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• Ask buys Dicionary.com parent, Lexico

  Search site Ask.com has agreed to buy online reference company Lexico Publishing Group. Through the deal, Ask will take over the Lexico-owned sites Dictionary.com, Thesaurus.com and Reference.com in a bid to expand its services. While terms of the deal have not been disclosed, The New York Times claims Ask...

  News items 2008-05-15

  Tags: Ask.com, Lexico Publishing Group, Google Inc., IAC/InterActive Corp.

• Ask buys Dictionary.com parent, Lexico

  Search site Ask.com has agreed to buy online reference company Lexico Publishing Group. Through the deal, Ask will take over the Lexico-owned sites Dictionary.com, Thesaurus.com and Reference.com in a bid to expand its services. While terms of the deal have not been disclosed, The New York Times claims Ask...

  News items 2008-05-15

  Tags: Ask.com, Lexico Publishing Group, Google Inc., IAC/InterActive Corp.

• IAC: Shareholder Value or Money Pit?

  IAC reported its first quarter earnings on Wednesday and it's the usual mix of mental hurdles, GAAP reconciliations and imagining what it could be. The big question: Is IAC really worth your time? IAC, an Internet conglomerate that's Barry Diller's baby, is planning to break itself up...

  Blog posts 2008-04-30

  Tags: Shareholder, IAC/InterActive Corp., Conglomerate, Financial Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan

• IAC Quarterly Profit Falls

  NEW YORK (Reuters) - IAC/InterActiveCorp IACI, which plans to spin off four of its largest units, said on Wednesday its quarterly profit fell from a year ago, hurt by declines at its catalog business and a loss at online mortgage site ...

  News items 2008-04-30

  Tags: Financial accounting, IAC/InterActive Corp., LendingTree, Home Shopping Network, Liberty Media Corp., quarterly profit, Porter five forces, Thomson Reuters Corp., net profit, New York, shareholder, search engine, cable, agreement, TV, advertisement, performance, network, I

• CollegeHumor Site Finds Ad Niche in Sponsorships

  By Michele Gershberg NEW YORK (Reuters) - CollegeHumor.com's founders want to help their audience members fulfill "their stupidest wish ever" -- maybe a machine to dress them in the morning or a chute from their bedroom to the front door. The idea, which...

  News items 2008-04-27

  Tags: IAC/InterActive Corp., bedroom, programming, advertiser, search listing, Web Advertising, advertisement, founder, Thomson Reuters Corp., partnership, New York, banner advertisement, digital media, online advertising, strategy, shareholder, newsletter, e-mail, Internet, Web

• Google Optimistic Regulators Won't Bar Yahoo: Source

  By Anupreeta Das SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google Inc GOOG believes regulators would not bar a potential business deal with Yahoo Inc YHOO because it would be "non-exclusive" and falls short of an outright merger, a person familiar with Google's thinking...

  News items 2008-04-25

  Tags: Business structures, Mergers & Acquisitions, Channel management, SEARCH, Yahoo! Inc., Google Inc., Google AdSense, antitrust, regulator, partnership, merger, Internet search, U.S. Department of Justice, search engine, Internet search advertising, San Francisco, Thomson R

• Google Profit Beats Forecasts, Shares Jump

  SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google GOOG on Thursday posted a better-than-expected profit, defying fears the company is facing an Internet advertising slowdown and sending its shares past the $500 mark in extended trade. The Web search leader, one of the hottest technology stocks...

  News items 2008-04-17

  Tags: Investment, SEARCH, Internet advertising, Google Inc., stock option, traffic acquisition cost, Thomson Reuters Corp., San Francisco, advertisement, Internet search advertising, stock, Internet search, net income, online advertising, Internet, Web

• Ask.com Layoffs Point to Confused Strategy at IAC

  Ask.com Layoffs Point to Confused Strategy at IACDiller's latest messupThis is a brilliant analysis of why Ask.com's new "strategy"is a mistake. Forget competing with Google, why not capitalize on catering to the many who have relied on Ask for the types of things they might otherwise have asked their Mom?...

  Discussion threads 2008-03-06

  Tags: Ask.com, Ask.com Layoffs Point, Diller, IAC/InterActive Corp., strategy

• Ask.com Layoffs Point to Confused Strategy at IAC

  Interactive Corp.'s identity crisis is nearly full blown. Barry Diller, the creator and would-be dismantler of IAC, is turning the company into a textbook example of how to blur a company's brand and how to confuse and and alienate customers, employees and partners. Diller quilted together a bunch of barely-alike...

