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New iPhone App Lets Users Count Calories Without Burning Any

Ina Fried in Mobile on April 5, 2011 at 12:13 pm PT

MealSnap taps the iPhone’s camera and a cloud service to allow people to count calories just by taking a picture of what they are about to eat. Assuming they like the result, they can then share the photo and info with friends and family using Facebook, Twitter and Foursquare.

Diller: Maybe I’ll Hold on to Ask.com After All

John Paczkowski in News on December 2, 2009 at 11:30 am PT

Turns out Barry Diller isn’t all that interested in selling off IAC’s Ask.com search engine, “speculative” though its future might be. Speaking at the Reuters Global Media Summit in New York on Wednesday, Diller said he’d rather partner with another search company than divest Ask outright.

And You Thought Ask.com Had an Annoying Jingle–Try "Bing Goes the Internet"

Kara Swisher in News on November 2, 2009 at 2:38 am PT

Now, BoomTown likes a good jingle as much as anyone else, but this new one from Microsoft’s Bing search service is sticking in my head like a piece of chewed gum. Shot at Keith Valley Middle School in Horsham, Pa., it uses 400 very adorable sixth graders, who are dragooned into one very large “Bing Goes the Internet” dance–complete with logo wear. The kids rock, the jingle not so much.

Two in a Row for IAC

John Paczkowski in News on October 27, 2009 at 5:34 am PT

Barry Diller’s IAC/InterActiveCorp racked up its second profitable quarter in a row Tuesday despite a decline in advertising. The company–which runs Ask.com and the Citysearch online city guide, among other things–posted earnings of $21.3 million, or 16 cents a share, compared with a year-earlier loss of $15.2 million, or 11 cents a share.

Exclusive: Patch Media CEO Brod Now Heading AOL's Venture Unit

Kara Swisher in News on July 17, 2009 at 2:39 pm PT

In yet another appointment of an exec close to AOL Chairman and CEO Tim Armstrong, Patch Media CEO Jon Brod has taken over the new venture arm of the Time Warner online unit. He ran Patch for Armstrong and was president and COO of Polar Capital Group, Armstrong’s private investment company, which is focused on the media, technology and sports sectors. Now Brod will helm AOL Ventures, a new unit of AOL that Armstrong created as part of a larger new strategy to invest in new things, and he will manage a portfolio of some of its more difficult recent acquisitions.

Welcome to Lucky D7: Still Gambling on the Digital Future

Kara Swisher in D7 on May 4, 2009 at 12:26 am PT

Incredibly, this is the seventh year of the D: All Things Digital conference. We feel very lucky to get here, especially in the midst of what our own site’s Digital Daily scribe, John Paczkowski, has so perfectly dubbed the “econalypse.” Ironically, Walt Mossberg and I planned to launch the very first conference in the middle of the last major downturn for tech, in 2001. But, in the carnage of the Web 1.0 meltdown, we actually held off for two years, with our first D gathering taking place in 2003.

Welcome to Lucky D7: Still Gambling on the Digital Future

Kara Swisher in D7 on May 4, 2009 at 12:15 am PT

Incredibly, this is the seventh year of the D: All Things Digital conference. We feel very lucky to get here, especially in the midst of what our own site’s Digital Daily scribe, John Paczkowski, has so perfectly dubbed the “econalypse.” Ironically, Walt Mossberg and I planned to launch the very first conference in the middle of the last major downturn for tech, in 2001. But, in the carnage of the Web 1.0 meltdown, we actually held off for two years, with our first D gathering taking place in 2003. Well, we’re still going–making the same long-term bet that the digital revolution will keep rolling as we did at D1. Here’s our lineup for D7.

IAC's Barry Diller Speaks About How Breaking Up Is Hard to Do

Kara Swisher in News on October 7, 2008 at 9:30 am PT

Don’t miss this very good interview–does he ever give a bad one?–that IAC/InterActive Corp’s Barry Diller did with The Wall Street Journal’s Shira Ovide in today’s edition. After a bruising court battle with shareholder and cable mogul John Malone, Diller finally broke apart the Internet conglomerate six weeks ago. His reason: IAC had become too complex and its stock had suffered due to the operating confusion.