Obama appoints tech execs to transition team
News President-elect Barack Obama has named technology executives from Google.org and InterActiveCorp to his transition team, according to reports. Google.org's Sonal Shah, and Julius Genachowski, a former InterActiveCorp (IAC) executive who also served...
[November 7, 2008, 8:31]
$1.85bn Ask Jeeves sale agreed
News InterActiveCorp has agreed to a $1.85bn buyout of search engine Ask Jeeves. If the deal passes regulatory scrutiny and gains approval of Ask Jeeves' shareholders, InterActiveCorp said it expects to close the transaction late in the second quarter...
[March 21, 2005, 17:15]
Friendster rivals get together
News In further evidence of a minor boom in social networking start-ups, InterActiveCorp said its Evite invitation service will compete with Friendster, and a San Francisco start-up acquired a competing personal networking service.
[November 13, 2003, 15:05]
Billionaire seeks to derail AOL-Google deal
News However, I am deeply concerned that the Time Warner board may be on the verge of making a disastrous decision concerning an agreement with Google if this agreement would make it more difficult in any way or effectively preclude a merger or other...
[December 20, 2005, 9:25]
Google hit by GraphOn patent suit
News According to GraphOn, the Google suit follows similar claims against AutoTrader.com, Classified Ventures, IAC/InterActiveCorp, Match.com, Yahoo, eHarmony.com and CareerBuilder. Software maker GraphOn has filed suit against search giant Google...
[August 18, 2008, 12:34]
$8m advertising patent victory for Yahoo
News Ask Jeeves, recently acquired by InterActiveCorp, said earlier this month that it would let advertisers bid for ad placement on its search results, like Yahoo and Google do. Online marketer Miva has agreed to pay Yahoo $8m (£4m) and ongoing...
[August 17, 2005, 9:40]
Overture founder set to unveil new search venture
News In the last year, Yahoo, Google and InterActiveCorp's Citysearch.com have invested heavily in improving local-search services and mapping in order to lure new visitors and to begin to attract regional advertisers online.
[October 5, 2004, 10:40]
Obama's search for a national CTO
News By naming technology executives to his transition team — especially former InterActiveCorp executive Julius Genachowski — president elect Barack Obama is signalling that he's likely to follow through with his proposal to appoint a chief technology...
[November 7, 2008, 10:49]
Facebook to fork out £5.9m in privacy settlement
News Named as defendants were Facebook, along with current and former Beacon participants Blockbuster, Fandango (owned by Comcast), Overstock.com, STA Travel, Zappos, Hotwire (owned by InterActiveCorp) and GameFly.
[September 21, 2009, 14:44]
