CEO Barry Diller

New York Daily News Internet-TV Firm Gets IAC Backing Wall Street Journal By CHRISTOPHER S. STEWART An Internet-TV start-up backed by media veteran Barry Diller could tempt more television viewers to cut the cable cord, but it might be in for a fight from media companies. The company, Aereo, unveiled plans on Wednesday to ... Aereo likely to face fight over its plans to distribute broadcast TV Los Angeles Times Introducing Aereo: One Small Step For Cord Cutting, One Giant Leap Of Faith Wired...Read Full Story

VentureBeat Aereo streams local broadcast TV anywhere (aka Barry Diller's answer to ... VentureBeat Influential media businessman Barry Diller was on hand today for the debut of new startup Aereo TV, a streaming video service that aims to steal consumers away from the expensive cable and satellite television providers. Aereo allows users to a live ... Start-up that streams broadcast TV picks up $20M in venture funds Communications, Engineering & Design Magazine Aereo gets $20.5 million and...Read Full Story

Image via CrunchBase From Ask.com to Match.com, IAC/Interactive (NASDAQ: IACI) has been one of the leading content providers on the Internet for the average consumer. While high-powered users of the Web may scoff at the pedestrian quality of the IAC line of websites, online destinations like Dictionary.com and Urbanspoon form a growing part of the path that millions of web surfers travel every day. And if the recent progress in the stock is any indication, this has been a good...Read Full Story

CNN's Poppy Harlow w/ IAC's Barry Diller Two of the more notable keynote interviews at SxSW happened Monday morning. The first featured CNN business reporter Poppy Harlow's chummy t ete-a-tete with IAC chairman Barry Diller before a packed house at the Austin Convention Center. The second showcased two Twitter-verified luminaries - Mashable founder Pete Cashmore and Foursquare founder Dennis Crowley -- hamming it up on stage. To Poppy's credit, she managed to cover most of the important...Read Full Story

NEW YORK ( Reuters ) - Barry Diller resigned as chairman of Live Nation Entertainment Inc because he had grown tired of dealing with rifts among board members over strategy, fellow director and Liberty Media Chairman John Malone said in an interview on Friday. Diller's plan to step down as chairman Live Nation was leaked earlier this week, stoking speculation that the future of the world's largest live music company was in jeopardy and reviving stories of tension between Malone and Diller...Read Full Story