CEO Barry Diller

Besides being hampered by weakness in the online advertising market, IAC/InterActiveCorp's Web-based city guide, Citysearch, is facing increasing competition from a rising tide of social review and recommendation sites. These include review site Yelp, which is seen as its biggest rival in the business-review space. During a conference call with analysts Tuesday to discuss IAC's third-quarter results, media mogul and IAC CEO Barry Diller discussed the possibility that IAC might grow... Read Full Story

IAC/InterActiveCorp reports earnings for the third quarter on Tuesday before the market opens. The following is a summary of key developments and analyst opinion related to the period: OVERVIEW: During the third quarter, the Barry Diller-led Internet company said it would begin a new media venture with Ben Silverman, who was leaving his post as co-chairman of NBC Entertainment. The venture, which was announced in July, will aim to bring advertisers into the development process for TV shows... Read Full Story

BARRY DILLER'S BRASH NEW STRATEGY Few moguls have reinvented themselves more often than Barry Diller. Over the past 17 years he has been a TV executive, home shopping baron, and, most recently, e-commerce impresario. Now, Diller is at it again, and his Act Four is decidedly contrarian. At a time when content providers are struggling to make money from online news, blogs, movies, music, and more, Diller is diving in. "[What] we're running now is a media-based interactive company," he says... Read Full Story

SILVERMAN BOWS OUT Rule No. 1 for a network suit: Create hits. Ben Silverman didn't do enough of that, so after an up-and-down, two-year reign as NBC Entertainment's co-chairman, he's escaping to join Barry Diller, whose IAC powerhouse will create a company with Silverman to make content for the Web and TV. The idea isn't fully cooked, but part of the plan is to involve advertisers in making shows that will feature their products and then, presumably, stream them on Match.com... Read Full Story

It was a week after the annual Allen & Co. mediafest, and Barry Diller, the fabled former Hollywood mogul and chairman of IAC/InterActiveCorp (IACI), was eager to chat. Just back from his trek to Sun Valley, Idaho, to join Herb Allen's annual convocation of moguls, Diller was talking about content and how, despite all the hoopla over the mass of online video that folks are watching, the whole notion is hopelessly unprofitable unless the media world can figure out a way to get people to ante... Read Full Story

Ask.com could soon be up for sale, judging by the comments of IAC CEO Barry Diller. (Credit: Screenshot by Tom Krazit/CNET) Ask.com could be on the block, judging by the comments of the CEO of its parent company. Reuters reported on IAC's third-quarter earnings conference call Tuesday, where CEO Barry Diller all but opened the bidding for the struggling search engine. Despite a novel promotional deal with Nascar , Ask.com has failed to make much headway against the great powers... Read Full Story

The search engine market was once a fairly predictable and intriguing place where the mantra was “Google-and-everybody-else.” There was innovation, but nobody really believed that Microsoft, Yahoo, or any other startup could pose a threat to Google’s search empire. The entire search market was thrown onto a roller coaster though when Microsoft revealed Bing to the world. The new search engine promised to not only be a remake of Microsoft Live Search, but a completely new take on how search... Read Full Story

Besides being hampered by weakness in the online advertising market, IAC/InterActiveCorp’s Web-based city guide, Citysearch, is facing increasing competition from a rising tide of social review and recommendation sites. These include review site Yelp, which is seen as its biggest rival in the business-review space. Read Full Story

The new IAC/InterActiveCorp Headquarters site is located on the West Side Highway across from the Chelsea Piers Complex. The nine-story concrete and glass building will house offices for InterActiveCorp, a group of Internet businesses with a focus on travel.On the side facing the river, the elevation will resemble a row of five glass town houses, crowned with three stretch penthouses. The glass will be insulated and have special coatings and patterned ceramic frits to improve energy... Read Full Story

I had a chance to attend Digital Hollywood's Advertising 2.0 confab these last two days -- or at least two of the three keynotes that interested me. (I missed The Daily Beast's Tina Brown.) Yesterday, Business Week 's Jon Fine took IAC's eminently quotable CEO Barry Diller through the paces . Diller must have felt right at home. The conference was held on the ground floor of his company's Frank Gehry-designed world headquarters opposite Chelsea Piers on New York's far west side (photo above... Read Full Story