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MyCoupons.com Teams Up With Brand New Ask Deals

PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009

PITTSBURGH, Nov. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- MyCoupons, LLC is pleased to announce an agreement with Ask.com to help power their brand new Ask Deals search tool. In collaboration with exclusive couponing and deal websites, MyCoupons provides Ask Deals with content for Ask Deals search results. The Ask Deals search tool is essentially a deal finding search engine. Products, merchant names, or anything else can...

Microsoft Could Buy Ask.com

AccuraCast Search Daily News (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009

How far will Microsoft go, in their bid to increase the market share of their search engine Bing? The latest rumour making the rounds is that Microsoft may buy Ask.com, which has been up for sale for a long time now. Barry Diller, the Chairman of InterActive Corp, the parent company of Ask.com, has said that [...]

Blinkx exec jumps ship to join Videoplaza

TechCrunch UK (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009

[Sweden/UK] Stockholm-based Videoplaza have recruited blinkx’s former European Director of Business Development, Gavin Morgan, as its new UK Commercial Director. In his new role, Morgan will be charged with growing the ad server company's client base and increasing revenue in the UK. While at AIM-listed blinkx , which claims to be largest video search engine, Morgan helped forge partnerships...

Is Ask.com trying to court Microsoft as a buyer?

Todd Bishop's Microsoft Blog (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009

InterActiveCorp CEO Barry Diller indicated Tuesday that the company is looking for a potential buyer for its Ask.com search engine. And Wall Street analysts believe he's trying to reach out to Microsoft, reports Reuters.

Ask.com? Give it to Microsoft, He'll Eat Anything …

Digital Daily - All Things Digital (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009

If Barry Diller is looking for someone on which to unload IAC’s Ask.com search engine, he’d be wise to consider Microsoft — if that isn’t who he has in mind already. Analysts reflecting on Diller’s recent remarks about Ask’s “speculative future” say Microsoft is the most likely buyer if IAC is truly serious about dumping the little search engine that...

• DEALTALK - Microsoft seen as Diller's best bet for Ask.com - Sify

Should Microsoft Buy More Search Share By Acquiring Ask.com?

Mashable (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009

The search engine market was once a fairly predictable and intriguing place where the mantra was “Google-and-everybody-else.” There was innovation, but nobody really believed that Microsoft, Yahoo, or any other startup could pose a threat to Google’s search empire. The entire search market was thrown onto a roller coaster though when Microsoft revealed Bing to the world. The new...

Could Microsoft Save Ask.com?

Webmaster World (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009

"Microsoft Corp is viewed as the most likely buyer or partner for IAC/InterActiveCorp's Ask.com if CEO Barry Diller decides to throw in the towel on the struggling search engine."

Leapfish Set to Roll Out Real-Time Search

Website Marketing News (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009

There are many different ways to search the internet, regardless if you are looking for videos, pictures, or what have you. Having to go to different searching platforms can be rather time consuming. Thanks to the LeapFish multimedia searching platform, internet users worldwide will be able to enjoy the convenience of searching Google, Yahoo!, and [...] Related posts: LeapFish: Fastest Search Engine...

Google Receives 80 Percent of Canadian Searches in September 2009

.: Internet Ad Sales :. (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009

Ask.com increases 11 percent this past month New York, N.Y., Oct. 19, 2009 - Experian® Hitwise® announced today that Google search properties accounted for 80.46 percent of all Canadian searches conducted in the 12 weeks ending Oct. 3, 2009. Yahoo! search properties, Bing search properties and Ask search properties received 7.99 percent, 7.65 percent and 3.09 percent, respectively. The remaining...

Would anybody buy Jeeves? Ask might go on block

BloggingStocks (Free subscription) | 28/10/2009

Filed under: Deals , Rumors , Internet , Google (GOOG) , Microsoft (MSFT) , Yahoo! (YHOO) , IAC/InterActiveCorp (IACI) , Technology Unless you already have a major foothold in the search engine market - or an amazing, disruptive technology that can make the world take notice - there isn't much point in staying. Competing with Google (NASDAQ: GOOG ) is hard enough, even when you're Yahoo (NASDAQ: YHOO...

• Would anybody buy Jeeves? Ask might go on block - YHOO - BloggingStocks

Will Barry Diller Turn The lights Off On Ask.com?

Coated (Free subscription) | 28/10/2009

On a conference call held yesterday discussing IAC/InterActiveCorp (IACI.O) quarterly earnings, Barry Diller indicated that he would entertain the idea of selling the search engine Ask.com. Since it’s purchase in 2005, Ask.com has done little to capture a larger share of the lucrative search business. Currently, the online search site ranks a distant [...]

Ask.com For Sale?

Berman Post (Free subscription) | 28/10/2009

The search engine market could be shrinking again as Ask.com (formally AskJeeves.com) appears to be putting itself up for sale. The deal may be worth upwards of four-billion-dollars, and there is no clear immediate buyer. Depending on who buys them (meaning one of the 'big two' remaining), a serious anti-trust movement could pick up steam. http://thenextweb.com/2009/10/27/askcom-sale " Hold on...

Ask.com up on the auction block

Adotas (Free subscription) | 28/10/2009

ADOTAS — Perhaps Barry Diller could have gotten an offer on the spot at the IAC third-quarter conference call if he hammed it up with, “Take Ask.com — please.”But he wasn’t so blunt. Instead he responded to a question on selling the lagging search engine with this quip: “We’ve been asked a lot whether we’re open to consolidating transactions in the area...

• Barry Diller Asked about selling search, says yes - Cnet

IAC to Focus on Content

SeekingAlpha Internet Stocks (Free subscription) | 28/10/2009

Tech Confidential submits: IAC/InteractiveCorp (NASDAQ: IACI ) CEO Barry Diller is bullish on content production for the growing Internet and traditional broadcast television models. The brash executive is so excited about the area that he sees his firm getting more for less, saying he's willing to spend less than 10% of his company's $1.8 billion in cash reserves on deals for content production companies....

Will Barry Diller Unload Ask.com?

Tech Trader Daily (Free subscription) | 28/10/2009

Looking for a new employer? Anyone want to buy a search engine? On a conference call with analysts yesterday, IAC/Interactive (IACI) CEO Barry Diller indicated that the company might be willing to sell search engine Ask.com, which is a distant fourth in the search business behing Google (GOOG), Yahoo (YHOO) and Microsoft [...]