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Expedia Moves to Capture European Market

Travel giant hopes half of revenue will come from abroad within 5-6 years

(Newser) - Citing saturation in US travel, Expedia will move aggressively to seize European market share, reports the Financial Times, with hopes that half its revenue will be international within 5 or 6 years . The travel giant hopes to move in while European competitors Thomas Cook and Tui Travel are distracted with their merger, then turn its attention to India next year. More »

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Diller's IAC to Split Into
Five Companies

HSN, Ticketmaster, Interval International, LendingTree spin off

(Newser) - Barry Diller's InterActiveCorp will split into five separately traded companies, their board announced today.  Former IAC components Home Shopping Network, Ticketmaster, vacation site Interval International, and online real estate site LendingTree will all become separate firms under those names. CNN Money reports that the remaining pieces of IAC will be search engine Ask.com, Citysearch, Evite, and Zwinky. More »

More about:  Barry Diller John Malone Liberty Media Ticketmaster Ask.com InterActiveCorp Expedia

Media Moguls' 'Marriage'
On the Rocks

Longtime partners Diller, Malone may be severing ties

(Newser) - The long and lucrative partnership between media giants John Malone and Barry Diller may be nearing its end, the Wall Street Journal reports. "We've been frustrated with each other at times," says Diller, whose IAC empire, backed by Malone's Liberty Media, includes the Home Shopping Network, Ticketmaster and Expedia. Lackluster business is raising tensions between the two and threatening their complex ties. More »

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