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...
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?...
IN HIS QUEST TO DOMINATE THE SEARCH ENGINE GALAXY, Barry Diller, chairman-CEO of IAC/InterActiveCorp, parent company of Ask.com, is going to crib from Darth Vader's playbook, not Luke Skywalker's. At a keynote Q&A session with SearchEngineWatch E IN HIS QUEST TO DOMINATE THE SEARCH ENGINE GALAXY,...
For more than a decade, Diller has been on a multibillion-dollar shopping spree that created one of the Web's busiest networks. Now he has announced a plan to spin off HSN, Lending Tree, Interval, and Ticketmaster. If the restructuring goes through, the n For more than a decade, Diller has...
Despite rampant speculation to the contrary, USA Interactive Inc. chairman Barry Diller told analyst and reporters last week he has no designs on acquiring the entertainment assets of Vivendi Universal SA. But Diller said other acquisitions -- Despite rampant...
For years, folks have been wondering if Barry Diller, once the wunderkind of Hollywood, had truly lost his fastball, as he seemingly bounced from one aimless pipe dream to another. But apparently, Diller has been doing his homework and honing ...
Should broadcasters trade the revenue generated by political advertising for a more relaxed regulatory climate? Maverick media mogul Barry Diller thinks broadcasters should at least consider the idea. More than just a show of good faith,...
Says he will engage only in one-on-one negotiations You hate to throw an auction if your biggest buyer isn't showing up. That's the prospect for Cablevision Systems' auction of its Rainbow Media entertainment networks that had been scheduled ...
In its last quarterly conference call before the pending combination of its Entertainment Group and Vivendi Universal S.A. -- and the subsequent formation of USA Interactive -- USA Networks Inc. turned in one of its best quarters ever. Cash f ...
Barry Diller is looking to unload Home Shopping Network. He no longer considers the shopping channel, the core of his company since its inception, a pivotal asset of USA Interactive. He doesn't want to sell it outright but wants to find the...
Less than three years ago, James Held's life was towels. As a merchandising manager for Bloomingdale's. Held's responsibility was home furnishings, textiles. After 12 years at the premier department store chain, that post should be good experienc Less than three years ago,...
Byline: Diane Mermigas In a major round of executive musical chairs last week, Mel Karmazin re-upped as Viacom's chief operating officer and Barry Diller exited as CEO of Vivendi Universal Entertainment. Those two moves could lead to some big ...
With programing platform in place, new network said to be in works The long Thanksgiving holiday was a working weekend for Barry Diller. While most people were eating turkey, Diller and his new broadcasting company, Silver King Communications Inc. With programing platform in...
While consumed for weeks by his hostile takeover for Paramount Communications Inc., QVC Network Inc. chairman Barry Diller has found time to draw up a new blueprint for the company's new Q2 service. Q2 has puzzled both cable and Wall Street execut While...
Diller continues moves to "create a business that will perform to its optimum for shareholders" Diller continues moves to "create a business that will perform to its optimum for shareholders"
PARIS -- Vivendi Universal S.A. filed suit March 17 against USANi Sub LLC, a unit of Barry Diller's InterActiveCorp. The French media giant said Diller is delaying its plans to merge its Vivendi Universal Entertainment U.S. arm with General El ...
9 DISNEY DISH Tongues wagging via strategic leaks/publication of excerpts of James Stewart's almost-out opus "Disney War." (No, we haven't read it, and don't know what dirt about Diller it contains.) Sort of like the courtroom epic of Eisne 9 DISNEY DISH Tongues wagging via strategic...
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