5 posts and columns on LendingTree

LendingTree Suit Claims Google Is Getting Into Mortgages

in News on August 27, 2009 at 1:45 am PT

A suit filed on Tuesday by online mortgage company LendingTree relies on a provocative premise: Google is getting into the loan aggregation business. The suit, filed in a Charlotte federal court, is against a company called Mortech, which provides a technology that LendingTree uses to automate lender offer pricing.

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.
Barry Diller

More Mogul Mud Wrestling

in News on January 29, 2008 at 2:14 am PT

How’s this for a juicy quote?: “I am beginning to think these people are insane. … Everything they cite is hogwash.” That’s what is known as a classic Barry Diller, who can be relied on to come out with a good one when provoked. In this case, the provocateur is Liberty Media’s John Malone (pictured [...]

Monaco Media Forum: Barry Diller Is Not Shy

in News on November 12, 2007 at 12:10 am PT

One of the great things about interviewing Barry Diller, the Hollywood mogul turned Internet impresario (via InterActiveCorp), is that he actually answers questions you ask him. Here is a sampling of quotes from my one-on-one interview with him onstage at the Monaco Media Forum on Friday morning, taken from the not-so-audible audio of my Flip [...]