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… Read more »
Barnes & Noble Online Revs Surge; IAC’s Foley Tapped To Head E-Commerce
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Digital gave Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) a big sales boost from the previous quarter, but not enough to reverse revenue declines or prevent i… Read more »
Longtime IAC Executive Foley Leaves; MacDonald New Pronto CEO
John Foley, who most recently was serving as CEO of IAC-owned comparison shopping site Pronto and was also heading up Evite and Gifts.com, i… Read more »
IAC’s Diller: ‘I Was Wrong About Search Competition’
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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 fir… Read more »
Search And Dating Dollars Help Boost IAC Revs
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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… Read more »
Ask.com Searches For A More Human Touch With Latest Relaunch
IAC’s search site Ask.com has tried numerous incarnations to capture some of the traffic and advertising gold possessed by Google (NSDQ: GOO… Read more »
Citysearch — The Company, Not The Site — Changes Name To CityGrid Media
Local guide network Citysearch LLC will now be known as CityGrid Media, as the IAC (NSDQ: IACI) unit looks beyond its flagship site, which w… Read more »
Mahalo Hires Former IAC Exec Rapp As President
Jason Rapp, the former IAC (NSDQ: IACI) SVP of M&A who left the company a year-and-a-half ago, is joining Jason Calacanis’ Mahalo as preside… Read more »
Condé Nast Glamour Hooks Up With Match.com
Although magazines are getting a breather from the ad recovery, the realization that marketers’ spending isn’t going to make a full comeback… Read more »
Bartz Makes The Media Rounds: YHOO’s Soul Doesn’t Reside In Just One Person
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Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) CEO Carol Bartz, never one to shy away from a microphone, was seemingly everywhere today: from her morning press conferen… Read more »
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… Read more »
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… Read more »
Industry Moves: ESPN’s Gleeson, AskJeeves Europe, Financial Times
– AskJeeves: The search engine has added Google’s northern and central European marketing analyst Francine Rump as its European operations… Read more »
Match.com’s Dating Stat War Goes Beyond PlentyOfFish
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Match.com has sent letters to several rival dating sites demanding that they stop circulating what the company considers to be false statist… Read more »
IAC’s Diller: The iPad Is Going To Change “Many, Many Things”
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… Read more »
IAC’s Sales Up 16 Percent As Ask.com Rebounds
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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… Read more »
IAC’s Match.com Challenges PlentyOfFish’s Dating Stats
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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… Read more »
Updated: IAC, DJ Shutting Down Personal Finance JV FiLife Following Dramatic Traffic Decline
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IAC (NSDQ: IACI) and Dow Jones (NYSE: NWS) are shutting down FiLife today, paidContent has learned and IAC has confirmed. We reported last m… Read more »
PubMatic Raises $7.5 Million Third Round; Platform Adds IAC, United Online
PubMatic, the sell-side ad platform, has raised $7.5 million in a third round funding. The Palo Alto company has now raised $18 million sinc… Read more »
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… Read more »
Is FiLife Running On Borrowed Time?
Less than two months after talking up the turnaround at Dow Jones-IAC (NSDQ: IACI) personal finance JV FiLife, paidContent has learned the s… Read more »
In UK Search, Everyone’s Miles Behind Google, Bing’s Overtaking Yahoo
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Here’s why Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) is advertising Bing on UK TV: it’s barely making the tiniest dent in Google’s search leadership.
Though G… Read more »
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… Read more »
The Online Dating Recession
Match.com’s Thursday announcement that it had purchased Singlesnet was notable for its upfrontness; the company acknowledged that Singlesnet… Read more »
IAC’s Match.com Buys Dating Site Singlesnet
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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… Read more »
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… Read more »
Diller: ‘Ask Is Not For Sale’
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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 con… Read more »
IAC Writes Down Search Business; Takes $1 Billion Loss For Q4
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IAC (NSDQ: IACI) bit an accounting bullet in Q4, taking a $991 million impairment charge for its search & media business — including Ask an… Read more »
Kucharz Leaves IAC-DJ’s FiLife To Head CBS Local Digital Media; Wiener Promoted To GM
A little more than a year after joining FiLife as president and general manger, Ezra Kucharz is leaving to become president of CBS (NYSE: CB… Read more »
U.S., Canadian Regulators Clear The Way For Live Nation, Ticketmaster Merger
It’s taken nearly a year, but the U.S. Department of Justice has given the merger between Ticketmaster and Live Nation (NYSE: LYV). The new… Read more »
@ CES: Silverman’s Electus Has First Deal — Yahoo
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Just as one of his last moves at NBC — moving Jay Leno to prime time — starts to publicly unravel, Ben Silverman has the first deal for hi… Read more »
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… Read more »
Citysearch Adds Android To Its Local, Mobile App Lineup
Citysearch launched its Mobile by Citysearch app for Android today, meaning it now has an app available for each of the “core” smartphone OS… Read more »
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… Read more »
Daily Beast On The Syndication Trail
Now branching out in to e-books after recently marking its first birthday, Tina Brown’s Daily Beast is starting to syndicate its webzine con… Read more »
Citysearch Gets Real-Time Fever, Lets Biz Owners Log In, Update Twitter Remotely
The rush to incorporate real-time status updates has even hit IAC’s Citysearch. Starting today, business owners will be able to create and m… Read more »
Daily Beast Taps Former CNET, Dennis Publishing Exec Colvin As President
The Daily Beast has named publishing vet Stephen Colvin as the site Read more »
IAC’s Notional Flaunts TV Ambitions; Unveils Slate
Notional wants to be taken seriously. That might be a little tough ordinarily for a new cross-platform video production company birthed by a… Read more »
IAC’s Mindspark Changes CEOs; Fisher Takes Corporate M&A Lead
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Joey Levin moves from corporate M&A and finance to CEO of Mindspark Interactive Network, the IAC collection of “fun web products” like Zwink… Read more »
YouTube’s Content Head Jordan Hoffner Leaving To Join Ben Silverman’s New Venture
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Jordan Hoffner, the head of content partnerships for YouTube, is leaving the company, and joining Ben Silverman’s new content venture at IAC… Read more »
