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On a conference call to discuss IAC's second-quarter earnings, Barry Diller, the web company's chairman, at times sounded like he was taking personal responsibility for the failure to turn Ask.com into a viable alternative to Google.

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...

E-commerce, social networking, on-demand: It seems like every year or two, the media and communications industry discovers some new concept that's going to make everyone boatloads of money by virtue of its sheer awesomeness. But the latest buzzword is anything but new. It's content. Yes, from...

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...