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Celebrity Shopping Service OpenSky Hires Merchandising Exec

in Commerce on March 5 at 5:30 am PT

OpenSky, the e-commerce company that lets users “follow” celebrities using a Twitter-like system, has hired its first chief merchandising officer. Simon Black joins the New York-based start-up after running merchandising at Eddie Bauer and HSN. OpenSky has raised $49 million from investors including Providence Equity and Highland Capital.

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There Go the Servers: Lightning's New Perils

in News on August 25, 2009 at 1:00 am PT

It is summer storm season in Florida, and when lightning threatens, technicians at cable channel HSN fire up eight massive generators to ensure the home-shopping network won’t lose power. This time of year, HSN’s generators get switched on two or three times a day.

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Sorting Through Barry Diller's New Offspring

in News on August 13, 2008 at 12:05 pm PT

Trading began yesterday on a when-issued basis on the four IAC/Interactive (IACI) spinoff companies, as well as the new post-reverse-split, post-spin shares of IAC. With relatively thin dealings, volatility in the shares is high.

Rapp Becomes CEO of Gifts.com

in News on June 2, 2008 at 12:00 am PT

Jason Rapp, IAC’s SVP of mergers and acquisitions, will become CEO of Gifts.com, an IAC-created gifts recommendation engine. Gifts.com President & CEO William Lynch, who founded the site for IAC (IACI), will transition to HSN full-time as its EVP of marketing and content. He had previously been managing the HSN.com site, while also running Gifts.com. [...]

Life After Liberty: Barry Diller, Chairman and CEO, IAC

in D6 on May 28, 2008 at 11:12 am PT

Barry Diller needs almost no introduction–he is one of the best-known executives in the U.S., straddling a number of industries. He has recently been embroiled in a high-profile battle for control of IAC/InterActiveCorp. (IACI) with major investor John Malone. And then there’s Diller’s other company, travel services outfit Expedia, whose shares are surging this morning on market rumors that Diller is planning on taking it private.
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Barry Diller Shatters John Malone's Stake Into Little Itty Bits

in News on November 6, 2007 at 6:14 am PT

Yesterday, the battle between InterActiveCorp.’s Barry Diller and John Malone of Liberty Media got much more interesting. As luck would have it, I will be interviewing Diller on stage at the Monaco Media Forum in Monte-Carlo this week–yes, it’s as glamorous as it sounds–so now there will be lots more to talk to him about at the digital gathering. Diller is an excellent interview as he likes to parry more than the average CEO and he is good at it. Very good, as it turns out, when dealing with Malone. Also in BoomTown today: Marc Canter talks a blue streak about Google’s OpenSocial and we actually listen! Slide’s Max Levchin plays all the angles in the Google-Facebook war over OpenSocial–very clever, Max! Major lunch room snub of BoomTown by Yahoo’s Jerry Yang!