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IAC stories: 7 news summaries

More Advertisers Text to (Willing) Customers

Media companies jumping on board as ads have higher success rate than Web versions

May 27, 08 3:27 PM CDT
(Newser) - Text-message advertisements are catching on with marketers, largely because consumers actually ask to receive them—or at least to receive content that ads are attached to, the Wall Street Journal reports. Coors Light, for example, added marketing blurbs to text alerts requested by fans during last month's NFL draft, of... More »

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Yahoo • advertising • marketing • NBC Universal • text message • mobile advertising • IAC • Gannett • 4INFO

MARKETS

 Stocks Rise on Deals, Lower Oil  

Merger buzz bets weak economic data

May 15, 08 3:24 PM CDT
(Newser) - Stocks rose for the fourth consecutive day today as deal-making buzz from Internet firms and a Tiffany’s-led retail rally offset a rise in weekly jobless claims and contraction in New York- and Philadelphia-region manufacturing, MarketWatch reports. The Dow rose 94.28, closing at 12,992.66, while the S&... More »

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CBS • Dow Jones • Nasdaq • Tiffany's • IAC • S&P 500 • CNET

Diller's Trials Far From Over After IAC Verdict

Efforts to break up the company face major stumbling blocks

Mar 31, 08 10:19 AM CDT
(Newser) - Barry Diller might have won control over e-commerce company IAC/InterActiveCorp from rival John Malone in court Friday, but the CEO’s real trials have just begun. With the economy tanking and credit markets tightening, Diller’s plan to break up IAC into five “baby Barrys”—including Ticketmaster and... More »

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Ticketmaster • John Malone • Barry Diller • Liberty Media • IAC • LendingTree • Home Shopping Network • Interval International

Moguls Take Feud to Court

Diller, Malone share knack for deal-making—and turn it on each other

Feb 4, 08 1:45 PM CST
(Newser) - The escalating fight between media barons Barry Diller and John Malone over control of IAC/Interactive Corp. has its origins in the men’s shared talent for wheeling and dealing, the New York Times reports in a portrait of the colorful, headstrong, vastly different moguls. Both have faced accusations of... More »

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corporate governance • John Malone • Barry Diller • Liberty Media • IAC

Liberty Tries to Force Diller Off IAC Board

Clash of media titans continues with
latest court action

Jan 29, 08 2:35 AM CST
(Newser) - The feud between media magnates John Malone and Barry Diller has stepped up a level, reports the Wall Street Journal. Malone's Liberty Media Corp. is taking legal action to boot   chairman Diller, his wife and seven others off the board of Internet conglomerate IAC/Interactive Corp. Malone and Diller worked... More »

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John Malone • Barry Diller • Liberty Media • IAC • Diane Von Furstenberg

IAC and Liberty Lock Horns in Legal Battle

Fight over spinoffs that would reduce Liberty's control over IAC assets

Jan 25, 08 10:50 AM CST
(Newser) - Media moguls Barry Diller and his onetime backer, John Malone, have gone head to head,  with each man’s corporation suing the other’s. Diller’s IAC/InterActiveCorp and Malone’s Liberty Media, which owns a majority voting stake in IAC, are at odds over an IAC restructuring plan that... More »

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John Malone • Barry Diller • Liberty Media • IAC

Ticketmaster Pays $265M for Online Scalper

Purchase signals major shift in resellers' business model

Jan 15, 08 2:05 PM CST
(Newser) - Fans who once turned to scalpers for last-minute seats can now hit up ... Ticketmaster? In a sure sign of the online ticket resale boom, the sports and entertainment behemoth will buy TicketsNow, the second-largest online ticket reseller, reports the Wall Street Journal. "Clients who five years ago were not... More »

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Ticketmaster • StubHub • scalpers • IAC • TicketsNow • ticket resellers

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