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Is Barry Diller delusional?

Are Barry and Rupert Delusional?The market will decide. They should quit talking about it and put up a product and see if they make money. Money talks and suckers walk.Value is the driving forcePeople will pay for a service if it has any real value. If that...

Tags: Network technology, Barry Diller, Diller, Barry

Discussion threads 2009-09-29

Diller predicts more convergence in search

Media mogul says Google can be overtakenAt the Web 2.0 conference in San Francisco, InterActiveCorp CEO Barry Diller explains to host John Battelle why his company acquired Ask Jeeves in March and what he thinks about Google's lead in Internet search.

Tags: Web 2.0, Diller

Videos 2005-10-06

Diller touts original Web programming

Diller touts original Web programmingMore to the point"He said that he liked Ask Jeeves because it could offer services different from those of rivals, including No. 1 Google, No. 2 Yahoo and No. 3 MSN. He did not specify how he planned to overtake the leaders in search, but he...

Tags: Blogging, Web, Diller, IAC/InterActive Corp., Web programming, blog

Discussion threads 2005-10-06

Diller asks $2 billion for Ask Jeeves

Diller asks $2 billion for Ask Jeeves2 billion? Someone's go an inflated self-imageSeriously, though. Ask Jeeves was never much more than a mediocre search engine. Heck, Yahoo! provided better results than Jeeves.2 billion for it is just ridiculousI Agree2 billion is outrageous for Ask Jeeves which, like the...

Tags: IPO, Financial Planning, Ask Jeeves Inc., Diller

Discussion threads 2005-03-21

Additional Resources

News to know: Win7, Google Wave, Palm WebOS, Apple Tablet, Google Docs

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft's message to IT pros: Meet us half way with Windows 7 Larry Dignan: ...

Tags: Tom Foremski, Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Google Docs, Palm Inc., Andrew Nusca, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Matthew Miller, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Tablets, Sales Strategy, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Sales, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-09-30

Is Barry Diller delusional?

Here's chapter 120 of Barry Diller's "people will and should pay for online content" tour. But I have a nagging question: Why exactly are we still listening to Diller? First, here's the video of Diller rapping with Katie Couric. The refrain sounds familiar: Pay for online content...

Tags: IAC/InterActive Corp., Channel Management, Corporate Communications, Financial Accounting, Marketing, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-09-29

News to know: VMWare; Facebook acquires Friendfeed; Facebook Search; MS Office;

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Larry Dignan: VMware goes shopping: Buys SpringSource for $420 million; Can it keep the open source mojo? Joe McKendrick: Panel: too...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Facebook, Larry Dignan, Mobile, Microsoft Office, VMware Inc., Microsoft Corp., Virtualization, Smart Phones, Cloud Computing, Advertising & Promotion, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Marketing, Storage

Blog posts 2009-08-11

News to know: AOL; Microsoft; Apple; SAP; Google

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Larry Dignan: Time Warner preps for AOL spin-off; Google's 5% stake worth $283 million Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft: European...

Tags: Google Inc., Larry Dignan, America Online Inc., SAP AG, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Tablets, Notebooks, Palm Pre, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets

Blog posts 2009-07-28

The Cost of the Free Internet

The outpouring of interest in and passionate argument about IAC chairman Barry Diller’s declaration last week that the delivery of content over the Internet ‘absolutely’ will become a ‘paid system’ was instructive. First, it shows the power of the “free” Internet, as it is currently constructed. A...

Tags: Payment, Video, Cable, Programming, Internet, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2009-06-16

News to know: Palm CEO; Barry Diller; iPhone upgrade; Iomega; MS Money

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Larry Dignan: Palm injects Apple DNA: Colligan out as CEO; Rubinstein in Tom Steinert-Threlkeld: Barry Diller: The Internet 'Absolutely'...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Larry Dignan, Iomega Corp., Palm Inc., Mary Jo Foley, Microsoft Corp., Sam Diaz, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Hardware

Blog posts 2009-06-11

Barry Diller: The Internet ???Absolutely??? Will Become a ???Paid System.??? Time Projection: Within 5 Years

Barry Diller: The Internet ???Absolutely??? Will Become a ???Paid System.??? Time Projection: Within 5 YearsNews Flash: It has ALWAYS been a PAID systemSaying it will become a paid system in 5 years is basically living in a delusional bubble. It has been a paid system from the start.Everyone pays for...

