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Microsoft's Bing may be the fastest-growing player in the search market, but IAC chairman Barry Diller doesn't seem to think much of its prospects. Diller told attendees of the Goldman Sachs Communacopia conference on Wednesday that he believes trying to beat Google at its own game, as Bing is...

Ben Silverman isn't any more gracious on the way out than he was on the way in. Hours after announcing his departure from NBC Universal, where he spent two undistinguished years as co-chief of entertainment, the former wunderkind talent agent was spinning hard, blaming his very public failure on...

Ben Silverman's disastrous tenure at NBC is finally, mercifully over. Two years after the Peacock Network hired him to revamp its entertainment programming, the supposed wunderkind is out, leaving to head up a new multimedia development venture backed by Barry Diller's IAC. But it didn't take him...