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Greg Blatt is the CEO of InterActiveCorp.

InterActiveCorp (IAC) is a force in electronic commerce, both on television and online. The company owns the Home Shopping Network (HSN), along with Ticketmaster, Citysearch and Match.com among many other services (see the list below).

Home Shopping Network is one of the leaders in American television direct retailing, although as measured by total sales it is second to QVC, a service of Liberty Media Corporation. Other competing services include Shop at Home (from E.W. Scripps Co.) and ShopNBC (from NBC Universal).

Home Shopping Network had total revenues of $2.38 billion in 2004. As a group, TV retailers had 2004 revenues of about $7 billion. In a 2003 report, Morgan Stanley & Co. estimated that about 12% of the U.S. population watches home shopping services on TV.

In July 2005 the company decided to spin off the online travel business Expedia, making it an indepedent company.

Also in July 2005, InterActiveCorp bought search engine Ask Jeeves, continuing a long history of acquisitions, divestitures and related financial gymnastics.

CEO Barry Diller has been criticized for richly compensating himself - to the tune of $469 million in 2005 - to run the company.

The company had revenue of $6.2 billion in 2004.

Contact Information

Web Site:www.iac.com
Telephone:212.314.7300
Fax:212.314.7379
Address:555 West 18th Street
New York NY 10011
USA

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Other InterActiveCorp Properties


Ask Jeeves
Citysearch
Entertainment Publications
Evite
GetSmart
Gifts.com
Hotels.com
Hotwire.com
Lending Tree
Match.com
RealEstate.com
ServiceMagic
Ticketmaster

Comments about InterActiveCorp

Comments to date: 6. The most recent comments are below.

poor bcasue of hsn    everywhere america

Posted at 10:03am on Saturday, July 16, 2011

Wow
HSN is really the owner of Ask Jeeves? Really
Wow.
HI world me again....I thought you'd like to know that hsn is the owner of the worlds largest virus production and infection company in the world.

Ask Jeeves is a virus... When you download the tool bar it installs malware and back door trojans into your system that replicate when you press the "x" close button.
When you try to remove it...it brings up a prompt telling you lies about you having infections and immediately changes its name to some sham of a virus cleaning program...It gives you the virus tells you to register this product with your credit information and then removes the non existent virus for you. Now you just gave Hsn your credit information for the second time..this time its through illegal means. Now hsn can sell you its world renowned Vipre virus protection.
Wow. Did I just tell you that the company selling you your virus protection is also infecting your computer...key logging your passwords and doubly taking your money.......all under the guise its fixing your computer. Well now that your favorite companies that use to fix your computers have been forced out of business by hsn.......you get to purchase their computer repair licenses. Yes ut the only few companies that could....hsn has lethargically shut them down. They don't directly infect your machine.....they just allow the virus producers ad space on their website. so if you click on anything other than your product or that kind of direct website navigation...you get the virus with the ads on its website.


poor bcasue of hsn    everywhere america

Posted at 9:47am on Saturday, July 16, 2011

HI world....I think it's time you all know that hsn is a farce. Hsn and its founders and owners have slowly started the Commercial shutdown of America. It all starts with your great product getting national TV air time. However if hsn feels it wants to be lethargic...they will...your new company that is very successful........before taking your product to hasn......then after hsn it seems they wish to have exclusivity with your product. Which seems good at first. Then when hsn does get exclusivity with your product....They will get lethargic...they will only air your product at certain times....plus knowing you need more time to get the story of your product out to be successful on hsn live tv. So they recognize it. Like a young boy first discovering his penis and the great feeling you get when you touch it. They do that penis touching for you at first.....it feels good....then hsn starts to bite at the head. then they just deep throat it all down and take a big bite. Now your company has sold nothing on hsn.....bad air times.....not long enough to get high enough sales spikes to impress hsn. although this guy Barry Diller can take over a quarter billion for himself. Did he ever think about the small American Home Grown companies he was taking that money from....then he just steps down? Doesn't that sound like what the sharks in this country did to your 401k's....OK hsn...you want to rumble we can do this......I'm going to get the ones who make examples out of companies like hsn....to take notice at what hsn and its CEO's are doing to the little guy....same s*** the dirty republicans have been doing to the world. Yes thank Allah for hsn guys.......


Media Owners editors    Boulder Colorado USA

Posted at 10:28am on Thursday, December 23, 2010

Barry Diller's IAC Creates Own Content Farm

-- Seeking freelancers for $10 to $25 assignments, Advertising Age reported on December 22, 2010:

"Barry Diller appears to be cultivating his very own "content farm" at IAC. Though he recently relinquished the executive reins at the company he founded, IAC property Pronto has quietly launched a company called The Writers Network that looks for people willing to write short-length, how-to articles, much like Demand Media, America Online (AOL)'s SEED or Yahoo's Contributor's Network.

According to the website, most of the assignments center around how to put together parties, such as one titled "Formal Dinner Party Napkin Folding Ideas," which pays $15, and "How to Host a Nascar Party," which pays $20. The fees range from $10 to $25."

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Media Owners editors    Boulder, Colorado USA

Posted at 2:06pm on Thursday, December 16, 2010

Barry Diller Steps Down as IAC CEO

-- Variety reported on December 2, 2010:

"Barry Diller said Thursday that he is stepping down as CEO of IAC and that John Malone's Liberty Media has sold its entire stake in the company.

Diller will remain as chairman, but Greg Blatt, most recently CEO of IAC's Match.com, will take over as CEO. "It's been clear to me for some time that this company needs a full time aggressive and aspirational executive in the CEO role," Diller said, adding that it does not mean he will not remain involved in the business.

Diller recently partnered with Newsweek's new owner Sidney Harman to combine the print newsweekly with Diller's online site The Daily Beast. It is not clear whether this new venture impacted Diller's decision."

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Susan    Conroe, Texas

Posted at 7:18pm on Saturday, March 20, 2010

Just trying to find someone who will look at pictures of my 5 year old granddaughter and tell us if she has a chance @ modeling, or being in movies.


Media Owners editors    Boulder, Colorado USA

Posted at 3:52pm on Friday, September 25, 2009

IAC has loads of cash, CEO Barry Diller said on September 15, 2009. Bloomberg reported:

"IAC/InterActiveCorp, the operator of the Match.com dating Web site and Ask.com search engine, will use its cash to continue repurchasing stock, Chief Executive Officer Barry Diller said.

Diller said in an interview yesterday that he has no plans to make any major acquisitions and has “zero interest” in buying a stake in General Electric’s NBC Universal. Vivendi SA, the Paris-based media company, has an option to sell its 20 percent stake in NBC between mid-November and early December. GE owns the remaining 80 percent.

The 67-year-old Diller said he would rather invest in IAC’s businesses than acquire large media companies, which he sees as overvalued. The New York-based company had $1.61 billion in cash and $95.8 million in long-term debt as of June 30. Diller said on July 29 that the company had repurchased $300 million in stock since August 2008."

The full story:
www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=aMXfQT71eBcM


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