Done Shedding Emerging Businesses; Search, Display Not Improving In Q2
How bad was the ad market for IAC? CEO Barry Diller and CFO Tom McInerney (pictured, right) said display advertising was down 37 percent in…
Earnings Preview: What To Key On When Time Warner, Viacom And Others Report This Week
The Butler’s Back: Ask.com Brings Jeeves Out Of Retirement In UK
InterActive Corp’s decision to kill Ask Jeeves’ iconic butler, a year after buying the search site in 2005, must rank as one of the weirdest…
Analyst: Expect More Internet Acquisitions This Year and Next
Given the state of the economy and capital markets, one might think internet dealmakers would lay low for a little while, but not everyone i…
IAC Just Isn't That Into Match.com Europe; Sells To French Rival; New CEO
Turns out IAC (NSDQ: IACI) isn’t ready for commitment. The New York-based Ask.com operator is selling its dating site Match.com’s European b…
IAC Just Isn't That Into Match.com Europe; Sells To French Rival, New CEO
Turns out IAC (NSDQ: IACI) isn’t ready for commitment. The New York-based Ask.com operator is selling its dating site Match.com’s European b…
Google Challengers Target Niche Users To Gain Market Share
*Google* may be the undisputed king of search — but that doesn’t keep the average user from trying *Yahoo*, *Microsoft* or even Ask on a da…
Earnings: IAC’s Still Hopes On Ask.com; $37 Million in Impairment and Write-Down Charges
*IAC*, still trying to figure out what to be after the five-way split last year, has announced its Q408 results this morning, and the pictur…
IAC Sells ReserveAmerica To Active Network In Stock Swap
Barry Diller is making good on his promise to start selling parts of IAC’s “emerging business” segment, as community sports site operator Th…
Huffington Post Buys Other Half of 23/6
The Huffington Post has acquired IAC’s stake in 236.com, the comedy blog and video site it had co-launched with IAC in November…
IAC’s ServiceMagic Invests In Zip Express Installation, Adding Electronics To Local Offerings
IAC’s ServiceMagic.com disclosed today a strategic investment in Minneapolis-based Zip Express Installation, a company that specializes in q…
IAC: Which Emerging Businesses Will It Sell or Close?
In the Q3 earnings call, Barry Diller dropped multiple hints about closing down or selling some of what IAC (NSDQ: IACI) calls its “emerging…
Earnings: IAC After The Split: Revs Up But Spin-Off Expenses Push Profits Down
You can almost hear the relief from the Gehry-designed HQ as IAC (NSDQ: IACI) reports what chairman and CEO Barry Diller calls “the last qua…
Tina Brown’s Daily Beast Starts With A Growl, Not A Roar
By now, anyone who’s been paying attention knows that Tina Brown’s online project with Barry Diller’s backing is called The Daily Beast afte…
Interview: IAC CFO Tom McInerney: Split Rationale ‘More True Today’; The Hunt For Deals Continues
A wrenching legal battle, a sharp downturn in the economy and nearly a year of planning later, Barry Diller’s experiment in building an inte…
IAC Spinoff Set For Next Week; Five Companies As Of Aug. 21
IAC (NSDQ: IACI) finally has set the date for its long-awaited split into five separate companies to take place: Aug. 21. Before that, the “…
Tina Brown Goes For Evelyn Waugh Set With New IAC Site ‘The Daily Beast’
If you have to look it up, you’re probably mystified about the name of Tina Brown’s newest venture: The Daily Beast. That would seem to be a…
IAC Call: Search Ads Hold Up, While Display ‘Spotty’; Looking At All Deals, But Will Be Selective
For its last call as a single company, all five CEOs and their CFOs are on IAC’s conference call. Kicking off the call, Diller noted that it…
Earnings: IAC Income Slips, But Beats Estimates; Growth Moderate At ‘New IAC’
As it gets set to break into five parts, IAC (NSDQ: IACI) has announced Q2 revenue of $1.59 billion, a 7 percent increase from a year ago. A…
IAC’s Life123 Comes To Life; Goals Include Saving You Time, Ranking Well In Search
If you must think of every new thing as the “something-killer” then you’d probably call Life123 an About.com-killer, or a Mahalo killer, or…
Updated: IAC: After The Spins, What Will It Do With The Cash?
