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- IAC
- (1) InterApplication Communications The interprocess communications capability in the Macintosh starting with System 7.0. Many IAC events take place behind the scenes. For example, when you drag...
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- Google showdown: Can Barry Diller win IAC search advertising war?
- Push Google off its search advertising throne? Not so FAST! I said earlier this week.Barry Diller, King of the IAC search and advertising empire, does have royal designs of his own, nevertheless.CEO Diller has set in motion a series of initiatives within his integrated conglomerate of Web properties fueling an...
- Tags: Search Advertising, Search, Google Ads, Google, Advertising
- Blog posts 2007-05-03
- Push Google off its search advertising throne? Not so FAST!
- Another day, another company that claims to be the one that will dethrone $150 billion market cap, and “everyone’s favorite garage band,” Google from its search advertising kingdom.Who is the latest to put forth the would-be Google slayer, along with potential killer of perennial runner-up Yahoo and slow out of...
- Tags: Search Advertising, Search, ROI, Google Ads, AdWords, Advertising
- Blog posts 2007-04-30
- Can avatars and smileys boost Ask's search share?
- Can a Zwinky avatar, new smiley or fancy cursor increase the number of times people use the Ask search engine? Interactive Corp. CFO Tom McInerney hopes so. McInerney speaking at the JPMorgan Internet conference in New York City outlined Interactive...
- Tags: Tom McInerney, toolbar, IAC
- Blog posts 2007-03-12
- IAC, Dow Jones team for personal finance online community
- Barry Diller, CEO, IAC/Interactive, is fond of saying flagship search engine Ask.com is the “glue” for IAC’s integrated conglomerate of Internet properties, even though Ask.com CEO Jim Lanzone prefers to see himself as a head “chef.”(SEE Jim Lanzone’s vision for Ask.com: Exclusive Interview)Be it by “glue” or a “mixing of...
- Tags: team, Ask.com, finance, personal finance, IAC, Dow Jones & Company Inc., Barry Diller
- Blog posts 2007-03-11
- CitySearch bails out InsiderPages: What's the deal?
- IAC is taking the struggling InsiderPages local reviews site off of the hands of its founder Idealab and investors Sequoia capital and Softbank Capital.Bill Gross, Idealab CEO, at the Idealab homepage:We began Idealab with the dream of creating ground-breaking companies whose products and services would change the way people think,...
- Tags: Social Software, Search Advertising, Metrics, Social Media, Social Networking, Marketing, Social Web, Amateur Content, Yellow Pages, User-Generated Content, Google, Culture, Search, Advertising, Local, Web 2.0, Business Models
- Blog posts 2007-03-01
- IAC CEO Barry Diller on Ask.com
- A few weeks ago I asked Jim Lanzone, CEO, Ask.com, for his thoughts on Barry Diller, CEO of corporate parent IAC, considering Ask.com to be the “glue” for IAC’s “integrated conglomerate” of Web properties. SEE “Jim Lanzone’s vision for Ask.com: ‘Real Deal’ Interview”Lanzone told me he prefers to see himself...
- Tags: Business Models, Advertising, Search, Google, Google Software Applications, ROI, Metrics, Search Advertising, IAC, Barry Diller
- Blog posts 2007-02-07
- Pronto.com shopping search emerges in IAC: CEO Interview
- “Integrated conglomerate” InterActiveCorp IAC boasts its Pronto.com property is “the Webs most comprehensive comparison-shopping engine.”Developed in-house as an “emerging business,” Pronto.com leverages IAC’s retail and online advertising know-how and targets the estimated $300 billion ecommerce opportunity forecast for 2010.IAC is a highly acquisitive company; It built its “integrated conglomerate” via...
- Tags: Business Models, Search, ecommerce, ROI, Search Advertising, IAC, Pronto.com
- Blog posts 2007-01-22
- Ask has the mojo to double its search market share
- Ask is aiming to double its market share in the search and judging from AskX may just have the mojo to do so. On a conference call Dec. 19 Interactive Corp. IAC chief Barry Diller outlined the companys outlook for the year ahead. ...
- Tags: IAC, AskX, Barry Diller
- Blog posts 2006-12-21
- Ask is IAC's glue: AskCity to AskX to AskNews…
- Barry Diller underscored today “how difficult it is to operate twelve totally separate businesses that have commonality only in that they are interactive.”The CEO of IAC/InterActiveCorp. asserted to investors that IAC is up to the challenge and has the solution; Glue the businesses together, via Ask.com:Ask.com is the connector, the...
