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Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Wed 07 May 2008 03:37 PM PST
It looks like the clock has run out on Liberty if it wants to appeal the ruling it lost to IAC: according to IAC’s (NSDQ: IACI) just-filed 10-q, the appeal…
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Wed 30 Apr 2008 08:15 AM PST
With IAC (NSDQ: IACI) having defeated Liberty in court, CEO Barry Diller’s spin plan can go through as planned. As such, said Diller: “What we’re not discussing is a so-called…
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Wed 30 Apr 2008 04:42 AM PST
In its first report since a Delaware court win affirming chairman and CEO Barry Diller’s authority, IAC (NSDQ: IACI) announced Q1 revenue of $1.6 billion an 8 percent increase from…
Posted By David Kaplan - Wed 16 Apr 2008 05:44 AM PST
The HealthCentral Network has unveiled the ad network targeted at pharmaceuticals and wellness marketers that was in the works when IAC (NSDQ: IACI) bought an estimated $50 million minority stake…
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Thu 10 Apr 2008 02:43 PM PST
You could almost see this one coming: IAC (NSDQ: IACI) is prepping a fresh entrant into the crowded “how-to” space, as part of its strategy to incubate a string of…
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Wed 09 Apr 2008 08:16 PM PST
RushmoreDrive, the black-oriented search, news and jobs site incubated inside IAC (NSDQ: IACI), makes its debut to the world tomorrow. Tonight, the new site was feted at a stylish event…
Posted By David Kaplan - Wed 02 Apr 2008 01:44 PM PST
Former New Yorker and Vanity Fair editor Tina Brown is teaming with Barry Diller on the creation of a non-partisan news aggregation site, Radar reports. Edward Felsenthal, the former deputy…
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Mon 31 Mar 2008 05:11 AM PST
Congrats on the court win, now about that share price. During the trial, Liberty Media (NSDQ: LINTA) lawyer Kevin Abrams badgered Barry Diller about the company’s poor performance, but the…
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Fri 28 Mar 2008 02:56 PM PST
Delaware Chancery Court Judge Stephen Lamb delivered a 79-page memorandum opinion and order late Friday afternoon in favor of Barry Diller and IAC (NSDQ: IACI) in a complex legal dispute…
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Fri 28 Mar 2008 02:26 PM PST
A Delaware chancery court judge has ruled in favor of Barry Diller and his rights to vote Liberty Media’s (NSDQ: LINTA) proxy on IAC’s (NSDQ: IACI) proposed spinoff—a defeat for…
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Fri 28 Mar 2008 02:25 PM PST
A Delaware chancery court judge has ruled in favor of Barry Diller, allowing him to keep his voting rights for Liberty Media’s (NSDQ: LINTA) proxy on IAC’s (NSDQ: IACI) proposed…
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Fri 14 Mar 2008 05:28 PM PST
Via a special arrangement with CourtroomLive ... a small taste of Barry Diller’s testimony this week in Liberty Media (NSDQ: LINTA) v. IAC (NSDQ: IACI) in Delaware Chancery Court. These…
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Fri 14 Mar 2008 07:22 AM PST
Note: We’ll be posting video clips this afternoon. The morning session of Liberty Media (NSDQ: LINTA) v. IAC (NSDQ: IACI) in Delaware Chancery Court is in progress and we’re in…
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Thu 13 Mar 2008 01:08 PM PST
From the Liberty Media-IAC (NSDQ: IACI) trial ... Liberty attorney Kevin Abrams asked Barry Diller if, as a sailor, he understood what it meant when the Wall Street Journal published…
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Thu 13 Mar 2008 12:39 PM PST
Picking up from Liberty Media-IAC: Diller On The Stand Back at the Liberty Media-IAC (NSDQ: IACI) trial after recess and the questions are fast and furious about Barry Diller’s reactions…
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Thu 13 Mar 2008 10:48 AM PST
Not trying for a transcript here by any means .. Barry Diller is on the stand in Delaware Chancery Court under direct examination following the lunch recess in the Liberty…
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Thu 13 Mar 2008 08:07 AM PST
Barry Diller is expected to testify today in the Liberty Media-IAC (NSDQ: IACI) Delaware Chancery Court trial that could decide his fate as chairman and CEO of IAC, the company…
Posted By Rafat Ali - Mon 10 Mar 2008 01:31 PM PST
If Barry Diller was hoping to mollify his troops on today’s hearing with the memo, well, the hearing itself has started off testy. Liberty Media (NSDQ: LINTA) Chairman John Malone…
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Sun 09 Mar 2008 09:29 PM PST
Unless you’re an employee of IAC (NSDQ: IACI), you’re probably reading this here first ... we’ve obtained an emailed memo from IAC chairman and CEO Barry Diller to his staff…
Posted By Rafat Ali - Thu 06 Mar 2008 03:43 PM PST
Strange are the motivations of Ask: First it clearly states that it will now focus on its core audience of married women, and now it says that’s not necessarily going…
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 05 Mar 2008 12:09 AM PST
Barry Diller, always in the throes of self-confession, did that earlier today at a Variety-hosted event: he said that by this time next week, depending on how Delaware court rules…
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Tue 04 Mar 2008 11:58 AM PST
IAC-owned search engine Ask.com is planning to lay off 40 workers or 8 percent of its total workforce, CEO Jim Safka tells Reuters. That’s below the 100-or-so we reported on…
Posted By Rafat Ali - Mon 03 Mar 2008 05:32 PM PST
The world’s going crazy with 10-K’s...and we’re making it easy for you. Our motto, just in case you didn’t know: We kill ourselves, so you don’t have to. Some of…
Posted By Rafat Ali - Sat 01 Mar 2008 02:11 PM PST
That’s a biggish number for IAC (NSDQ: IACI), currently in the throes of a split, and major layoffs from the Ask.com side of the business. Its quasi-professional 3-D gaming site…
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Fri 29 Feb 2008 12:17 PM PST
A source has confirmed to us a coming shakeup at IAC-owned Ask.com that includes about 100 layoffs in the April time frame. SAI reported this morning that the site may…
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