  Blog posts 2008-03-06

  Tags: Workforce management, Kevin Kelleher, strategy, IAC/InterActive Corp., Barry Diller, Ask.com

• Diller Bets On Simplicity, Divides IAC

  The highest paid CEO of 2005, Barry Diller, announced today that he will break up his massive media and internet conglomerate IAC/Interactive Corp. into five separate companies. Diller explained the move in a statement: "I've always believed our complexity and many mouthfuls of sentences to explain...

  Blog posts 2007-11-05

  Tags: Branding, Advertising & Promotion, Financial accounting, Jessica Stillman, IAC/InterActive Corp., Barry Diller

• InterActiveCorp Gets Complete Visibility Into Individual and Team Sales Activities With Salesforce

  InterActiveCorp faced the challenge of an increasing number of sales people nationwide. InterActiveCorp lacked unified database for customer information. They wanted to avoid length & cost of conventional software implementation. The company selected salesforce.com's on-demand CRM solution over Siebel's software offering. This resulted in near-perfect performance with almost no down...

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  Tags: Sales force management, Customer relationship management (CRM), Enterprise software, IAC/InterActive Corp., Salesforce.com Inc., CRM solution, on-demand, CRM, team, database, software, performance, sales

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• IAC and Ticketmaster Executives to Participate at Upcoming Conferences

  NEW YORK, May 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- IAC and Ticketmaster executives will be participating in the following upcoming conferences: JPMorgan 36th Annual Technology Conference Participant: Mr. Tom McInerney, Executive Vice President & Chief ...

  Articles 2008-05-05

• IAC Reports Q1 Results

  NEW YORK, April 30 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- IAC released first quarter 2008 results today. SUMMARY RESULTS ...

  Articles 2008-04-30

• Siftsort.com Signs Multi-Year Agreement with IAC to Provide 20,000 Employees Online Document Storage

  NEW YORK, April 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Siftsort.com has signed a multi-year agreement with IAC to provide their family document storage solution as a human resource benefit to over 20,000 employees of IAC and its portfolio companies, operating over 60 diversified brands. Siftsort.com provides a simple and secure way to...

  Articles 2008-04-17

• BlueTie Adds More Than Two Million Users with IAC Partnership

  Excite.com, iWon.com and MyWay.com users will use BlueTie's email application and Featuretisements[TM] ROCHESTER, N.Y. -- BlueTie, Inc. (www.bluetie.com), the first company to offer hosted e-mail and calendaring integrated with the Web's most useful services, announced today that it has signed a multi-year strategic deal with IAC Consumer Applications...

  Articles 2008-04-16

• The HealthCentral Network and IAC Launch Health Advertising Network

  New Announcement Follows IAC's January Announcement of its Investment in HealthCentral ARLINGTON, Va., April 16 /PRNewswire/ -- The HealthCentral Network, Inc. (http://www.healthcentral.com/) and IAC today announced the launch of a high-quality ad network for pharmaceutical and health and wellness marketers. The platform will give marketers access...

  Articles 2008-04-16

• Colorado Springs Nonprofit Briefs: April 11, 2008

  SBA Gateway earns award The U.S. Small Business Administration's Business Gateway Initiative has been awarded the ACT/IAC Excellence.Gov Award for its Business.gov Web site. Business.gov is the official business link to the U.S. government and delivers services and information to the nation's small business...

  Articles 2008-04-11

• First-of-its-kind Search Engine to Deliver more Relevant Search Results to the Black Community launches April 10

  From IAC & Black Web Enterprises, Ground-breaking New Site Offers News, Information and Jobs for the Black Community CHARLOTTE, N.C., April 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- IAC, one of the world's largest internet services companies, together with Black Web Enterprises BWE, today launched RushmoreDrive.com- the first-of-its-kind online search engine...

  Articles 2008-04-10

• RushmoreDrive.com: A Web address for African-Americans

  A search engine launching today aims to deliver a better experience for black audiences. But Black Web Enterprises president Johnny Taylor is quick to point out that RushmoreDrive.com -- named after the street on which its Charlotte offices are located -- goes beyond search. Each query also returns...

  Articles 2008-04-10

• Avnet Electronics Marketing 'Behind the Wheel' Wins Best Design in Internet Advertising Competition

  PHOENIX -- NYSE: AVT - Avnet Electronics Marketing has received the Web Marketing Association's WMA Best Design Rich Media Online Campaign WebAward in 2008 for Behind the Wheel. Avnet received the award as part of the annual Internet Advertising Competition IAC. The WebAward IAC Awards were developed by...

  Articles 2008-04-08