Barry Diller's InterActiveCorp aims to acquire top businesses in a bunch of markets, then get them to work together to build a winning suite of online brands. So many companies crash on the rocks trying to create synergies. How do IAC's leaders do it?READ»
Google's got tentacles everywhere--and it just grows and grows and grows. But here's a head-scratcher: News has surfaced that suggests Google's getting into the mortgage business. Specifically, the loan aggregation business. What ...READ»
For more than a decade, Diller has been on a multibillion-dollar shopping spree that created one of the Web's busiest networks. Now he has announced a plan to spin off HSN, Lending Tree, Interval, and Ticketmaster. If the ...READ»
Just the other day, new marketing materials for Mullen, the ad shop for brands like Orbitz, Lending Tree, and TJ Maxx, landed soberly on my desk: "Marketing in the new era of fiscal responsbility; Have we been on an adolescent ...READ»
When I first saw BlackWeb2.0 over two years ago I liked it and dropped its founder Angela Benton (pictured) a note. I've kept an eye on BlackWeb2.0 ever since.To say that the past decade has been tumultuous for Black media is an ...READ»
The abrupt shuttering of FiLife, a well-known personal finance destination backed by IAC and Dow Jones Interactive, has loosed speculation that the site was paying for clicks to reach its eye-popping 3.4 million monthly unique ...READ»