New IAC (NSDQ: IACI) stands to get about $1.5 billion in cash once the big breakup plan is complete. It’ll be a bit less, since LendingTree…
IAC Spins: Transferring $1.5 Billion Back To Parent; Ticker Symbols, Distribution Method
IAC already said it planned for its spincos to take on debt, the proceeds of which would be transferred back to New IAC (NSDQ: IACI). In a n…
$300 Million Goodwill Writedown At IAC’s Cornerstone Unit
This might bolster the claim that IAC (NSDQ: IACI) needs to break up to improve management focus… in a filing the company says its Corners…
Separate, Yet Together: IAC Creates Ad Network With Its Split Businesses
After all the trouble of breaking apart IAC (NSDQ: IACI) into five separate, publicly-traded entities, the ties between the companies will r…
Mobile Ad-Serving Network Ringleader Digital Signs Up Match.com, Evite, CitySearch
New York-based Ringleader Digital, which serves up ads for mobile devices, said it landed a contract with IAC (NSDQ: IACI) Ad Solutions, whi…
FiLife Has A Half-Life, At Least; WSJ-IAC JV Site Launches
FiLife, the personal finance site which is a joint venture between IAC (NSDQ: IACI) and now-News-Corp-owned WSJ, has been in birthing stages…
IAC: No Executive Bonuses In 2007; Sets Reverse Split
No top IAC (NSDQ: IACI) executives got bonuses in 2007, according to a preliminary proxy statement filed this evening. The reasoning is pret…
IAC Sells Consumer Promotions Unit Entertainment Publications Inc. To PE Firm; $135 Million Benefit
Written from the lobby of IAC (NSDQ: IACI) headquarters… IAC has announced the sale of Entertainment Publications Inc., a distributor of c…
FiLife: DJ-IAC JV Coming In Weeks; Over A Year In The Works
Well look at that: FiLife, the personal finance JV from IAC (NSDQ: IACI) and Dow Jones (NYSE: NWS), says it’s almost ready to launch. In a b…
Industry Moves: IAC Hires GM For Tina Brown Project
The Tina Brown-led news aggregation site that is being hatched under IAC (NSDQ: IACI) has a new GM: Caroline Marks, the former GM of Comcast…
IAC Acquires GirlSense.com Parent StarNet; Targeting Tweens
On path to break into five pieces, IAC (NSDQ: IACI) has announced the acquisition of StarNet Interactive, the parent company of the GirlSens…
IAC Spins: ‘New IAC’ Gets The Looks, The Smarts And The Cash; Spins Get Debt
As many have expected, New IAC (NSDQ: IACI) will have a healthy balance sheet, with plenty of cash, while it looks like the spins will be sh…
Earnings: IAC Q1 Revs Up 8 Percent; ‘New IAC’ Revs Up 22 Percent; Income Down 13 Percent
In its first report since a Delaware court win affirming chairman and CEO Barry Diller’s authority, IAC (NSDQ: IACI) announced Q1 revenue of…
IAC Set To Jump Into Crowded How-To Space With Life333.com
You could almost see this one coming: IAC (NSDQ: IACI) is prepping a fresh entrant into the crowded “how-to” space, as part of its strategy…
IAC Search Site Rushmore Drive Launches; More Organic Sites To Come; FiLife Still Alive
RushmoreDrive, the black-oriented search, news and jobs site incubated inside IAC (NSDQ: IACI), makes its debut to the world tomorrow. Tonig…
IAC’s Gaming Site InstantAction Site To Spend $50M-$100M
That’s a biggish number for IAC (NSDQ: IACI), currently in the throes of a split, and major layoffs from the Ask.com side of the business.…
IAC And Liberty Agree On Board Rules Ahead Of Date In Court
Barry Diller has accused Liberty’s John Malone of creating chaos at IAC (NSDQ: IACI) by preventing the board from going about its business,…
IAC-Liberty Fight Could be Resolved By Rejuvenated HSN: Report
