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11 Nov, 2008 10:24 pm
By Eric Goldman Lambotte v. IAC/InterActiveCorp, 2008 WL 4829882 (C.D. Cal. Nov. 4, 2008). Initial blog post on the filing of the first complaint. Lambotte filed this
putative class action lawsuit against IAC in May based on alleged click fraud. In July, the court granted summary judgment to ... . Lambotte and two new named plaintiffs then
filed an amended complaint in September. IAC moved to dismiss. This ruling largely rejects that motion. The plaintiffs argued that the contract says that ...
7 Feb, 2008 9:17 am
In explaining why IAC/InterActiveCorp's financial struggles were a reason to split the company apart, Barry Diller said that he isn't interested in pursuing a merger
between IAC and Time Warner's AOL. But Saul Hansell, our colleague at Bits, isn't so sure. While Mr. Diller's latest fight with John Malone and Liberty Media has put IAC's
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15 May, 2007 4:49 am
In a bid to expand its already-considerable influence in the live-music industry, Ticketmaster parent IAC/InterActiveCorp is acquiring a significant stake in one of the
biggest artist-representation businesses, Front Line Management, according to The Wall Street Journal. IAC, which is headed up by Barry Diller, was putting the finishing touches
on a deal to buy Front Line, [...]
5 Nov, 2007 9:36 am
In breaking up IAC/InterActiveCorp, Barry Diller is taking a step many thought he should have taken a long time ago. Many analysts and investors have derided the
12-year-old conglomerate as a jumble of companies, jerry-built by Mr. Diller's voracious wheeling and dealing. But Monday's plan - to carve IAC into five separate companies -
raised a [...]
6 Nov, 2007 5:25 am
Barry Diller is splitting IAC/InterActiveCorp into five parts, but will that be enough to end the tensions between Mr. Diller and his old partner, John C. Malone? Mr.
Diller and Mr. Malone, whose Liberty Media owns 24 percent of IAC, have been tussling over the fate of the conglomerate for some time. The two [...]
30 Oct, 2006 7:38 am
Barry Diller has been declared the highest-paid chief executive of 2005 in two separate rankings. So what is he doing at IAC/InteractiveCorp to earn his compensation
package? According to Newsweek, one of his main priorities is integrating his constellation of Web properties, acquired over the years at a total expense of more than $20 [...]
6 Nov, 2007 12:00 pm
Life won't necessarily be easy for IAC/InterActiveCorp's corporate offspring. Barry Diller's plan to carve his company into five parts got a rousing reception from Wall
Street on Monday, as investors seemed confident that the parts of his media and Internet conglomerate would be worth more than the whole. But a few of the spinoffs could have [...]
11 Feb, 2008 4:38 am
As the courts sort out a struggle for control of IAC/InterActiveCorp and its planned five-piece breakup, the company has reshuffled its in-house dealmakers. Shana Fisher,
senior vice president strategy and mergers & acquisitions, will continue to oversee strategy and the launch of the company's Instant Action gaming platform. Her deal-making role,
however, will be limited. Joey Levin, [...]
12 Mar, 2008 4:30 am
So much for the battle of the billionaires. The testimony on the second day of a trial to settle a dispute over the control of IAC/InterActiveCorp reduced a clash between
media titans Barry Diller and John C. Malone to a debate about detail. The lawyer for Liberty Media, Kevin Abrams, rested his case on Tuesday during the [...]
31 Mar, 2008 4:51 am
In the battle of the billionaire media moguls, the protégé won. A Delaware Chancery Court judge ruled Friday that Barry Diller could go forward with a plan to split his e-commerce
conglomerate IAC/InterActiveCorp into five companies, thwarting an attempt by John C. Malone to block the deal and oust Mr. Diller. The decision came two weeks after [...]
28 May, 2008 2:40 pm
By Eric Goldman Lambotte v. IAC/InterActiveCorp. (Cal. Superior Ct. complaint dated May 27, 2008) [warning: 1.9MB file] Ever since the Google and Yahoo click fraud
settlements in 2006, it's been fairly quiet on the click fraud front. See my most recent click fraud recap from February 2008. This lawsuit launches an interesting new battlefront in
the click fraud war. Instead of going after yet another search engine (of which there are only so many to sue!), the ...
