Hurricane Irene is ruining everything! Diane von Furstenberg and Barry Diller were all set to host a party for the premiere of Tanner Hall, a new film starring the soon-to-be-Dragon-Tattooed Rooney Mara and written by the designer's daughter, Tatiana von Furstenberg. There was to be a screening, followed by dinner at Nobu, and a party Read More
I went to the Bronx this weekend for a slice of pizza. I very rarely eat pizza, so when I do, I go to Mario's because it's the best. This older couple, Mr. and Mrs. Migliucci, own Mario's. They made me delicious pizza and pasta, so I invited them to the restaurant on Monday for Read More
Until hours before last night’s lavish amfAR Gala at Cipriani Wall Street, the glam and star-studded Fashion Week kickoff that happens just hours before the models and their gawkers descend upon Lincoln Center, it was unclear whether or not Diane von Furstenberg, the night's honoree, would make her appearance.
The reason? The queen of Read More
The worst part about braving a thunderstorm blizzard is that, sometimes, your Maserati gets stuck in the snow.
Barry Diller learned this the hard way! Lucky for him Katie Couric happened to be strolling by and possesses a hitherto unknown ability to move heavy objects. As she's an adherent of the "Pics or it didn't happen" Read More
IAC-owned comparative shopping site Pronto, Inc has quietly launched a content farm called The Writer's Network, reports Ad Age.
The Writer's Network currently has about 45 writers authoring "how to" articles on home and garden topics. The site says they will add finance, travel, parenting and more in 2011. The articles are 300 to Read More
When you score a New Yorker profile at age 23, where do you go next?
Ricky Van Veen, the 29-year old CEO of CollegeHumor, posed for cheesy photos in New York Magazine this week and talked about how to make funny:
Van Veen also loves stunts and weird pranks, such as when he hung IN-N-OUT BURGER Read More
Barry Diller stepped down as CEO of IAC today. The move comes as a surprise, Diller has been very active in IAC business in recent weeks, especially the Newsweek negotiations.
Diller will continue to be involved in major strategic decisions, but will step back from the day to day business. That work will be handled Read More
When it was reported by The New York Times Saturday, word of Newsweek.com's demise was news to the website's staffers. Though many on the embattled magazine's masthead have become used to receiving close-to-home information in such a way, the fact that their jobs could be at stake — just hours after a successful merger Read More
Last week marked the end of two investments by the IAC coporation. The first, Ask.com's decision to end algorithimc search, says more about Google's dominance than IAC's inability to innovate.
But the death of InstantAction, a gaming firm acquired by IAC for $50 million back in 2007, highlights a more troubling trend for Read More
Tina Brown met separately with the staffs of The Daily Beast and Newsweek today, just hours after a merger between the two very different publications was completed. Details of the combined entity, to be known officially as The Newsweek Daily Beast Company, are beginning to emerge.
The Observer broke the news last night that Read More
Less than eight hours after the Observer broke the news that Newsweek was set to merge with The Daily Beast, Tina Brown made the official announcement with a late night blog post.
"Some weddings take longer to plan than others," Brown wrote.
Talks between Newsweek and The Daily Beast began late this summer. According Read More
Newsweek and The Daily Beast will announce tomorrow morning that the two publications will merge, a source close to the deal tells The Observer.
It will be a 50-50 merger of the two companies. The editorial staffs will combine under the editorship of Tina Brown, who will again run a high-profile glossy.
Newsweek owner Sidney Harman, 92, Read More
Merger talks between Newsweek and The Daily Beast are back on—but then again, they were never off.
The New York Post's Keith Kelly reported this morning that "after a three-week cooling off period, talks are back on." Two sources close to the search for the next editor of Newsweek tell the Observer that the Read More
IAC made a smart surrender today, killing of Ask.com's algorithmic web search to focus its resources on social Q&A.
Competing with Google just didn't make sense, Ask.com President Doug Leeds told Bloomberg.
"It's become this huge juggernaut of a company that we really thought we could compete against by innovating. We did a great job of Read More
Reuters helpfully points to this SEC filing that shows Barry Diller has bought more shares in the Coca Cola company. How many? One-hundred twenty thousand, worth about $7.4 million, bringing his total stake up to 1.1 million shares of Coke.
Diller, CEO of Daily Beast publisher IAC/Interactive Corp., has been on the Coca-Cola Read More
