Barry Diller

                   

IAC's Diller: Big China Investments 'Fool's Game' (at SmartMoney.com)

yahoo.com     21-May-2008          

IAC's Diller: Big China Investments 'Fool's Game' |Published: May 21, 2008 12:33 PM Find this story interesting? Buzz it up on Yahoo! DOW JONES NEWSWIRES IAC/InterActiveCorp (IACI) is starting off small in China because "making big investments early in China is a fool's game," Chairman and Chief...                    

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Social ‘nets are nice but where’s the money?

reuters.com     21-May-2008          

Barry Diller likes social networks. He says they function as telephones used to: they help us communicate with each other. But one thing they don’t do is make money. Here’s what he told the Goldman Sachs Ninth Annual Internet Conference today in Vegas: In social networks, the only way you get...                    

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Barry Diller: Nope, Vimeo Isn't Close To Being A Business. But That's Cool (IACI)

softratty.com     21-May-2008          

Last fall Barry Diller cleaned house at Vimeo, the Web video startup that sprang out of IAC's Connected Ventures/College Humor, booting Jakob Lodwick and his lieutenant Jonathan Marcus. At the time, whisperers whispered that the sacking occured because a) the video sharing service wasn't going...                    

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New GM for IAC’s Secret Tina Brown Project

allthingsd.com     21-May-2008   3 related          

Okay, not that secret a project. BoomTown has known about it forever and Radar Online gave the lowdown about the creation of the hip-sounding news aggregator Web site--headed by high-profile editor Tina Brown--by Barry Diller's IAC in a report in early April. While still in its planning stages,...                    

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Paul Allen Does an Encore

es.wordpress.com     21-May-2008          

Last Friday, Microsoft Co-founder, Paul Allen was performing at the hottest party in Cannes---his own. But billionaire Paul Allen’s yearly yacht bash may have become an even hotter ticket.” An A-list of celebs, including Sean Penn, Natalie Portman, Brad Pitt, Edward Norton, Barry Diller, Salma...                    

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Diller’s IAC Gets GirlSense

redherring.com     20-May-2008   21 related          

IAC/InterActiveCorp. continued its pre-breakup shopping spree Tuesday in announcing the acquisition of StarNet Interactive, parent of the GirlSense.com virtual world. The deal will pair GirlSense, which lets girls create virtual fashion boutiques, with IAC properties like virtual world Zwinky and...                    

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Madonna's Bon Voyage (E! Online)

yahoo.com     20-May-2008   29 related          

E! Online - Is Madonna going to get swept away again?A source at the Cannes Film Festival says that famed wrap-dress fashion designer Diane Von Furstenberg is hosting an exclusive VIP luncheon tomorrow to toast the Cannes screening of I Am Because We Are, Madonna's documentary about Malawi AIDS...                    

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Media Conglomerates Roundup: IAC, Time Warner and Viacom (at Seeking Alpha)

yahoo.com     20-May-2008          

by: Sramana Mitra posted on: May 20, 2008 | about stocks: that are worth watching reported their Q1 earnings recently. The interactive conglomerate, IAC (Nasdaq: IACI) which operates more than 60 diversified brands, announced an increase in the revenues for the quarter by 7% over the year to $1.6...                    

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Investing legends circle Yahoo; Does a breakup make sense?

zdnet.com     20-May-2008   54 related          

The Microhoo saga has attracted a who's who list of investors to Yahoo in a big bet that Carl Icahn will force some sort of "shareholder value." The latest investing star to enter the Microhoo sweepstakes is T. Boone Pickens, a legendary oil investor, has bought 10 million shares for giggles....                    

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Barry Diller likes to play dress-up, too [Girlsense]

valleywag.com     20-May-2008          

Having reached 13 million girls with the chance to design glittery jpegs for each other, social site Girlsense has a new parent: InterActiveCorp. IAC already has teen virtual world Zwinky and its 6... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and...                    

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