Tags: Internet, pay model

Discussion threads 2009-06-10

Barry Diller: The Internet 'Absolutely' Will Become a 'Paid System'. Time Projection: Within 5 Years

The days of the free Internet will draw to a close over the next five years, according to the chairman and chief executive of IAC, the interactive services company which operates a collection of more than 30 Internet sites which produce $1.5 billion a year in revenue. ...

Tags: Billing, IAC/InterActive Corp., Billing System, Internet, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2009-06-10

Tweet This: IAC Might Be Interested in AOL (Says Barry Diller)

Well, maybe the founders of Twitter and the CEO of Yahoo aren’t interested in acquiring AOL. But IAC chairman Barry Diller might be. The Time Warner online service, which is openly for sale, still is a “tremendously valuable property,’’ Diller...

Tags: IAC/InterActive Corp., America Online Inc., Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Advertising & Promotion, Financial Accounting, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Marketing, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2009-06-10

IAC in talks to buy Yahoo Personals

IAC/InterActive Corp. chief Barry Diller said the company is in talks to buy Yahoo Personals to augment its Match.com business.  The comments were made on IAC's first quarter conference call Techmeme. Here's what Diller said: We are very interested. We'd love to have Yahoo! Personals and...

Tags: IAC/InterActive Corp., Yahoo! Inc., Asset Management, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-04-30

IAC misses analyst views; Ask.com unit revenue sinks 19%

Internet services company InterActiveCorp said Tuesday that the company swung to a profit in the fourth quarter of 2008, bolstered by the sale of a 30 percent stake in a Japanese TV shopping company. On the other hand, IAC was not "recession-proof," and...

Tags: Revenue, Web, IAC/InterActive Corp., Ask.com, Web Site Development, Channel Management, Operational Accounting, Web Technology, Internet, Marketing, Finance, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-02-03

Julius Genachowski & The FCC: A Failure to Communicate?

So Julius Genachowski is to be Barack Obama's choice to head the Federal Communications Commission. Genachowski and president-elect Obama were classmates at the Harvard Law School. And Obama was his boss back then, too, at the Harvard Law Review. GigaOm...

Tags: FCC, Barack Obama, Broadband, Ticketmaster Corp., Interactive Corp., Wireless, Federal Government, Internet, Broadband Internet, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Wireless And Mobility, Government, Networking, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2009-01-13

Obama to tap Genachowski as FCC chief

President-elect Barack Obama reportedly is set to name Julius Genachowski the chief of the Federal Communications Commission. Citing sources, the Wall Street Journal reported that Genachowski, Obama's technology adviser, would be nominated for the FCC slot. The Journal writes: Genachowski served as the...

Tags: FCC, Barack Obama, Journal, Federal Government, Government, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-01-13

Poll on Digg: Will Barry Diller buy Digg?

Poll on Digg: Will Barry Diller buy Digg?China Real Estate SiteBarry Diller's IAC should consider expanding into China and Hong Kong like Newscorp did in the internet space.A great acquisition candidate for online real estate in china is one i found that is getting serious traction.www.PropGO.com PropGO.com is the only...

Tags: Real estate, Digg, Barry Diller

Discussion threads 2008-12-03

Searching by color to nibble away at Google.

I have to admit that I raised an eyebrow when I read the L.A. Times piece about "Black Google." No, it wasn't talking about the color of the screen (though I have written about a black screen search engine being green.) Instead, it was talking about the racial color of...

Tags: Google Inc., Search Engine, Times, Search, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-08-18

News to know: Apple patches; D6 coverage; Yahoo; Google I/O

Notable headlines: Ryan Naraine: Mac OS X Leopard mega-patch plugs 41 security holes Jason O'Grady: Apple releases Mac OS 10.5.3 software update Apple: About the Mac OS X 10.5.3 Update Google: Mac OS X 10.5.3: sync Google Contacts Psystar offering new...

Tags: Google Inc., Apple Macintosh, Yahoo! Inc., Dana Blankenhorn, I/O, Patch Management, Apple Inc., Apple Mac OS, Apple Mac OS X, Operating Systems, Desktops, Software, Hardware, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-05-29