The spat between Liberty Media (NSDQ: LINTA) and IACI is expected to go to court in early March, but in the meantime, the two sides may stil…
Diller: Split Plans On Schedule; No Interest In Pre-Split Sales; MSFT-YHOO Good For Ask
With IAC (NSDQ: IACI) locked in a battle with Liberty to complete its intended break up, CEO Barry Diller used the company’s quarterly call…
Earnings: IACI Q4 Revs Up 8 Percent; ‘New’ IAC Revs Would Be Up 21 Percent; Big Loss On Lending Tree
IAC (NSDQ: IACI) managed to get its earnings out after all… the internet conglomerate, locked in a court battle with Liberty Media (NSDQ:…
IAC Adds Management To Black Community Deja-Site; Launch Coming
IAC (NSDQ: IACI), which announced its Black community-focused division last year in April, is close to launching its first site under the “B…
Google Adopts Universal Search For South Korean Market
Google (NSDQ: GOOG) has announced it will overhaul its Korean-language search engine in efforts to broaden its appeal in South Korea, accord…
IAC Looking For Buyers/Investor For Spinoff Units: Report
IAC (NSDQ: IACI), which is in the process of splitting up into five companies, may bring in outside investors or possible buyers for all fou…
IAC Close To Buying Movie Recommendation Site Flixster: Report
The Flixster deal talks have been going on for a while, and IAC (NSDQ: IACI) has been in and out of discussions with the movie recommendatio…
JDate Parent Spark Networks Looking For A Wealthy Mate: Report
Spark Networks, the AMEX-traded parent company of Jewish dating site JDate.com, is shopping itself to potential suitors, reports NYT. Intere…
IACI: Not Gaining Market Share; Susceptible To US Slowdown: Analyst
Investors applauded IACI announcement in November that it would split into five companies, but since then the stock has taken a beating, fin…
Broadband Content Bits: IAC/Brightcove; High-res Video; MySpace-Hulu; NYT-PurpleStates.tv
IAC-Brightcove: What? You thought they already had a deal given that IAC (NSDQ: IACI) has been a minority shareholder since 2006 and Barry D…
Local Net Marketer MerchantCircle Raises $10 Million Second Round; IAC Invests
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Earnings: IAC Q3 Revenues up 7.4 Percent; Media & Advertising Grows 40 Percent
IAC reported Q3 revenue of $1.51 billion, up 7.4 percent from last year’s $1.41 billion. Net income slipped 4.2 percent to $71.8 million fro…
Gift Recommendation Site Gifts.com Acquires GiveFun.com
Gift recommendation site Gifts.com, owned by IACI (NSDQ: IACI), has acquired GiveFun.com, a provider of online gift certificates. The servic…
IAC’s M&A Targets: Time To Rethink Portfolio?
Sramana Mitra has done a five part detailed review of Interactive Corp. (NSDQ: IACI)and it portfolio of companies, and the potential gaps in…
Goldman Sachs Communacopia: Barry Diller, CEO, IAC/InterActiveCorp
Interactive Corp. (NSDQ: IACI) CEO Barry Diller was put on the defensive right from the start of his interview at the Goldman Sachs Communac…
IAC Takes Majority Stake in Game Developer GarageGames; Launching Gaming Site InstantAction
Interactive Corp. (NSDQ: IACI) is getting serious about games: it has taken a majority stake in game developer GarageGames.com, and will lau…
IAC and DJ's New Personal Finance Site: FiLife
So we have found out through a tip: Interactive Corp (Nsdq: IACI) and Dow Jones (NYSE: DJ), who have been working on a personal finance site…
IAC: Zwinky Delivers; Reveille Investment Unwound
A couple of additional notes from IAC’s earnings earlier this week:
Zwinky.com: A lot about virtual worlds in various earning calls this qu…
Updated: Earnings: IAC Q2 Profits Rise; Revs Up; Ask.com Ad Campaign Not Working?
