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Tuesday, February 3, 2009

Barry Diller: IAC’s Web Ads Really, Really Cratering

You’ve got to come up with a truly awful number to make people take notice of just how bad your ad business is doing these days. But IAC’s Barry Diller tried his best today: He says his company’s display ads may be down 50 percent this month.

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Friday, December 19, 2008

A Taco Truck in the Office and a Dude in a Cage: Behind the Scenes at College Humor’s New MTV Show

Working for Barry Diller is hard. But so is running a business while shooting a new MTV show in your office. College Humor’s Ricky Van Veen and Josh Abramson explain.

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Thursday, December 4, 2008

More Media Layoff/Shutdown Roundup: Time Inc., Forbes, NBC Universal, IAC

If you had any romantic notion that the beginning of holiday season meant an end to media layoff season, think again. This looks to be a particularly bad few days at Time Inc., where many of the magazines that asked workers to quit last month will now be firing them instead. But there are cuts, or planned cuts, coming to all manner of media companies.

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Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Dave Kansas Out at Dow Jones-IAC Finance Site FiLife

FiLife, the personal finance site co-owned IAC and Dow Jones, has a new boss. The company has brought in Ezra Kucharz, formerly an executive at online games company Oberon Media and at NBC’s iVillage, as president. He replaces Dave Kansas, a business news veteran. Kansas will stay on as an editor-at-large.

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Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Shhhhhh! Media, Tech Moguls Meeting Today. Don’t Tell Anyone!

Under normal circumstances, if the CEOs of big companies like Cisco, Microsoft, and Comcast speak in front of an audience of bigwigs, it’s news. But you’re unlikely to hear what John Chambers, Steve Ballmer and Brian Roberts say today and tomorrow at Quadrangle’s Foursquare conference–no press allowed. Unless…

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Peter Kafka has been covering media and technology since 1997, when he joined the staff of Forbes magazine. Most recently, he has been the managing editor of the tech and media Web site, Silicon Alley Insider. Read more »

Ethics Statement

Here is a statement of my ethics and coverage policies. It is more than most of you want to know, but, in the age of suspicion of the media, I am laying it all out.

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