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...Revenue jumped 11 per cent last year to $897m, while the media and search businesses saw falling sales and ecommerce grew only 3 per cent....
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...Quartz sale talks Atlantic Media has held talks with a number of potential buyers interested in digital media about a sale of or potential investment in Quartz, the publishing group’s business news site,...
...Match is expected to trade at a high premium to its parent company IAC, whose other media and search properties are struggling to grow....
...IAC took a $66.6m writedown on its investment and by November, Aereo had filed for bankruptcy protection....
...(FT) Journalism v Silicon Valley The media has lost control of production and distribution to the opaque algorithms of Google and Facebook....
...A sign at the entrance directing visitors to the “Apple v Samsung” case should also say “Samsung v Apple”, one lawyer suggested....
...But perhaps he is at the perfect company for him, as IAC is a rather unusual media business....
...More than a decade after the founder of the Fox broadcast network began investing in the e-commerce and online media companies that became IAC, this week he split his sprawling empire to start again....
...For nearly two decades, John Malone, chairman of Liberty Media, and Barry Diller, chief executive of IAC/Interactive, have been joined in a corporate marriage, and a fairly profitable one....
...Barry Diller, chief executive of IAC, which owns brands including Ticketmaster and Ask.com, gave voice to the wider mood at a conference last week in New York, suggesting that the tide was turning against...
...Ask Jeeves, the search engine recently purchased for $1.8bn, will also fall under the IAC umbrella when the deal closes later this month....
...Shareholders of IAC/InterActiveCorp, the internet conglomerate headed by media mogul Barry Diller, will meet on Tuesday in New York to vote on the planned spin-off of Expedia, the largest US travel website...
...It will tend, over time, to pull the IAC assets together because it is a global search engine,? Mr Diller said....
...Mr Malone, chairman and chief executive of Liberty Media, went a step further on Wednesday by predicting that online search engines such as Google or Yahoo would pose a significant challenge to TV broadcasters...
...He is currently program chair for the Web 2.0 conference, a columnist for Business 2.0, and the founder, chairman, and publisher of Federated Media Publishing, Inc....
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