- Tags: ROI, Brands, Search, Advertising, Business Models, IAC, AskCity
- Blog posts 2006-12-19
- IAC local strategies: Citysearch vs. AskCity
- I asked the $31 billion question yesterday, “How do YOU find local info?”How about the $11 billion IAC market cap question: “Will you look for local info at Citysearch or AskCity?” In “IAC’s AskCity is hard to ask” I discuss the launch yesterday of what IAC CEO Barry Diller calls...
- Tags: IAC, CitySearch, AskCity, Marketing, Brands, Search, Advertising, Local, Business Models
- Blog posts 2006-12-05
- IAC's AskCity hard to ask
- The $31 billion local online search and classifieds market opportunity is not Google’s for the taking, I put forth yesterday in “Google: $31 billion local winner?” Barry Diller’s IAC/InterActiveCorp upped the local ante today with the launch of a new, locally-focused service within IAC’s Ask.com search engine. Fellow...
- Tags: IAC, CitySearch, AskCity, Local
- Blog posts 2006-12-04
- Ask.com's Trojan Horse--AskCity
- Ask.com isn’t suffering from an inferiority complex, despite being fourth in the search engine rankings. Company CEO Jim Lanzone told me that he expects to reach double digit growth for his search engine, which currently is less than 6 percent according to various measurement services. He pointed to the fact...
- Tags: AskCity, Jim Lanzone, Search, Web Technology, Personal Technology, General
- Blog posts 2006-12-03
- Does IAC dig Digg?
- Barry Diller, CEO of InterActiveCorp, is keen on news; Delivering it online, that is.Diller runs what he calls an "integrated conglomerate," an amalgam of Internet properties in diverse sectors, from retail to dating, and from entertainment to real estate.Diller has intimated of late that he seeks to add one more...
- Tags: Amateur Content, Print, Local, Media, Culture, Digg, Barry Diller, IAC
- Blog posts 2006-11-28
- Poll on Digg: Will Barry Diller buy Digg?
- In "Is Digg on Barry Diller’s IAC shopping list? Move over News Corp." I discuss how Michael Jackson, IAC/InterActiveCorp programming president, is honing in on online sites that “aggregate and edit news and help point people to the best information available,” as buyout candidates.Barry Diller, IAC Chairman & CEO, has allocated...
- Tags: Digg, IAC, Barry Diller
- Blog posts 2006-11-02
- Is Digg on Barry Diller's IAC shopping list? Move over News Corp.
- Barry Diller is on an IAC/InterActiveCorp mission. In reporting his company’s Q3 earnings today, the IAC Chairman and CEO said:We are unabashedly building an interactive conglomerate. We have three interrelated strategies: one, the growth of each of our businesses; two, Ask.com as the connecting thread; and three, all our cross...
- Tags: IAC, Barry Diller, Kara Nortman
- Blog posts 2006-10-31
Additional Resources
- Top US advertising carriers in May 2008
- Rank Property Visitors, 000 Reach % Total Internet : Total Audience 190,858 100.0 1 Platform-A 172,422 90% 2 Advertising.com 170,722 89% 3 Yahoo! Network 163,626 86% 4 Google Ad Network 158,514 83% 5 Specific Media 150,336 79%...
- Tags: Advertisement, Media, Carrier, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, NB
- Blog posts 2008-07-10
- The duopoly theory at work: Will Amazon and Google dominate the Internet?
- Will Amazon and Google be the two giants of the Internet? Sanford Bernstein analyst Jeffrey Lindsay seems to think so. In a research report previewed to Reuters, "U.S. Internet: The End of the Beginning," Lindsay concludes that Google and Amazon will be the top dogs on the...
- Tags: Google Inc., Theory, Amazon.com Inc., Internet, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-06-04
- 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
- News to know: Dell vs. Apple; Virtualization smackdown; Cisco patch; iCal; SAP
- Notable headlines: Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Could an OEM like Dell ever be as cool and as stylish as Apple? Next-generation Radeon GPUs to feature GDDR5 memory John Morris: Report: Nvidia GTX 200 series will be one big GPU EIC podcast: Microhoo; OLPC and...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Virtualization, Information Technology, SAP AG, Cell Phone, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Cisco Systems Inc., One Laptop Per Child Project, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-22
- Investing legends circle Yahoo; Does a breakup make sense?
- 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...
- Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Carl Icahn, Breakup, Financial Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-20
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