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Today's Fresh Blogs...| The Internet Sucks: New Huffington Post Humor Site Not "Ha Ha," Any Other Kind Of, Funny |
| Published: August 23, 2007, 11:40 am |
| Tags: Barry Diller, Genocide, Huffington Post, Lorne Michaels, Rachel Sklar, The Internet Sucks |
| For whatever reason, 23/6, the long-gestating humor blog collaboration between Barry Diller's IAC and The Huffington Post, has gone live on the HuffPo website. (The 23/6 domain itself remains... |
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| Breaking Up The Band: CollegeHumor Founder Hits The Road |
| Published: September 10, 2007, 4:30 pm |
| Tags: Barry Diller, Breaking Up The Band, College Humor, Kids Today, Ricky Van Veen, Things About Barry Diller That Not True As Far As We Know, Zack Klein |
| The adorable scamps of CollegeHumor haven't let The Man break their spirit: They're still living the life of hard-partying sophomores, even though they've got jillions of dollars and ostensibly real... |
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| Never Forget: "Leisure Wear Is One Of The Great Evils Of Our Times" |
| Published: September 17, 2007, 10:20 am |
| Tags: Barry Diller, Cathy Horyn, Evils Of Our Time, Harvey Weinstein, Lynn Hirschberg, Never Forget, Straight Men, The Straights |
| Lynn Hirschberg unloads in this weekend's Times' T mag on how all the moguls dress terribly nowadays; she lumps in the sometimes-bad dresser Barry Diller with the frequent offender Harvey Weinstein.... |
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| Acquisitions: Barry Diller camps on GarageGames |
| Published: September 18, 2007, 2:59 pm |
| Tags: Acquisitions, Barry Diller, Garagegames, Iac, Videogames |
| company to your portfolio? Diller, the CEO of holding company IAC/InterActiveCorp, is focusing his energies on the videogame sector now. By acquiring a majority stake in GarageGames, which does everything from development tools and game creation to indie game publishing, Diller hopes to complement the yet-to-be launched InstantAction.com. But |
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| Barry Diller Goes With the Motion of the Ocean |
| Published: September 21, 2007, 2:00 pm |
| Tags: White Men Money, Barry Diller, Lloyd Grove |
| the Boat.Photo:Getty Images Barry Diller is like Madonna — he changes his shtick often and always comes out just a little bit ahead of the Zeitgeist. Fortunately, it appears from his interview with Lloyd Grove on Portfolio's Website that he does not seem to be planning an H&M line for anytime soon. Rather, he’s become an Internet |
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| Socrates Was A Big Pussy |
| Published: September 21, 2007, 3:00 pm |
| Tags: Defamer Hollywood, Barry Diller, Stacey Snider, Tbrief, Universal |
| mogul Barry Diller gets defensive when interrogated about having once made former Universal head Stacey Snider cry. Accusations of manipulative drama queen antics follow! "Oh please! Stacey Snider cries for effect in whatever room she might be in. I mean, I didn't make Stacey Snider cry! Stacey Snider wanted to cry for her own |
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| Search: Barry Diller's IAC/InterActive Corp. launched ... |
| Published: October 1, 2007, 5:33 pm |
| Tags: Ask Com, Barry Diller, Iac, Search |
| Diller's IAC/InterActive Corp. launched a revamped iWon.com portal. The search engine, acquired along with Ask.com, has always drawn visitors by offering prizes. But it now promises more prizes, a social network and a more explicit link to IAC's Ask.com search engine. I, for one, am excited to have the opportunity to never visit the new site |
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| Search: Google in control of Ask.com, not Diller |
| Published: October 9, 2007, 6:20 pm |
| Tags: Ask Com, Barry Diller, Google, Iac, Microsoft, Search, Yahoo |
| deal with Google, Barry Diller's Ask.com is facing bigger issues than the company's painfully unmemorable advertising. The IAC-owned search engine is dependent on Google-brokered text ads for a large portion of its revenues -- but Google, which now sells ads on MySpace, among others, is not nearly as dependent on Ask.com. Fortunately |
