Two moves today for IAC (NSDQ: IACI) that most companies would separate but in this case decided to pair: Barry Diller has stepped aside as CEO, making way for Greg Blatt, president of Match.com, just as the company solves the conundrum of how to handle its relationship with John Malone’s…

Asked by Michael Arrington at TechCrunch Disrupt for his take on company-of-the-week AOL (NYSE: AOL), IAC (NSDQ: IACI) CEO Barry Diller only had praise for AOL’s moves. “For the first time in more than ten years ... which in an internet company of such size is an eternity ... real…

Despite the big push that Ask.com’s latest relaunch got this week, parent company IAC (NSDQ: IACI) doesn’t expect it to set the world on fire. During the company’s Q2 conference call, analysts had a lot of questions about the IAC search vehicle, which is now emphasizing direct questions and answers…

Count IAC (NSDQ: IACI) Chairman and CEO Barry Diller among those who believe the iPad will provide a real boost to the online media business. “I haven’t met a single person who has got one and doesn’t smile every time they use it,” he said during the company’s earnings call.…

In case you didn’t get it the first few times, yes, IAC (NSDQ: IACI) Chairman and CEO Barry Diller still believes the search market will consolidate—and no, he isn’t trying to make it happen. He told analysts on the Q4 IAC earnings call: “I don’t know what form that consolidation…

Notional wants to be taken seriously. That might be a little tough ordinarily for a new cross-platform video production company birthed by a website called CollegeHumor but Notional has great genes and, in Barry Diller, a godfather with serious pull. It also has a very real slate with production commitments…

Joey Levin moves from corporate M&A and finance to CEO of Mindspark Interactive Network, the IAC collection of “fun web products” like Zwinky, succeeding John Park, who wants a more entrepreneurial life after a decade with IAC (NSDQ: IACI). Levin was SVP for M&A and finance. On the M&A side,…

Although IAC (NSDQ: IACI) swung to profit in Q2, with net income of $40.8 million ($0.28 cents per share) from last year’s loss of $422 million (-$3.02 per share), the company failed to meet analysts expectations. But the Barry Diller-owned company’s continued struggle with search, along with the still dismal…

Updated; Barry Diller just solved Jeff Zucker’s Ben Silverman problem. In an unexpected turn of events announced this morning, Silverman will join Diller at IAC (NSDQ: IACI) to start an as-yet-unnamed multi-platform production company; he plans to stay at NBC Universal (NYSE: GE) through the launch of the fall season.…

Drippy Manhattan evenings aren’t usually a draw for an outdoor cocktail party but the FoundersClub NYC Internet Week soiree had something that overcomes a little rain: power. Barry Diller, the chairman and CEO of IAC (NSDQ: IACI), was hosting two of the hottest not-so-new guys in town—AOL’s Tim Armstrong and…

Update:RushmoreDrive.com will be closing Friday, according to an IAC (NSDQ: IACI) spokeswoman who said the move is “part of our continued effort to rationalize the IAC emerging businesses.” The closure affects 17 employees; some people will be staying as the site’s business winds down and IAC said it will help…

Barry Diller’s (pictured, right) IAC (NSDQ: IACI) lost $3.2 million on $332 million in revenue during the first quarter, part of a mixed batch of results that shows improvements in some areas but continued weakness in search and advertising. Revenue dropped 10 percent in the first quarter, down from $370.7…

Updated Some 300 business undergrads and MBA students at Washington University in St. Louis were treated to the Barry Diller show Monday afternoon, when the IAC (NSDQ: IACI) chairman and CEO was interviewed for the USA Today CEO Forum series by the paper’s senior media reporter David Lieberman. After the…

IAC’s earnings call today was particularly meaty, as Barry Diller shed new light on state of online advertising and talked about specific initiatives to improve the company’s search business and overall profitability. He confirmed that online advertising decelerated in January and continues to slump into February, not good news for…

Bring on the downturn! Barry Diller is still looking to buy websites, because the economy “tomorrow will present unknown opportunities.” The IAC (NSDQ: IACI) CEO told Reuters’ media summit in New York he expects a “‘cascade’ of acquisition opportunities at bargain prices,” Reuters reports. Acquisitions won’t come so much in…

Diller’s his usual cranky self this morning on IAC’s Q308 earnings conference call. “Congratulations to those who supported the winner, condolences to those who didn’t. After a short pause, we will be on to Election 2012.” —Acquisitions strategy: We want to run the company long term; we do not want…

Some rhetoric from IAC CEO Barry Diller, now in charge of a slimmed down New IAC (NSDQ: IACI). The result of the arduous spin is “not an outcome, it is a beginning.” A “fireside chat” with Diller at Goldman Sachs Communacopia marked his first conference appearance since the Old IAC…

Updated with video clips, after the jump, courtesy of AllThingsD: Barry Diller is on stage at D conference, speaking about the Liberty spat and his stint at Delaware court: “Partnerships are marriages without the ‘stuff’...the Delaware walkthrough is not my idea of life. What it was about was not the…

I’d rather be catching his presentation live from the Bellagio, though in Las Vegas, as IAC (NSDQ: IACI) CEO Barry Diller pointed out: “Having a meeting at 8 o’clock in the morning is like a crime on humanity.” Diller’s presentation at the Goldman Sachs Ninth Annual Internet Conference was his…