Conversations with the most influential figures in media and technology.
May 27-29, 2008
Carlsbad, California
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Speaker
Barry Diller 
Chairman and CEO
IAC
Barry Diller needs almost no introduction–he is one of the best-known executives in the U.S., straddling a number of industries, including entertainment, online and retail. Well known too for his biting wit and gimlet gaze, he has recently been embroiled in a high-profile battle for control of IAC with major investor John Malone, another well-known mogul. What's been at stake are some of the Web's most famous names, including HSN, Ticketmaster, LendingTree, Match.com, Ask.com, CitySearch and Evite. Mr. Diller was one of the first Hollywood executives to take interest in the interactive space, which made him unusual when he started focusing on the Web in the mid-1990s. Before that, he served as chairman and CEO of Fox Inc. from 1984 to 1992. Previous to that, Mr. Diller was chairman and CEO of Paramount Pictures for a decade. He started off his career in television at ABC.
Posts With Barry Diller
Aereo, Citing Tweets and Conference Calls, Fires Off a New Legal Salvo at CBS
Short version: “We’ll sue you before you sue us.”
The Name Is Irrelevant
The problem is calling them newspapers …
– Barry Diller, in an interview with Katherine Weymouth, CEO of the Washington Post, at the Newspaper Association of America’s mediaXchange on Tuesday
Voices
New Threat to Aereo TV
The TV industry’s best hope of shutting down TV startup Aereo Inc. anytime soon could rest, bizarrely enough, on a legal case involving something called Aereokiller LLC.Barry Diller and Aereo Win Another Legal Battle
The Web video service can continue to deliver broadcast TV without paying for it.
The New York Times Tries Selling the Boston Globe Again
The Times bought the Globe for $1.1 billion in 1993. Today…
Aereo CEO Thinks Plenty of People Will Pay for Free TV
“Content costs only go up, technology costs only go down,” says Aereo CEO Chet Kanojia.
Barry Diller Wants to Take You on a Blind Date, and He Wants You to Pay
A new mobile app from IAC’s Match helps you get fixed up fast. More interesting: Its rating system, which forces people to pay up to praise someone.
Aereo Raises $38 Million to Take Its Cord-Cutting Service to 22 More Cities
The TV guys are suing to shut the TV-over-the-Web startup down. Full steam ahead, says Barry Diller.
Expedia Invests in Room 77’s Big $30 Million Round
The three-year-old hotel search company just raised $30.3 million from a number of high-profile investors who know a thing or two about travel.
QOTD: Maybe Information Wants to Be Ad-Free?
We’re increasingly struck how advertising is dominated online by huge entities, and how compromising and time-consuming it could be for so few of us to try and lure big corporations to support us. We’re also mindful how online ads have created incentives for pageviews over quality content.
– “The Dish” blogger Andrew Sullivan, explaining why his new site will be supported (for now) entirely by reader subscriptions/contributions