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| Music: Madonna dumps record companies, signs with concert promoter |
| Published: October 11, 2007, 1:32 pm |
| Tags: Barry Diller, Iac, Live Nation, Madonna, Music, Music, Radiohead, Ticketmaster, Warner |
| bid, Warner got Barry Diller's IAC/InterActiveCorp involved. IAC owns Ticketmaster, whose ticketing deal with Live Nation expired in August. Even so, the money was too much for Madonna to refuse. Under the new deal, Madonna will collect $120 million over 10 years plus 90 percent of tour revenue. Madonna's albums will still be |
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| Richard Gere's Sell-Buy Conundrum |
| Published: October 17, 2007, 10:37 am |
| Tags: Gossipmonger, Al Pacino, Anderson Cooper, Barry Diller, Ben Kingsley, Bobby Cannavale, Britney Spears, Conan O Brien, Ellen Degeneres, Francis Ford Coppolla, Harold Ford, Henry Kissinger, Hillary Clinton, Ivana Trump, Ivanka Trump, Jack Nicholson, Jonathan Tisch, Julian S |
| Michael Eisner, and Barry Diller were among the power players who ate at Michael's for lunch yesterday. Some designers are refusing to use the Earth Pledge's ecofriendly "Sea Leather" because it's actually made out of dead fish skin. Ivana Trump's new engagement ring, from daughter Ivanka's jewelry line, costs $250,000. Anderson Cooper |
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| New Media Propaganda: Barry Diller HQ Full Of Fist-Pumping Young Brand Enthusiasts! |
| Published: October 17, 2007, 2:25 pm |
| Tags: Barry Diller, Clips, College Humor, Count The Black People, Iac, New Media Propaganda, Ricky Van Veen, Top, Valleywag |
| newVideoPlayer("IAC.flv", 475, 376); They said Barry Diller was out of his mind! And yet, according to this in-house promotional video that we've obtained, his company, IAC, has a giant Frank... |
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| IAC does not get what it was looking for [Earnings] |
| Published: October 31, 2007, 1:27 pm |
| Tags: Ask Com, Barry Diller, Earnings, Iac, The Algorithm |
| IAC, Barry Diller's online conglomerate, reported $1.5 billion in third-quarter revenues, a 7 percent increase over year prior. Profits, however, decreased 4.2 percent year-over-year, from $74.9 million to $71.8 million. IAC's media and advertising division, which includes Ask.com, grew its revenues to $189.8 million, 40 percent growth over the |
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| Roberto Cavalli Dresses J.Lo's Expanding Bump [Rag Trade] |
| Published: October 31, 2007, 10:30 am |
| Tags: Anne Slowey, Barry Diller, Diane Von Furstenberg, Elle, Elle Accessories, Frostfrench, Gilles Bensimon, Gisele Bundchen, Harper S Bazaar, Hugo Chavez, Jennifer Lopez, Jude Law, Kate Moss, Kelly Killoren Bensimon, Li Claiborne, Naomi Campbell, Rag Trade, Roberto Cavalli |
| Designer Roberto Cavalli has never been known for subtlety. On working with celebrity clientele: "Well Jennifer Lopez, at this moment, she requests something very special because she is waiting for... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] |
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| Ticketmaster's history of getting bought and sold [Deals] |
| Published: November 5, 2007, 11:25 am |
| Tags: Barry Diller, Deals, Iac, Ticketmaster |
| IAC will be the seventh time Barry Diller has bought or sold a piece of the online-ticketing agency, starting from the first stake he acquired in it a decade ago. After the jump, a chronology of Diller's Ticketmaster deals.July 1997 Diller's company acquires 50 percent of Ticketmaster Group, from Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen May 1998 Acquires |
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| Barry Diller's empire to break into tiny little bits [Iac] |
| Published: November 5, 2007, 10:58 am |
| Tags: Barry Diller, Deals, Iac, Jakob Lodwick, John Malone |
| the squeeze on his old buddy Barry Diller, who runs IAC. So what does Diller do? Break his search and e-commerce conglomerate into five parts. Diller's sticking with the new IAC, which will mostly consist of the Ask.com search engine -- oh, and Jakob Lodwick, too. HSN, Ticketmaster, LendingTree, and Interval International are getting spun off. We |
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