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The Motley Fool May 15, 2008 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	IAC Looks It Up IAC buys the parent company behind Dictionary.com.
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InternetNews January 10, 2008 Kenneth Corbin	Ask.com Shuffles Its Executive Deck In advance of a major reorganization at IAC/InterActive Corp., Ask.com has announced a shakeup of its top executives.
The Motley Fool November 6, 2007 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	Diller's Banana Split Within the next few months the InterActiveCorp media empire will be split into five distinct companies: IAC... Ticketmaster... HSN... LendingTree... and Interval International...
The Motley Fool November 29, 2006 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	Serial Diller Diversified new-media empire IAC is making some moves, again. The interlocking pieces that make up IAC have always had the potential to fit. The difference now is that they are actually starting to come together.
The Motley Fool February 6, 2008 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	Will Splitting Up Solve IAC's Problems? The conglomerate's pending breakup could unlock new-media value.
The Motley Fool April 30, 2008 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	Split Already, Will You, IAC? The plan to split the IAC empire into five stand-alone units still hasn't materialized.
The Motley Fool January 29, 2008 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	Media Moguls' Melee The battle for IAC heats up. Liberty Media's John Malone is now trying to oust Barry Diller and his cronies from the IAC board, upset over the terms to dilute Liberty Media's controlling stake in the company through a proposed split of IAC into five distinct entities.
BusinessWeek November 11, 2010 Stone & Pulley	Diller's Ask.com Stops Searching IAC/InterActiveCorp has decided that Google is unstoppable in search, so it's recasting Ask.com as a Q&A site.
The Motley Fool October 4, 2006 Tim Beyers	Fool on the Street: Asking IAC/Interactive Since acquiring the former AskJeeves search engine in March of last year, and the successful relaunch of Ask.com earlier this year, IAC has experienced a financial renaissance of sorts. Investors, take note.
InternetNews July 13, 2009	Ask.com Is Still at Your Service The famous AskJeeves butler is long gone, but Ask.com is holding its own in the competitive search game.
The Motley Fool August 1, 2006 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	Fill Us, Diller InterActiveCorp produces another solid, yet sadly misunderstood, quarter. Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool February 3, 2009 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	IAC Misses the Mark Yet Again New media giant IAC is on a bad streak -- they've come up short on bottom-line analyst estimates in each of the past five quarters.
The Motley Fool August 1, 2007 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	Diller's in a Pickle at IAC The biggest opportunity at IAC lies in its Ask.com search engine. Investors, take note.
InternetNews April 25, 2007 Nicholas Carlson	New 'Killer Diller' Protege Steps Up Jim Safka, former CEO of IAC property Match.com, has been named CEO of a new IAC-owned venture to identify new business opportunities.
The Motley Fool August 22, 2008 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	5 New Ways to Buy IAC IAC/InterActiveCorp finally splits into five companies.
The Motley Fool December 21, 2004 Alyce Lomax	Expedia Flies Away Investors seem eager to let the untangling begin as InterActiveCorp. plans to spin off the travel-oriented areas of business into a publicly traded company that will be known by the name of one its most well-known brands, Expedia.
The Motley Fool January 14, 2009 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	IAC Sells Its 23/6 Comedy Site IAC is selling its interest in the politically tinged comedy site 236.com to fellow stakeholder Huffington Post.
The Motley Fool February 6, 2007 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	Dial D for Diller The recent fourth-quarter report out of IAC/InterActiveCorp confirms that all four of the company's core businesses keep clawing their way to higher ground. Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool November 5, 2008 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	Before and After at IAC Barry Diller's new-media company is certainly slimmer these days, posting its first quarterly report since splitting into five different companies this summer.
Information Today March 10, 2008 Paula J. Hane	Ask.com Scales Back to Target Its Core Customers The internet portal has plans to scale back operations, laying off around 40 people (about 8% of its total employees), and move in a new direction for its search business.
Search Engine Watch September 12, 2005 Andrew Goodman	Ask Jeeves CEO: "We Are Focused on Core Search" Now that Ask Jeeves is part of aggressive online powerhouse InterActive Corp., what's next for the search engine and its various services? Ask Jeeves' CEO Steve Berkowitz discusses the company's future.
Fast Company December 1, 2007 Chuck Salter	The New IAC For more than a decade, Barry Diller has been on a multibillion-dollar shopping spree that created one of the Web's busiest networks.
The Motley Fool March 8, 2007 Emil Lee	IAC/InterActiveCorp Increases Interactivity The company continues to mold its cornucopia of Web properties. Investors, this company is run to maximize long-term cash flow and was built with a vision of synergy and of digging a substantial economic moat.