Updated below: InterActive Corp. (Nasdaq: IACI), the parent of sites such as Ask.com and CitySearch, posted Q2 earnings growth of 78.4 perce…
Editor’s Note: IAC Press Release Was Faked
Our post earlier in the day about an IAC stock buyback was based on a faked press release sent by email. We have been in touch with the comp…
’60 Minutes’ Does Diller
Barry Diller’s “third act” — as his own boss — gets the 60 Minute treatment, well, 14 minutes. If you’ve read or seen more than a couple o…
Ask.com Relaunches As Ask3D With More Widgetized Look & Feel and Personalization
Ask.com has relaunched itself as Ask3D, in what is among the more significant UI enhancements in the search field among the top four sites (…
IAC’s New Venture Arm: Primal Ventures; Focus On Mobile & Video
We reported on IAC’s new venture arm in April…now some more details in MercuryNews on the unit headed by former Match.com CEO Jim Safka. T…
Ask.com To Spend Close To $100 Million in Advertising This year
Ask.com, still trying hard (they’ve launched an unscrutable billboard campaign in LA, and other cities), will spend about $100 million in to…
@ New Yorker 2012: Web 2012: Barry, Arianna, Craig & Ken
I traded locations — and, in some respects, centuries … early Monday afternoon, moving from the dark, formal Marriott Marquis to the brig…
Earnings: IAC Posts Higher 1Q Net Income, Revenues
InterActive Corp. (Nasdaq: IACI) reported a 31.6 percent rise in 1Q net income thanks to growth from its Ticketmaster and internet businesse…
IAC Forms New Venture Unit; Safka Moves From Match.com To Head
IAC is forming a new venture unit based in San Francisco that will be headed by Jim Safka as CEO. The new unit doesn’t have a name or an ann…
IAC Plans “Online Destination” For “Black Community”; Promotes SVP-HR To Head Project
IAC added to its programming plans today with the announcement that it would launch an “online destination for the Black community featuring…
Ask.com UK Ad Campaign, Aimed At Google, Sparks Backlash
A British ad campaign has people accusing Ask.com of being a corporate wolf in radical activist’s clothing, the WSJ reports. The online, TV,…
And That’s The Way It Isn’t: The Onion Launches Video Site; Invests $1 Million In It
The Onion News Network, a parody of 24-hour news sites like CNN and Fox News from the same people behind the satirical weekly print product,…
HuffPo’s Ad Deal With IAC Over After About Eight Months; Building Own Team
HuffingtonPost.com’s deal with Interactive Corp, where IAC was selling all the ad inventory on HuffPo, is over after only about eight months…
Horan: IAC’s Local Sites To Be Tightly Integrated
Expect IAC sites like Citysearch, Ask.com, Evite and others to begin working more closely together, says Peter Horan, who joined the company…
Ticketmaster Does Another Music Investment: Echomusic; Buys Majority
Ticketmaster, part of IAC, has made another major investment in an online music firm: it has bought a majority in Echomusic, an online fan c…
DJ-IAC Form JV For Community-Based Personal Finance Site To Be Headed By Dave Kansas
An interesting end-of-week CEO-level announcement from Dow Jones and IAC … They’re teaming up in a 50-50 joint venture to create a “commun…
CitySearch To Acquire Local Search/Review Site InsiderPages
CitySearch, part of IAC, has bought out local search and reviews site InsiderPages, for an undisclosed amount. The Redwood City, CA-based si…
@ Media Summit: Barry Diller’s Keynote: Future of YouTube: I have No Clue
In the very full auditorium in the McGraw-Hill Building (when will they move this conference to a bigger hotel…spend some money, will…
Earnings: InterActiveCorp Q4 Profits Off 85 Percent
