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The Daily Beast has named publishing vet Stephen Colvin as the site’s president. Colvin CNET was president and CEO of lad mag purveyor Dennis Publishing for 11 years, will overs (Read More)
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Notional wants to be taken seriously. That might be a little tough ordinarily for a new cross-platform video production company birthed by a website called CollegeHumor but Noti (Read More)
Valleywag:
Ricky Van Veen announced the production schedule for his brand-new TV studio, and it would appear the CollegeHumor founder believes the future of the small screen lies in the past, because he's unleashing a mess of game shows (Read More)
Silicon Alley Insider:
A big deal for John Malone:Read the rest of this story »See Also:Liberty Media CEO: IAC Is A Big Pile Of Cash, And That's It (LINTA, IACI)Malone Tightens Grip On DirecTV With Liberty Merger (DTV, LINTA)Why Liberty Likes Siriu (Read More)
Silicon Alley Insider:
Greg Maffei, the President and CEO of Liberty Media on Barry Diller's Interactive Corp. (IACI):“The company is largely a pile of cash today. Some of its businesses are performing okay, but many are under-performing. It’s just (Read More)
24/7 Wall St.:
It is usually questionable if Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) and its new Bing.com search engine is stealing from Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) or from Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) when it comes to gains in the share of internet se (Read More)
TechCrunch:
In major metropolitan areas, the BlackBerry at lunchtime is a force to be reckoned with. And now it can be a device to help those urbanities actually find a place to eat with the launch of Urbanspoon for BlackBerry.Urbanspoon (Read More)
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Joey Levin moves from corporate M&A and finance to CEO of Mindspark Interactive Network, the IAC collection of “fun web products” like Zwinky, succeeding John Park, who wants a (Read More)
Silicon Alley Insider:
IAC's new M&A boss is company vet Shana Fisher.The top dealmaker post at IAC had been split between Shana and Joey Levin -- Joey doing the financial side, Shana doing the strategic.Read the rest of this story »See Also:Top NB (Read More)
Submitted by mogston
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Launched in 2006 by IAC and headquartered in New York, NY, Pronto.com is the web's leading social shopping site. With an active community of millions of shoppers, and over 65.2 million products from over 21,000 stores, Pronto (Read More)
Valleywag:
As an NBC chairman, Ben Silverman once mingled with true media titans. But now the fallen mogul rolls with a different crowd; we hear he's besties with CollegeHumor editor-in-chief Ricky Van Veen. Now they might be in busines (Read More)
Valleywag:
A close-up view of Barry Diller's palace, the IAC Building in West Chelsea, makes things look a little shaky. Image via Bob Jagendorf's Flickr]
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paidContent.org:
» IAC (NSDQ: IACI) is considering a deal that would make College Humor part of Ben Silverman’s new entertainment company. [AdAge]» Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) is letting “Amazon Assoc (Read More)
TechCrunch:
Bone-headed patent lawsuit number 573482: a company called WebMap Technologies is suing a host of technology companies over an online map patent that was issued over 5 years ago, reports Law360 (requires registration). The pa (Read More)
Silicon Alley Insider:
The Google (GOOG) Brain Drain continues today, this time at YouTube.Jordan Hoffner, head of content partnerships for YouTube is heading to Ben Silverman's new IAC (IACI) company, reports Rafat Ali at PaidContent. Filling Hoff (Read More)
paidContent.org:
Jordan Hoffner, the head of content partnerships for YouTube, is leaving the company, and joining Ben Silverman’s new content venture at IAC (NSDQ: IACI), we have learned. The m (Read More)
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Last week we held our first Entertainment Summit in Los Angeles CA at the impressive SLS Hotel, following a similar format we launched at our New York Agency Days last fall. This time we brought together 16 First Round Ca (Read More)
All Things Digital:
The big steps we’ve been out and after for the last several years in search [have] not been achieved and you’d have to say that the future is speculative. We’ve been asked a lot whether we’re open to consolidating transaction (Read More)
Silicon Alley Insider:
IAC (IACI) boss Barry Diller basically put Ask.com on the market during yesterday's earnings call. And as Reuters notes, there's no more likely buyer -- or outsourcing partner -- than Microsoft (MSFT).Read the rest of this st (Read More)