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November 23rd, 2008 |
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The Federal Trade Commission is likely to issue its recommendations on behavioral targeting rules within the next few weeks, and while the Online Publishers Association expects the FTC to keep its policy of industry self-regulation intact, it is not taking any chances. It has created a new government affairs office [...]
In the Q3 earnings call, Barry Diller dropped multiple hints about closing down or selling some of what IAC (NSDQ: IACI) calls its "emerging businesses". And he said that it would happen within the next month. On the call: "No businesses in the emerging sectors are carrying any big investments. [...]
You can almost hear the relief from the Gehry-designed HQ as IAC (NSDQ: IACI) reports what chairman and CEO Barry Diller calls "the last quarter when the costs of our spin-offs will distort the operating performance." Post-spin IAC posted a 10 percent increase in revenue for Q3, to $369.3 million [...]
CitySquares.com has picked up an unspecified amount of funding from Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban and the Kraft Group's Jonathan Kraft. It's the Boston-based hyperlocal search company's second round—the first was from the eCoast Angel Network in April 2007. CitySquares used those funds to expand from just covering Boston to [...]
One of the concerns lawmakers and regulators have about the (currently suspended) Google/Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) search ad pact is that it would make Yahoo's search business a permanent also-ran to Google (NSDQ: GOOG). So a cynical mind might suppose that a post on Yahoo's Search Blog about its forthcoming online [...]
-- HealthCentral Network: Peter Horn has joined the company as its chief revenue officer, responsible for all sales marketing and ad ops. He'll also be leading the company's ad relationship with IAC. With over a decade of interactive media sales experience, Horn most recently worked at Microsoft for seven years, [...]
By now, anyone who's been paying attention knows that Tina Brown's online project with Barry Diller's backing is called The Daily Beast after the paper in Evelyn Waugh's Scoop. Brown's high-profile move to the web from glossy print is scheduled to go live Monday at 7 a.m. eastern, in the [...]
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September 29th, 2008 |
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In keeping with AOL's (NYSE: TWX) blog-a-week rollout that it's been doing for the past year to revamp its portal site, the Time Warner company is looking back to its Digital City brand. The site used to resemble IAC's (NSDQ: IACI) CitySearch network, but Digital City's new incarnation is more [...]
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September 17th, 2008 |
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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 [...]
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September 11th, 2008 |
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A ton of digits have been devoted to this in other spots but the SEC's decision to investigate takes it to another level. The backstory: a six-year-old news story about UAL declaring bankruptcy made it into the Tribune-owned Sun-Sentinel's current news flow, was picked up by a Google (NSDQ: GOOG) [...]
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September 4th, 2008 |
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The HealthCentral Network, the heavily-backed online health and wellness information network, has bought out HIV/AIDS patient resource TheBody.com and HIV/AIDS health professional resource TheBodyPro.com, as well as its parent company NYC-based Body Health Resources Corp. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. TheBody was founded 10 years ago...this is [...]
Some stories for this long holiday weekend in U.S.: -- Chinese Online Traffic Exceeds U.S. Web Sites During Olympics: So says WebTrends, citing its own analytics. To be expected, if only because of sheer numbers in China. CCTV.com, the site run by national broadcaster China Central TV, drew more than [...]
IAC (NSDQ: IACI) finally has set the date for its long-awaited split into five separate companies to take place: Aug. 21. Before that, the "when-issued" trading period in the common stock of HSN, Inc., Interval Leisure Group, Inc., Ticketmaster and Tree.com, Inc. and IAC will happen Tuesday, Aug. 12. The [...]
If you have to look it up, you're probably mystified about the name of Tina Brown's newest venture: The Daily Beast. That would seem to be a problem—her last publishing title Talk said it all; then again, that was no guarantee of success. The homage to Evelyn Waugh and his [...]
If you must think of every new thing as the "something-killer" then you'd probably call Life123 an About.com-killer, or a Mahalo killer, or a Google (NSDQ: GOOG) Knol killer. Fortunately, as Robert Deutsch, VP of content development & operations at the new IAC-owned unit, assured me, About.com doesn't have to [...]
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July 18th, 2008 |
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Evite is getting long in the tooth. Every day it seems there is some new startup ready to take it down: Pingg, Socializr, Center'd, MyPunchbowl, Presdo. Well, today the IAC-owned invitation juggernaut is fighting back. Or at least, it's stirring. Evite is launching a new design in beta today. (On [...]
This was expected, but still you can't take anything for granted in this environment: IAC (NSDQ: IACI) said this afternoon that it has successfully raised about $2 billion in debt, associated with its spinoff plan. Specifically, the company raised $840 million through bonds and another $1.15 billion through senior notes. [...]
Expedia is following its acquisition of a majority of India's TravelGuru site by buying Venere.com, an Italy-based travel site listing about 29,000 hotels in Europe and the US, for an undisclosed amount.. All told, it means an extra 10,000 Europe, Middle East and Africa hotels for Expedia. Venere, which has [...]
Socialmedian, the social news site started by former Jobster CEO Jason Goldberg, has been nurturing its seed round into a sapling for a while and now added more investors, or at least in the process of adding: TechConfidential reports that new backers include Gordon Crovitz, former publisher of The Wall [...]
As IAC (NSDQ: IACI) attempts to buildup Ask.com, it's made a point of de-emphasizing syndicated search in favor of higher-yield organic search. Doug Anmuth touched on that in the report we discussed this morning. But it's not going to stop doing these deals. The company announced that it's now powering [...]
New IAC (NSDQ: IACI) stands to get about $1.5 billion in cash once the big breakup plan is complete. It'll be a bit less, since LendingTree will be sent on its way with a little extra spending money. So the question is: What's New IAC's growth plan and how will [...]
