Chelsea Clinton—yes, that Chelsea Clinton—and Sonali De Rycker, a partner at Accel Partners in London, are joining the board of Barry Diller’s IAC (NSDQ: IACI).

IAC’s media businesses—The Daily Beast/Newsweek, digital entertainment studio Electus and video site College Humor—don’t often get a lot of attention during the company’s earnings calls, since they’re fairly small compared to the dating properties and the search business. But CEO Barry Diller said that will likely change within the next…

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 search - pushed revenue up by nearly a quarter to $485.4 million.

The promise of mobile advertising is resting more and more on local targeting efforts, but the practice is not necessarily as easy as it sounds. IAC’s local advertising network CityGrid Media’s latest mobile ad effort involves enticing app developers to do more of the work by including more local businesses…

IAC’s local advertising network CityGrid Media has acquired the remaining stake in social media analyzer BuzzLabs as it looks to provide additional layers of social media analysis to its marketing and publishing partners.

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 one analyst wondered that during the company’s Q1 earnings call, but CEO and chairman Barry Diller waved that idea off—at least for now.

IAC (NSDQ: IACI) turned in another solid quarter as revenues from search, dating site Match and local home improvement site ServiceMagic all rose in double digits. Even the media segment, which absorbed Newsweek as part of a joint venture with The Daily Beast during the early part of the quarter,…

		EPS*	Rev. vs Q110	Net Inc. vs Q110
IAC	Release		25%	58%

* vs. Analysts' Estimates: Beat Met Missed

IAC (NSDQ: IACI), which already had a long-standing agreement with Google (NSDQ: GOOG) under which the dominant search engine powered the search ads on Ask.com and some of the company’s other sites, has now extended the deal through 2016. The agreement, which had been renewed at least once previously, was…

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 board, which already included big media names such as former Dow Jones (NSDQ: NWS) CEO Richard Zannino, Warner Music CEO Edgar Bronfman Jr., and, of course, chairman…

Ashkan Karbasfrooshan is CEO of WatchMojo, a video content producer. He tweets at @ashkan. As my company, WatchMojo, celebrates its fifth year in business, it is interesting to look back at how our distribution and monetization strategy has shifted.

Mindspark Interactive Network, the IAC (NSDQ: IACI) unit that houses various online contest and gaming properties, has acquired the gaming platform created by VoxPop. The VoxPop platform, including its trivia engine, has been used to power pop culture games in genres ranging from music to news. Mindspark will attach the…

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-supported dating site OkCupid would round out IAC’s dating offerings. “Different people at different stages want different things,” he said. Blatt said OKCupid, which lets users build…

IAC (NSDQ: IACI), which rejiggered its operations during the most recent quarter, laying off employees at its search business and swapping Evite and Gifts.com for Liberty Media’s holdings in the company, posted a better-than-expected 27 percent increase in sales. All of the company’s business units reported increases in revenue for…

		EPS*	Rev. vs Q0409	Net Inc. vs Q0409
IAC	Release		27%	N/A

* vs. Analysts' Estimates: Beat Met Missed

Some of the stories people are talking about this morning:»  The Newspaper Guild of New York, which represents Newsweek edit staffers, has given its assent to merger between the magazine IAC’s Daily Beast. [Release] »  Granted, it was noteworthy that Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) handily beat analysts’ Q4 estimates. But the…

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 inactive profiles. Attorneys who filed the newest lawsuit in this vein, on behalf of five Match.com users who are asking for class action status, say their…

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 its roots as a Q&A service. But in the process of doing that, it’s been asking the biggest question of all: is mobile the way forward…

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 week. Blatt used the interview to go over his approach to IAC’s various businesses, which doesn’t seem very different than that of his predecessor,…

Some of the stories people are talking about this morning:»  As Newsweek merges with The Daily Beast, Tina Brown has turned to Bloomberg BusinessWeek managing director Ciro Scotti to help guide the titles through the combination. [Mediaweek] »  A large Borders shareholder wants the company to buy its bigger competitor…

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…