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 more »
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 more »
Broadcasters have a history of squashing disruptive technologies in court — and the new cord-cutting service Aereo could well be their next… Read more »
IAC (NSDQ: IACI) CEO Barry Diller told investors this summer that the company could tolerate the continued losses at the combined Newsweek/D… Read more »
Chelsea Clinton — yes, that Chelsea Clinton — and Sonali De Rycker, a partner at Accel Partners in London, are joining the board of Barry… Read more »
IAC’s media businesses — The Daily Beast/Newsweek, digital entertainment studio Electus and video site College Humor — don’t often get a l… Read more »
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 more »
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 more »
IAC’s local advertising network CityGrid Media has acquired the remaining stake in social media analyzer BuzzLabs as it looks to provide add… Read more »
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 more »
IAC (NSDQ: IACI) turned in another solid quarter as revenues from search, dating site Match and local home improvement site ServiceMagic all… Read more »
IAC (NSDQ: IACI), which already had a long-standing agreement with Google (NSDQ: GOOG) under which the dominant search engine powered the se… Read more »
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… Read more »
Ashkan Karbasfrooshan is CEO of WatchMojo, a video content producer. He tweets at @ashkan.
As my company, WatchMojo, celebrates its fifth… Read more »
Mindspark Interactive Network, the IAC (NSDQ: IACI) unit that houses various online contest and gaming properties, has acquired the gaming p… Read more »
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… Read more »
IAC (NSDQ: IACI), which rejiggered its operations during the most recent quarter, laying off employees at its search business and swapping E… Read more »
» The Newspaper Guild of New York, which represents Newsweek edit staffers, has given its assent to merger between the magazine I… Read more »
The online dating industry is now about 15 years old, but sites continue to be dogged by allegations that they’re bloated with fake or inact… Read more »
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… Read more »
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… Read more »
» As Newsweek merges with The Daily Beast, Tina Brown has turned to Bloomberg BusinessWeek managing director Ciro Scotti to help… Read more »
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… Read more »
» As Comcast’s Steve Burke prepares to run the show at NBC Universal (NYSE: GE) after the merger is finalized, changing the way a… Read more »
» Twitter is testing an analytics tool that will let users know which tweets possibly brought in more followers and which ones le… Read more »
Hyperlocal news aggregator Outside.in has been testing targeted ads from IAC’s CityGrid ad network. CityGrid, parent of the Citysearch local… Read more »
Some consolidation in the online party planning space: Punchbowl, which offers a suite of party planning services — from online invites to… Read more »
Updated: Newsweek and The Daily Beast will merge after all in a deal forged despite a misunderstanding that stopped earlier negotiations. Th… Read more »
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… Read more »
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… Read more »
IAC (NSDQ: IACI) once again posted a better-than-expected jump in quarterly revenue, as the company benefited from double-digit sales growth… Read more »
» There was a lot of drama between Newsweek owner Sidney Harman, IAC (NSDQ: IACI) chief Barry Diller and The Daily Beast’s Tina B… Read more »
» Tribune Company’s board appears to have had enough and is preparing to ask CEO Randy Michaels to step down. The move follows la… Read more »
» As expected, Warner Bros. (NYSE: TWX) Television Group has acquired a majority stake in UK production company Shed Media. [The… Read more »
» Two weeks after New York magazine called him the “Demon Blogger of Fleet Street,” Nick Denton gets another profile that emphasi… Read more »
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… Read more »
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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… Read more »
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