Search Engine Watch March 28, 2006 Andrew Goodman	Danny Sullivan Asks Barry Diller What's up with the company formerly known as Ask Jeeves?
The Motley Fool November 2, 2006 Emil Lee	Why I'm Holding InterActiveCorp The online middleman has powerful network advantages and sturdy cash flow. Value investors rarely find great businesses trading at reasonable valuations -- but this one is.
BusinessWeek August 27, 2009 Ronald Grover	Barry Diller's Brash New Strategy Media mogul Barry Diller plans to make money on the Internet where so many others have failed.
The Motley Fool May 2, 2006 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	IAC Means "I'm Always Changing" InterActiveCorp produces another solid, yet sadly misunderstood, quarter. Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool March 21, 2005 Tom Taulli	Jeeves Retires a Billionaire Whereas "synergies" are often elusive (read: nonexistent) in M&A, they may not be with the IAC/AskJeeves combination.
Search Engine Watch March 6, 2008 Kevin Newcomb	Ask.com Remains Committed to Search The reports of Ask.com's death have been exaggerated. The company is not throwing in the towel, as many believe.
The Motley Fool March 12, 2007 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	Oh, Great -- Another Financial Site? Dow Jones and IAC hook up to bring you a new personal-finance outlet. Investors, the pieces fit together a lot better than you may think.
InternetNews February 10, 2006 Michael Hickins	IAC/InterActive Firing The Butler? Is Ask Jeeves, swimming in a crowded pool of search engines vying for the lead, ripe for a sell off?
The Motley Fool September 7, 2007 Katrina Chan	Ask.com Seeking Better Algorithm The search site still lacks the right stuff. Ask.com could not separate websites from other search results, nor could it filter out duplicate articles from the same source.
The Motley Fool June 6, 2007 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	Ask.com and Ye Shall Receive Ask.com enhances its search-engine offerings. With just 5% of the search engine market, IAC has no problem taking chances. Investors, take note.
Information Today December 2006 Paula J. Hane	New AskCity Integrates Local Content, Technology, and Tools Ask.com, which has struggled for a share of the Web search market in the face of Google dominance, is hoping to make its mark in providing local search information.
The Motley Fool November 10, 2010 April Taylor	Another Search Competitor Bites The Dust IAC's Ask.com announced that it was cutting jobs that support the development of its search engine, and that it would use results provided by a competing search engine.
InternetNews December 21, 2004 Colin C. Haley	Diller's IAC Spinning Off Expedia InterActiveCorp plans to spin-out Expedia and its other travel-related sites as a separate company next year
The Motley Fool October 3, 2007 Tim Beyers	Barry Diller Needs a Second Life InterActiveCorp may make a good match for Second Life, offering the virtual inhabitants Ticketmaster, LendingTree, Citysearch, Match.com, and other online services.
The Motley Fool October 31, 2007 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	I Want to Be Barry Diller for Halloween InterActiveCorp's collection of prolific websites and retail units came through with a respectable showing this quarter.
InternetNews February 27, 2006 Susan Kuchinskas	Ask Says Bye to Butler Ask Jeeves rebrands to highlight new service and features.
The Motley Fool February 27, 2006 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	Ask, the World Turns Ask.com starts a new life with Jeeves riding off into the sunset. But losing the edge of Jeeves won't matter if the company is able to put its many dot-com puzzle pieces together. Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool August 5, 2004 Bill Mann	InterActive Complications InterActive Corp. may offer an opportunity, but please don't take the company on faith. The company he runs saw its stock crater yesterday after it reported revenue growth of only 20%.
InternetNews October 6, 2008 David Needle	Ask.com Overhauls to Take On Search Leaders The latest version of Ask.com includes a revamped interface and other features designed to simplify a user's quest for the right results.
The Motley Fool October 31, 2006 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	IAC's Got Candy Everybody Wants InterActiveCorp produces another solid quarter. If its winning streak keeps going, you can be sure that even more new investors will be buying in as well.
The Motley Fool November 13, 2007 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	Are Microsoft and Yahoo! That Stupid? InterActiveCorp extends and expands its advertising agreement with Google for another five years.
Search Engine Watch October 10, 2006 Brian Smith	A Closer Look at Ask's Smart Answers Ask.com has truly differentiated itself with the "Smart Answers" it returns for thousands of queries, offering facts, images and targeted links that respond directly to a searcher's information need.
The Motley Fool January 14, 2010 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	Bing Gets Dinged Everyone is losing ground to Google.
The Motley Fool January 25, 2008 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	Diller Goes In for a Physical IAC is buying a stake in a network of health-related websites.
The Motley Fool February 8, 2008 Rich Duprey	Pricing Microsoft's Mistake A Microhoo! merger might put them on par with Google, but at what cost to Microsoft investors?
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