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BARRY DILLER INTERACTIVE CORP TO BUY ASK JEEVES

Barry Diller, Chairman and CEO of InterActive Corp, the e-commerce group announced on March 21, 2005 that it will buy Ask Jeeves, a website that uses a butler as its symbol. This is InterActive Corp expanding interest into teh internet search business. (UPI Photo/Ezio Petersen)


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NEW YORK, Aug. 21 (UPI) -- InterActiveCorp said Thursday it had completed spin offs that would create five separate companies out of its 60 mostly U.S. brands.
BEIJING, Nov. 23 (UPI) -- IAC, the U.S. media conglomerate, announced plans in Beijing Friday to spend $100 million on a new Internet business in China.
LONDON, Sept. 23 (UPI) -- The Web site askjeeves.com is dumping its butler icon.
NEW YORK, June 8 (UPI) -- NBC Universal will pay $3.4 billion to Barry Diller, the U.S. head of IAC/Interactive Corp., for his 5.4 percent stake in Vivendi Universal Entertainment.
PHILADELPHIA, March 21 (UPI) -- Philadelphia-based IAC/InterActiveCorp may acquire Ask Jeeves, the fifth-largest search engine firm, for $1.9 billion, the New York Times reported Monday.
NEW YORK, Dec. 21 (UPI) -- InterActiveCorp, which includes U.S. travel business Expedia, will spinoff the online travel unit in a tax-free move to be completed by July.
DALLAS, June 11 (UPI) -- There's no love lost between two Texas online dating Web sites caught up in a dispute over four employees who left one for the other.
NEW YORK, March 18 (UPI) -- Vivendi Universal has gone to court in Delaware against Barry Diller, a major shareholder in the French-based company's entertainment holdings.
WASHINGTON, June 3 (UPI) -- After much debate, the Federal Communications Commission has, by a vote of 3-to-2, loosened restrictions on the ownership of broadcast properties.
WASHINGTON, May 29 (UPI) -- The debate over whether the Federal Communications Commission should loosen restrictions on the ownership of newspaper and broadcast media outlets raises diffic
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