Comments on: Diller Wins Break-Up Battle In Court

By: madrid

madrid — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 14:33:48 +0000

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By: Ask.com Parent IAC Will Break Up | Searchviews - Daily insights on Search Marketing, Social Media and SEO by Reprise Media.

Mon, 31 Mar 2008 21:36:38 +0000

[...] on Friday: The parent of Ask.com will break up its conglomerate into five branches. According to TechCrunch, the new companies will be the Home Shopping Network, Ticketmaster, Lending Tree, Interval [...]

By: dale boyce

dale boyce — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 19:52:35 +0000

i am suprised it has taken this long. Ask is a lost cause unless it figure out what it want to do.

By: diystartupnews.com

diystartupnews.com — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 19:04:21 +0000

Interesting you don’t garagegames in crunchbase, They are making a casual gaming play with instantaction which puts the torgue engine in the browser which is pretty neat.

By: Nadir

Nadir — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 17:38:28 +0000

A new interview with Ticketmaster’s CEO is on cnbc.com at http://www.cnbc...1355&play=1

By: etavitom

etavitom — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 17:37:39 +0000

The way it should be. Live Nation is making some major moves, like just signing u2.

By: anon

anon — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 17:28:29 +0000

malone was opposed (hence court fight) because it diluted his voting rights. diller may have some interest in restructuring because of this.

By: Trivia Game Download

Trivia Game Download — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 17:19:28 +0000

Yes, just too many unrelated businesses. Would make more sense to sell off the ones that are not 100% Web related.

By: Tim

Tim — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 16:48:42 +0000

I expect this has very little to do with enabling the individual companies to compete. They’re already operated in a completely de-centralized fashion.

My guess is that it’s intended to give new-IAC (Ask, Zwinky, etc) a much better growth story. This will yield a better earnings multiple, which will allow them to do deals with their stock. Despite the lip service(and occasional meddling), Diller and the IAC corporate team care a lot more about M&A & the next new thing than in running an Internet company.

By: William

William — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 16:42:39 +0000

TicketsNow lost badly to StubHub and was shopping itself around. They appear weaker than even the rest of the IAC properties. How does buying them help?

By: jenkins

jenkins — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 16:41:03 +0000

Mr. Diller hasn’t created a penny of shareholder value in many years. The icon is in danger of tarnishing his reputation — something he’d hate to do so close to the end of his career.

By: Draqos

Draqos — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 16:36:47 +0000

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By: rons dixon

rons dixon — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 16:33:37 +0000

Hey Erick, can you get some more info on this Answerology Acquired by Hearst Magazines

By: Yakov

Yakov — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 16:28:37 +0000

If splitted, they would get lost. They would rather leverage their downstream traffic across network sites

By: SearcH◆ EngineS WEB

SearcH◆ EngineS WEB — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 16:17:53 +0000

Would anyone care to wager that ASK will be sold?

This is the first step towards allowing it to be acquired.

Will it be Yahoo or Google or MySpace??????

It is a very good search engine – it just has to compete with GIANTS!