Despite reports that a sale of Newsweek by Barry Diller's IAC/Interactive to Penske Media, owner of Deadline.com and Variety, was all but a done deal, it was announced on Saturday that IBT Media, publisher of...
roadcasters have lost another round against the Barry Diller-backed Aereo service, which picks up their signals over the air on tiny antennas assigned to individual subscribers and sends them to the subscribers' mobile devices. On...
PlayOn, which allows its subscribers to watch videos on the Internet via wi-fi-enabled gaming devices, said on Tuesday that it has struck a deal with the controversial Barry Diller-backed Aereo service that will also bring...
roadcasters are making a new stab at trying to block the Aereokiller service, which, like Aereo, provides consumers with tiny remote antennas that send their choice of programs to them over the Internet. Our complaint...
The Barry Diller-backed Aereo service, which allows users to watch broadcast TV shows on mobile devices like the iPad and iPhone or on their personal computers, announced a new subscription plan on Monday. Subscribers willing...
In what at first glance appears to be an effort to undercut Barry Diller's Aereo service, which provides broadcast signals over the Internet to subscribers, ABC announced on Sunday that it will launch an app...
Following CBS's declaration that it will attempt to block Aereo from setting up shop in Boston, the Barry Diller-controlled company has asked a federal court in New York for a declaratory judgment that would in...
With individual broadcasters threatening to sue him in every market where he tries to introduce his Aereo service -- which delivers local broadcasts to smartphones, laptops and tablets via the Internet -- Barry Diller isn't...
The head of Sinclair Broadcast Group, which with its recent acquisition of the Fisher Communications TV stations now owns 29 Fox affiliates, has pooh-poohed the notion that Barry Diller's Aereo service poses a threat to...
News Corp President Chase Carey on Monday threatened to shut down Fox Broadcasting and turn it into a cable-only network if the courts reject the broadcast networks' efforts to shut down Barry Diller's Aereo service....
Cable companies could find that they have a mighty ally, Barry Diller's Aereo, in their battle with broadcasters over retransmission fees -- at least in the short run, BTIG analyst Richard Greenfield observed in a...
Several broadcasters, including Fox, Univision and PBS, filed a brief on Friday challenging a federal judge's decision to allow Barry Diller's Aereo service to continue streaming their signals in New York City without permission....
Several broadcasters, including Fox, Univision and PBS, filed a brief on Friday challenging a federal judge's decision to allow Barry Diller's Aereo service to continue streaming their signals in New York City without permission. Aereo...
Given at least a temporary go-ahead by a federal judge on Wednesday, Barry Diller says he is planning to expand his Aereo streaming service to most of the largest U.S. cities by the end of...
Barry Diller won a major battle against the major broadcast networks on Wednesday when a federal judge declined to issue an injunction that would block his Aereo system from operating. "Now we can really begin...
Efforts by the major broadcasters to protect their business models against technological innovations hit legal roadblocks in two New York courtrooms on Wednesday. In one, a federal judge granted the DISH satellite service a temporary...
A federal court is expected to rule Wednesday on the effort by the nation's leading broadcast networks to shut down Aereo, a $12-a-month service backed by media entrepreneur Barry Diller that allows users to view...
Barry Diller has won an unexpected early-round legal victory against the major broadcast networks, as a federal judge on Monday threw out an unfair-competition complaint that they had filed against Diller's Aereo service. The service...
Diane von Furstenberg takes people on a walk if she wants to fire them. The Belgium-born designer - who is best known for her iconic wrap dress - enjoys having ''serious'' conversations with people while...
Aereo, the new broadcasting service being launched by media mogul Barry Diller, maintained in a court filing on Monday that it is "entirely lawful" and that it plans to operate within regulatory guidelines. The Aereo...
As was widely predicted, several television broadcasters in New York have filed suit in federal court in New York in an effort to block the Aero streaming TV service from launching on March 14. The...
Diane von Furstenberg won't let her recent skiing injury affect her New York Fashion Week show. The 64-year-old fashion designer was enjoying a ski break with her husband Barry Diller when an inexperienced skier lost...
Barry Diller, one of the first major entertainment moguls to recognize the potential of the Internet, and John Malone, head of the sprawling Liberty Media, have come to a parting of the ways -- sort...
Diane von Furstenberg is set to give away half her fortune to charity.The designer has promised to donate 50 per cent of her wealth to the Giving Pledge - an initiative set up by Microsoft...
Sumner Redstone, the chairman of Viacom and CBS, was reported to be delighted with the notoriety he achieved this week when a recording of a voicemail message to a celebrity website was broadcast on numerous...
In an astonishing telephone recording, topped perhaps only by the recent recorded rants of Mel Gibson, Viacom and CBS Chairman Sumner Redstone has seemingly offered a bribe to a reporter for giving up the name...
Media mogul and Internet investor Barry Diller says that he's holding off adding to his holdings because prices of companies he may be interested in are "still artificially high." In an interview with CNBC, the...
Suddenly and surprisingly media moguls Barry Diller and John Malone have patched things up. Malone will not pull Liberty Media out of Diller's InterActiveCorp, as was widely presumed following a Delaware court decision favoring Diller....
Although numerous analysts had predicted that the dispute between billionaire media moguls Barry Diller and John Malone would never see the light of a courtroom and would be settled early on, a Delaware chancery judge...
In a comment that surprised his New York audience Tuesday, Barry Diller conceded that he may lose his InterActive Corp. to John Malone's Liberty Corp. when a Delaware judge rules on his dispute with Malone...