22 Aug, 2008 11:46 am
Barry Diller's IAC/InterActiveCorp completed its split into five publicly traded companies Thursday - a move intended to give each business more focus and value than the
previously cluttered whole. With the split, home shopping network HSN, time-share business Interval Leisure Group, ticketing service Ticketmaster and lending and real estate business
Tree.com began regular trading Thursday [...]
2 Sep 4:41 pm
... In 2000, PRC merged with and became a wholly-owned subsidiary of Defendant IAC/InterActiveCorp ("IAC"). IAC assumed the Indemnification Agreement between
PRC and O'Brien. ... achieved "[u]ntil the final judgment of the trial court withstands appellate review . . . ." IAC alleged that the applicable date was April 19, 2005 when the
period for appealing the arbitration award ... Chancery's memorandum opinion and order do not exist in this case." IAC/Interactive Works f/k/a USA Networks, Inc. v. O'Brien ...
30 Jan, 2008 12:09 am
... she treated her dog much better than she treated her victim," U.S. District Judge Dale Fisher said. IAC Calls Liberty Media Suit 'Preposterous' The Deal Liberty Media Corp.
went to court on Monday to remove the board of IAC/InterActiveCorp, setting up a clash between media titans John Malone and Barry Diller. New York-based IAC, of
which Diller is chairman and CEO, issued a statement Tuesday saying that Malone's Liberty Media had gone to court to ...
4 Jun, 2008 12:03 pm
... Inc and Amazon.com Inc will be long-term winners, while Yahoo and IAC InterActiveCorp fall by the wayside and eBay Inc becomes a merger target. Sanford ... positions
that Yahoo eventually will be sold to Microsoft Corp and that Barry Diller's IAC e-commerce conglomerate will go ahead in August with its five-way split-up, ... have been
operating largely as conglomerates," the Bernstein analyst says of Yahoo and IAC. Read more here (from Reuters). And finally Microsoft is wanting the a piece of the web ...
28 Nov, 2006 8:31 am
Barry Diller, CEO of IAC/InterActiveCorp., whose compensation has been singled out by the corporate governance mafia, struck back at the NYT business pages and
"birdbrains" corporate activists. He thought "the whole consultant group should be flushed into the East River and no value loss would ever be seen by man," and that the obsession with
governance hurts American business. Diller lampooned a NYT columnist for criticizing his compensation based on a nominal figure ...
9 Nov, 2007 4:16 am
Valleywag reported Wednesday that Barry Diller's IAC/InterActiveCorp, in the midst of breaking up the company into five parts, was planning to take some time off that
project to buy youth-oriented social-networking site MyYearbook. CNet News, however, said Thursday that the parties involved were just pretending at dealmaking. The publication, which
reported that IAC has no plans to [...]
13 Nov, 2007 7:57 am
He may be splitting up his media and Internet conglomerate, but Barry Diller still can't seem to stop talking like an empire builder. Mr. Diller, the chairman of
IAC/InterActiveCorp, was discussing the five-way breakup plan for IAC with Advertising Age when he was asked about the possibility of further acquisitions. "We'd
never rule anything out," he [...]
14 Mar, 2008 4:40 am
The chief executive of IAC/InterActiveCorp, Barry Diller, testified Thursday that his plan to break up the media conglomerate was in the best interests of shareholders.
"It was in the interest of all of those invested in IAC," Mr. Diller said in a Delaware Chancery Court lawsuit pitting him against Liberty Media's chairman, John C. Malone. Mr.
Diller [...]
28 Mar, 2008 6:01 pm
In Re IAC/Interactivecorp, C.A. 3486-VCL (Del. Ch. March 28, 2008) In this widely reported decision, the Court of Chancery applied well established principles of contract
construction to determine when a proxy would be upheld. Once again, the Court rejected an attempt to modify the contract language to imply a duty of good faith and fair dealing, or a
fiduciary duty that would override the rights given in the contract.
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