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Computers, General news, Media, Internet, Finance

Ask.com Sale: Upside for Microsoft, IAC

Financial analysts and search engine marketing industry execs see financial benefit in prospect of a Microsoft-Ask.com deal.
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IAC: No Offers for Ask.com

Despite recent weakness, there's ‘no desire to sell off search business,’ Diller says; cash headed back to shareholders.
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IAC Trading Split Begins Tuesday

Barry Diller’s conglomerate, which includes Ask.com, Match.com and Ticketmaster, to dissolve in 5-way spin-off.
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Diller’s IAC Beats Street, But Profit Slips

HSN and mortgage unit Tree.com take charges; no spending spree with $1.3B, Diller says.
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Archives, General news, Media, Internet, Finance

Diller’s IAC Beats Street, But Profit Slips

Restructuring charges tied to pending breakup and mortgage-unit woes eat into results.
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Archives, General news, Media, Internet, Finance

Diller’s IAC Gets GirlSense

Fashion-themed virtual world for girls joins Zwinky, Webfetti and newly acquired Lexico in Internet stable before spinoff.
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Archives, Computers, General news, Media, Communications, Internet, Finance

Diller: IAC Stock Swap with Liberty ‘Unlikely’

No trade in shares seen for a clean divorce with John Malone’s media company.
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Judge Stalls IAC Breakup Plan

Restrictions in place until March trial on control of the company and fate of CEO Barry Diller, report says.
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Amid Fight for Control, IAC Reshuffles M&A Unit

Parent of Ask.com, Ticketmaster, LendingTree, and HSN flattens structure in advance of planned breakup.
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Archives, General news, Media, Internet, Finance

IAC: Malone's 'Desperate Sideshow' Will Fail

Diller slams Liberty Media's bid to oust him, as media moguls clash over terms of a plan to split company into five pieces. See also: Diller's Online Empire
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Internet, Finance

hakia Searches and Scores $5M

Natural language search engine hakia claims to provide more accurate results than Google. But analysts say the startup has a ways to go.
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General news, Internet

Ask.com Helps Erase that Search Query Trail

The search site is launching a feature that allows people to delete data on their search queries in an effort to bolster personal privacy while surfing the Internet.
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Internet

Salve for Sick Searches

Ask.com launches Health Smart Answers, which aims to aggregate health information online and become the authoritative source for medical problems large and small.
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Internet

Report: Yahoo Bests Google

Users find search’s second banana more appealing for overall services, according to University of Michigan consumer survey. AOL ranks slightly above IRS.
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Internet

Search Ads Displace Yellow Pages

Analyst says Yahoo’s Panama will boost online local search ad market’s advantage over print.
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Internet

IAC Takes 85 Percent Hit

Media conglomerate takes hefty charge, but revenue rose 8 percent.
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A New Answer for Ask.com?

IAC/Interactive previews AJAX-powered search site, hopes to gain ground on Google, Yahoo.
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Internet

Diller Moves into News

Barry Diller says his company, IAC/InterActiveCorp, will expand its reach into online news.
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Internet

Google Hurdles $500

Search king’s stock passed high-water mark as it captures 45.4 percent of the search market.
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Internet

Lycos Gets Power from Ask.com

Search engines vie to provide their features everywhere—even on each other’s sites.
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