Interactive Corp announced its Q4 earnings today, and hefty charges pushed down profit by 85 percent, but revenue climbed in each of its div…
Diller’s Original Content Bug Starting To Itch Again: CollegeHumor; 23/6; And Comedy News Ventures
Barry Diller, who has held back on original content development since his involvement in his e-commerce empire IAC, is getting the itch agai…
Industry Moves: Peter Horan Leaving AllBusiness.com To Head IAC's Media And Advertising Group
Peter Horan has been tapped as CEO, IAC Media and Advertising, overseeing Ask.com, Citysearch, consumer applications and portals, and the ad…
Citigroup EMT Conference: News Corp Digital Revenues; IAC Content; Blockbuster Online
As if CES and Macworld together was not crazy enough, Citigroup thought it was best to do its annual Entertainment, Media and Telecommunicat…
Ticketmaster Invests $13.3 Million in Music Community Site iLike.com
Ticketmaster, owned by Barry Diller’s IAC, is making a big play in the music community-commerce space, through a $13.3 million investment in…
NTL Trying To Recruit IAC Content Head As CEO, Prior To ITV Bid
The drama at NTL, the UK cable operator, continues: it has approached Michael Jackson, the former Channel 4 CEO and now the head of Barry Di…
Microsoft Withdraws From Effort To Make AT&T-Bell South Merger Net Neutral
Microsoft, one of the founders of the It’s Our Net coalition, pulled its name from the group’s site after deciding not to weigh-in on AT&T’…
Earnings: IAC/i Posts 3Q Gain; Media & Advertising Revenue Soars; Will Spend Heavily On Content
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IAC/InteractiveCorp posted better-than-expected third quarter profit today and announced a buyback of as many as 60 million…
Diller’s Plans For Web Integration; UK Travel Acquisition On Cards; News Aggregation Site
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Barry Diller is on somewhat of a PR offensive for the last week or so, with stories cropping up in various media circles abou…
@ Forbes MEET: Hollywood’s Click & Clack Brothers: Eisner Interviews Diller
It’s only a 30-minute-drive from the yellow Loews in Santa Monica to the oh-so-pink Beverly Hills Hotel but it feels like light years. Some…
Ask.com Extends Search To Mobile Devices; Emphasis On Ad-Free Easy Nav Mobile Search Service
An interesting story by our mobile search expert Peggy Ann Saltz at sister site MocoNews.net about Ask.com’s new free mobile search service.…
Ask Is More Sophisticated But Is That Enough?
How many times can the same search site be transformed? To borrow a punchline, until they get it right. (No, this isn’t about Lycos.) Such i…
Diller’s Very Short List
We missed this one earlier this month but came to our attention again today through an e-mail from the company: Barry Diller’s InterActiveCo…
Communacopia XV: Les Moonves, CBS
More highlights from Day 1 of Goldman Sachs’ media conference:
CBS: Reuters: CEO Les Moonves: “We can get paid for our content in a hundred…
Communacopia XV: Diller: Ask.com Aims For 10 Percent Share
Speaking at Goldman Sachs’ Communacopia XV conference today, Barry Diller, CEO of IAC/InterActiveCorp said that Ask.com share of the search…
Diller Retools IAC to Compete With Web Ad Players
A decent story about Diller’s plans on moving IAC from just being e-commerce plays to online advertising driven businesses, including Ask.co…
Industry Moves: IAC Appoints Jason Rapp As M&A SVP
Jason Rapp, who was the VP-online development and associate GM at New York Times Digital till recently, has joined Barry Diller’s InterActiv…
Earnings: IAC’s Q2 Plunges; Ask.com Gains, But Not Focused on Profitability
