Barry Diller Talks Aereo Lawsuit and Location-Based Services
Save the hype surrounding location-based social discovery apps like Highlight, Glancee and Sonar. That talk bores Barry Diller, chairman and senior executive of IAC. Diller, who also serves as...
View ArticleFacebook IPO Colors Internet Week
For the most part, conference sessions can be canned affairs. But, for the most part, that’s not the case when Barry Diller’s onstage. It may be that the IAC chairman and senior executive is at such a...
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LendingTree Is Back in Review
LendingTree is at it again. Less than a year after a protracted search for a new lead agency, the online player is reviewing its creative business once more. Company executives will meet with about a...
View ArticleHarman Pulls Support From 'Newsweek'
After audio equipment tycoon Sidney Harman died in April 2011, his widow Jane Harman stood at a podium before the Newsweek Daily Beast newsroom to publicly proclaim her family’s commitment to the...
View ArticleWill 'Newsweek' Switch to Digital-Only?
Are we close to seeing the end of Newsweek as we know it? Earlier today, comments made by Barry Diller during an IAC/InterActiveCorp earnings call insinuated that the 79-year-old magazine could...
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Facebook Pushing Further Into Search Ads
Is Facebook pushing further into Google's territory? It sure looks that way, as the company has quietly begun rolling out more search-driven advertising, including a new category of Sponsored search...
View ArticleCBS Interactive, nRelate Partner in Curation
Those in the online publishing game constantly compete for the chance to put content in front of Internet users, and a new partnership between CBS Interactive and the content discovery platform...
View ArticleWhy Newsweek's Digital Move Makes Sense
No one really believes Newsweek is going to create the first successful subscription-based digital publication, when that format has been a failure so far. But even if it doesn’t, the approach makes...
View ArticleHuge's Unusual Romance With OKCupid
If OKCupid's newest blind-dating app does well enough, digital agency Huge will get some of the cash. The Interpublic Group shop created the OKCupid app—"Crazy Blind Date"—for the IAC-owned dating...
View ArticleIAC Shutters Hatch Labs
IAC has shut down Hatch Labs, its startup incubator aimed at developing mobile apps and technology. According to a company spokesperson, the Hatch business, the result of a partnership between IAC...
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Report: IAC Seeks Buyer for Newsweek [Updated]
IAC has confirmed reports that it's seeking a buyer for the hobbled newsweekly, which has already been sold twice in the past three years, then ended its U.S. print edition. In a memo, The Daily Beast...
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Newsweek Daily Beast CEO Baba Shetty Resigns
Baba Shetty, the Newsweek Daily Beast Co. CEO, is leaving the company ahead of Newsweek's planned sale, Tina Brown announced today in a company-wide memo. Shetty, who was the chief of strategy and...
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Tina Brown Leaving The Daily Beast to Start Her Own Company [Updated]
Tina Brown's days at The Daily Beast are numbered. The seasoned editor will leave the company in January, after her contract ends, to start an eponymous enterprise called Tina Brown Live Media, Daily...
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The Daily Beast Has a Post-Tina Brown Future—For Now
The Daily Beast will live to see another year—but beyond that is anyone's guess."The Daily Beast is not for sale and is not closing," interim CEO Rhona Murphy said in a statement Friday. "[Parent...
View ArticleLayoffs Hit The Daily Beast
The Daily Beast may be spared from shuttering for at least another year, but it will continue to operate with a staff that's about two dozen employees lighter, according to Adweek sister publication...
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IAC's PR Chief Apparently Tweeted a Bizarrely Tasteless Joke About AIDS and...
UPDATE: A rep for IAC tells Valleywag:"This is an outrageous, offensive comment that does not reflect the views and values of IAC. Unfortunately, the employee in question is unreachable on an...
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Brands, Web Celebrities and Anonymous Join Global Mockery of PR Pro's AIDS Tweet
UPDATE: Despite an overwhelmingly positive response from Twitter users, Gogo has apologized for its tweet making fun of Justine Sacco:@JustineSacco,apologize for response to your tweet.Right or...
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Justine Sacco Fired by IAC for 'Hope I Don't Get AIDS' Tweet
UPDATE: Justine Sacco has issued the following written apology to South African newspaper The Star, according to ABC News:"Words cannot express how sorry I am, and how necessary it is for me to...
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Former FCC Chairman Goes Wall Street
Former Federal Communications Commission chairman Julius Genachowski has landed himself a lucrative new gig in private equity. In his new position as managing director and partner for The Carlyle...
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Diller: Aereo Is ‘Finished’ If It Loses Supreme Court Battle
Should Aereo lose its impending U.S. Supreme Court case, backer Barry Diller believes it’ll be game over for the upstart distributor. Speaking to anchor Erik Schatzker during an appearance on...
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