They include New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, CNN founder Ted Turner and entertainment executive Barry Diller.
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Barry Diller extols the virtues of local programming (FORBES, Mar. 10, 1997), and so does Dallas' A.H.
Analysts couldn't be happier and Chairman Barry Diller is hoping investors will feel the same way.
The newest member of Barry Diller's media conglomerate is a search engine named RushmoreDrive that targets U.S. blacks.
Greenfield, an Aereo booster from the get-go, thinks the Barry Diller-backed company has, in effect, already won.
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The word is that he may team up with Barry Diller, the chairman of USA Interactive, and John C.
The Barry Diller-backed company expanded this year to the New York City suburbs, including New Jersey and parts of Connecticut.
Gut instinct, a staple at Barry Diller's InterActive Corp. and at Terry Semel's Yahoo, isn't in evidence at this company.
Barry Diller is known in the media world for being a heavy hitter who says exactly what's on his mind.
The fees have become so vital that broadcasters are worried about the threat posed by a Barry Diller-backed startup called Aereo.
Billoniare investor Barry Diller heads and is the controlling shareholder of IAC, and who is currently the Board Chairman of Expedia.
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In April BlueTie signed a deal with Barry Diller's InterActiveCorp to host 2 million e-mail accounts for its Excite portal and other brands.
Even likelier bidders are two internet firms, Yahoo and InterActiveCorp, whose respective bosses, Terry Semel and Barry Diller, hail fom the entertainment world.
First it was chairman Barry Diller claiming that The Daily Beast was the first standalone news site to publish mostly original journalism.
Twelve years ago Rosen walked away from ticketing giant Ticketmaster--which he had built into the industry's Goliath--once it was bought by Barry Diller's USA Networks.
Barry Diller's Match.com boasts 1.2 million subscribers and Yahoo (nasdaq: YHOO - news - people ) Personals has 5 million paying users.
Barry Diller is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of IAC, an Internet company whose properties include Ask.com, Match.com, Citysearch, Evite, The Daily Beast and Vimeo.
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Barry Diller would like to make it clear that he did not say on the earnings call as reported that Newsweek is going digital in September.
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Never accuse Barry Diller of being a bad neighbor.
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She and her billionaire spouse, media executive Barry Diller, have made significant financial contributions to the park, and one of the most popular High Line features bears their name.
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that merger talks between the Barry Diller-backed news site and the newsweekly, recently purchased by stereo equipment mogul Sidney Harman, are off.
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It sounds like Barry Diller did a better job selling himself on the idea of a Daily Beast-Newsweek merger than he did selling his opposite number, Newsweek owner Sidney Harman.
Hollywood moguls Barry Diller and David Geffen dropped out of UCLA and the University of Texas, respectively, while Microsoft's Bill Gates and Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg never completed their studies at Harvard.
Today, the industry is dominated by the likes of Match.com, owned by the media entrepreneur Barry Diller, and eHarmony, which was founded in 2000 by Neil Clark Warren, then a 66-year-old psychologist.
Yesterday, I wondered if it was really possible that IAC chairman Barry Diller had claimed that The Daily Beast is the first standalone news website to publish mostly original journalism.
Media mogul Barry Diller has been around many proverbial blocks in his day and has been deeply involved in all aspects of the media and internet businesses for nearly half a century.
In April BlueTie signed a deal with Barry Diller's InterActiveCorp (nasdaq: IACI - news - people ) to host 2 million e-mail accounts for its Excite portal and other brands.
"The problem with the personals area is that it has been misunderstood, " says Barry Diller , chief executive of USA Interactive (nasdaq: USAI - news - people ), Ticketmaster's parent.
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