IAC reported its Q2 earnings numbers today, and its net income fell 90 percent to $53.8 million, from $618.1 million in the year-ago period.…
Industry Moves: Mark Fletcher Leaves Bloglines, Ask
Time for serial entrepreneur Mark Fletcher to move on from Bloglines. He stuck around for more than a year after the February 2005 sale to A…
IAC/I’s Ask, Bloglines Team Up On Blog/Feed Search
Finally, a visible sign of Ask’s post-acquisition impact on Bloglines — a much-needed high-end search engine for Bloglines and the addition…
Huffin’, Puffin’ And Stuffin’; And Diller
The headlines doesn’t really mean anything…it is just a play on Huffington Post, which gets a David Carr-treatment in NYT today. The site,…
Earnings: IAC Profits Down 32 Percent; Marketing, Other Costs Erase Search Gains
Revenue rose more than 35 percent for IAC/I during 1Q06 but net income dropped by 32 percent. That’s reflected in the earnings per share dec…
@ NAB: Searching For The Video Grail
A very large room in the Las Vegas Convention Center is stuffed with people listening to Jeremy Allaire first, give what is, in essence, a l…
Jim Lanzone is Ask.com’s New CEO, After Berkowitz Goes To MSN
Ask.com/IAC move quickly, after the weekend news that CEO Steve Berkowitz has left to join MSN. It has appointed the always-genial Jim Lazon…
MSN Hires Away Ask CEO To Head Online
This is a huge win for MSN: Steve Berkowitz is joining Microsoft as the VP in charge of MSN, the Microsoft division that includes the MSN In…
IAC’s Content Honcho: Comedy Ventures Forthcoming
This is an interesting story and gives an insight into Diller’s IAC’s plans for developing or acquiring original content. This is an intervi…
Audio Interview: Jim Lanzone, GM, Ask.com
Earlier this month at the PC Forum, I had a chat with Jim Lazone, senior VP and GM of Ask.com (fka AskJeeves), in light of the search site’s…
Jeeves Retires; Ask Away (sub. req.)
: Venerable Jeeves has been pensioned off without celebration, leaving behind a stark atmosphere (the press release calls it “sleek”) for IA…
Liberty Media Asks FTC To Convert TW Shares To Voting Ahead Of Schedule; Asks For Federal Approval T
Some late-night announcements from John Malone’s Liberty Media, very much in need of unlocking its own share value, regarding its stakes in…
IAC’s Readying For Content Acquisitions?
(sub. req.) A small note in the latest BW magazine: As we covered earlier, Diller’s IAC has hired a content guy to develop original content…
Earnings: Diller: Content Plans Are “Very Embryonic,” Acquisition Costs Are “Wildly Overhot”: Audio
During the q-and-a session, Barry Diller, IAC’s chairman and CEO, answered questions about the company’s content plans in light of the appoi…
Earnings: IAC Revenues Up 45 Percent For 4Q05; Turns Profit Compared To 4Q04 Loss
A strong quarter for IAC with established and emerging businesses contributing. The company had net income of $113 million, or 33 cents per…
IAC Names Programming Chief; Diller’s Back To Show Business?
This will get some tongues wagging: Barry Diller’s returning to programming, at least in some form. His Internet company IAC/InterActiveCorp…
Diller’s IAC Plans Growth For Ask Jeeves Unit
Ask’s 650-person staff will increase by 20 percent in coming months as the search unit strives to fulfill its potential, TheStreet.com repor…
Ask Chooses GoFish For Multimedia Content
Ask Jeeves is integrating multimedia content from GoFish Technologies with its own search technology and results. The first phase, already l…
Earnings: IAC’s Revs Buoyed By Ask
IAC/InterActiveCorp’s Q3 revenues beat anaylsts estimates for the third quarter. Adjusted net income was $114.6 million compared with $70.4…
Diller Vs The Rest: Will It Happen Again?
