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Vimeo partners with Atlantic, CBS to take paid videos everywhere
IAC-owned video service Vimeo took the next step for its Vimeo On Demand platform Thursday: Vimeo’s paid videos are now available on the websites of…
Read MoreVimeo CTO renews commitment to add Chromecast support
Good news for Chromecast owners: Vimeo hasn’t given up on the streaming stick, and plans to add cast support to its apps…
Read MoreVimeo invests another $10 million in premium VOD content
Vimeo wants to spend another $10 million on exclusive content for its Vimeo On Demand platform -- but not everyone is invited to apply.…
Read MoreTina 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…
Read MoreBarry Diller: The internet is eating the cable company
"The domino is going to fall," IAC chairman Barry Diller predicted. How fast and how hard, we don't exactly know, but the television market is ripe for change.…
Read MoreBarry Diller and Scott Rudin launch book publisher with startup Atavist
Barry Diller, Scott Rudin, publishing exec Frances Coady and Brooklyn publishing startup Atavist are working together to form an ebook publisher. Many details are sketchy, but it seems clear that Diller is willing to put a lot of money into the venture.…
Read MoreDiller To Networks: Get Radio Shack To Pay Retrans & Aereo Will Too
Barry Diller's latest investment in media disruption hasn't even launched yet and it's already in court. That's part of the appeal of Aereo……
Read MoreWhy The Diller-Backed Aereo Will Need Some Fancy Lawyers
Broadcasters have a history of squashing disruptive technologies in court -- and the new cord-cutting service Aereo could well be their next……
Read MoreIAC-backed Aereo makes a big play for cord cutters
The promise of cord-cutting may get a lot brighter with the introduction of Aereo, a new TV broadcast service backed by IAC that enables mobile devices, set-top boxes, TVs and PCs to receive local broadcast programming over the Internet.…
Read MoreMore Turmoil At Newsweek/Daily Beast As Three Top Executives Exit
IAC (NSDQ: IACI) CEO Barry Diller told investors this summer that the company could tolerate the continued losses at the combined Newsweek/D……
Read MoreIAC’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.…
Read MoreVimeo has 150,000 paying subscribers
When it comes to online video, YouTube, Netflix and Hulu dominate the headlines. Spare a minute for Vimeo, which according to Barry Diller, chairman of Vimeo owner IAC had about 150,000 paying subscribers at the end of September 2011.…
Read MoreSEC Watch: Chelsea Clinton Joins IAC Board
Chelsea Clinton -- yes, that Chelsea Clinton -- and Sonali De Rycker, a partner at Accel Partners in London, are joining the board of Barry……
Read MoreIAC’s first mobile hatchling, Blu Trumpet, takes flight
IAC introduced its mobile incubator program Hatch Labs in March, calling it a technology sandbox where innovative mobile ideas can be prototyped. The first graduate, Blu Trumpet, is now launching and is taking on the problem of app monetization for publishers and app distribution for advertisers.…
Read MoreIAC’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……
Read MoreIAC 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……
Read MoreMeet Proust, a social network that digs deeper
Even in these days of social networking over-sharing, some of the most important details of our lives remain in completely unwritten form. Proust, a startup that bills itself as a private place for families and friends to share memories, is trying to change exactly that.…
Read MoreCityGrid 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……
Read MoreIAC’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……
Read MoreIAC’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……
Read MoreIAC 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……
Read MoreIAC 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……
Read MoreIAC Adds Eisner To Its Board
A high profile addition to IAC's board: Michael Eisner. The former Disney (NYSE: DIS) CEO will become the thirteenth member of the company's……
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