If you ask me, on the face of it, no. Not this time. But betting against Diller has not stood the test of time in the past…his big bet wit…
Ask Jeeves Plans to Drop Butler Mascot
So much for the Jeeves: it is being dropped. AskJeeves, acquired by IAC/InterActiveCorp earlier this year, plans to phase out Jeeves charact…
Now Backed By Diller’s IACI, Ask Jeeves Preps European Expansion
Single-digit rankings in today’s heated search environment doesn’t cut it for a general search engine and it isn’t enough for Ask Jeeves, es…
Barry Diller Helps Ask Jeeves Get In Shape
That’s Ask Jeeves CEO Steve Berkowitz, in a keynote speech here at the Search Engine Strategies conference yesterday. With IAC’s deep pocket…
Earnings: IAC Reports Sharper Profits; To Revive AskJ
IAC/InterActiveCorp’s Q2 profite were about eight times higher than a year ago, mainly because of a large gain from the sale of stakes in tw…
AskJeeves Launches Contextual Ad Network
AskJeeves has made the switch: it is launching an upstart advertising network powered by its own search engine, a move likely to rankle its…
Ask Jeeves Now Part Of IAC; Aug. 8 Expedia Spin-off Approved
ASKJ is no more. As of Tuesday’s market close, Ask Jeeves was delisted as one of the last steps before being folded into Barry Diller’s IAC/…
Diller’s Plans With AskJeeves
A good interview with Barry Diller on how he sees all the pieces of IAC tying together once the AskJeeves marger is complete. Diller ultimat…
Search Now One Of The Most Popular Online Activities
Adult internet users go online for search more often than entertainment, e-commerce of even IM, according to a study by Harris Interactive f…
Ask Jeeves' Bloglines Hits 500 Million Articles In Database But Search Still Lags
Ask Jeeve’s Bloglines continues to amass articles in its searchable database, announcing the half-billion mark today. The size of the Blogli…
Diller's IAC/Interactive Sells Stake In VUE To NBCU for $3.4 Billion In Stock, Cash
The ending has been written to one of the oddest chapters in entertainment industry history: Barry Diller has agreed finally to a deal that…
Diller: AskJeeves May Be Renamed
At the D conference, Barry Diller told an audience that the more he learns about the search capabilities of AskJeeves, which IAC bought last…
Ask Jeeves Aquires Excite Europe For $7.67 Million
Ask Jeeves isn’t just sitting around, waiting for its own acquisition by IAC/ Interactive to be completed. The search company continues to g…
Ask Jeeves, Infospace Settle Excite Litigation
: Ask Jeeves and InfoSpace have settled their litigation over Excite.com, agreeing to “mutually support” the search and portal functions of…
AskJeeves Has High Hopes; Some Concerns Too
AskJeeves has high hopes once it gets integrated within IAC…”We’re going to have access to more capital, more opportunities. We get to pla…
Earnings: Diller’s IACI Hit The Mark In 1Q05
Barry Diller’s patience at IAC/Interactive is starting to pay off in the earnings, even if the stock market continues the cold shoulder. Rev…
Finding News Easy As A Snap?
Just followed a Silicon Valley Beat pointer to Snap’s beta news search engine. It isn’t going to put other news search services out of busin…
Ask Jeeves Q1 Profits Climb
Ask Jeeves’ Q1 profit rose 36 percent from last year, as its revenue more than doubled over a year ago, helped by recent acquisitions and st…
Ask Jeeves Profit Rises; Excite, iWon Growth Stalled
In an otherwise good quarter for AskJeeves, the company’s recent acquisition have stalled it growth. The company’s iWon and Excite Web sites…
Butler’s Retiring, For Sure
Looks like AskJeeves wants to get rid of the butler image…for good. It’s either that or just a gimmick…
Ask Jeeves CEO on Acquisitions Etc
An interview with AskJeeves CEO Steve Berkowitz on its plans in search and the acquisition of Interactive Search Holdings in March. “This is…
Ask Jeeves Increases In-Box Size For Excite
Are you excited about Excite? Yeah, though so…
AskJeeves Content Aspirations
Ask Jeeves has enhanced its search engine, and introduced a packaged results capability that pushes it into the content/Yahoo space, sorta.…
AskJeeves Buys MyWay & Excite Parent for $343 Million
Ask Jeeves is buying the privately owned Interactive Search Holdings (ISH) for about $343 million…ISH properties and brands include My Way…
AskJeeves As the Music Search Engine?
So how are search engines going to capitalize on the recent activity in the legal online music market? One answer, given by Steve Berkowitz,…
