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Ballmer says Microsoft is open to Yahoo! search deal (from Corporate Dealmaker)

The Microsoft Corp.-Yahoo! Inc. marriage is off, as Tech Confidential's Alain Sherter so eloquently explains. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said there will be no outright acquisition of Yahoo!, but did say a partnership in the search engine market is possible. Ballmer didn't give details about what that deal may...

Posted on November 7, 2008 9:16 AM

IAC's ServiceMagic bets on European home-improvement sites (from Corporate Dealmaker)

Is a global housing slump the right time for a company in the home improvement business to expand internationally? ServiceMagic--owned by Barry Diller's IAC/InteractiveCorp--says yes. ServiceMagic, which hooks homeowners up with home improvement contractors via the Web, acquired a majority stake in Luxembourg's Koening Co. This is the first...

Posted on October 29, 2008 12:10 PM

Liberty Entertainment: Why track when you can spin? (from Corporate Dealmaker)

Think three tracking stocks are a little much for a single parent company? Then you and John Malone (pictured) have something in common. Liberty Media Corp. said Wednesday that it will split off Liberty Entertainment Group, one of its three trackers, to increase the company's maneuverability and strengthen its stock...

Posted on September 4, 2008 8:34 AM

Could 'Guitar Hero' have made a difference in MSFT-Yahoo!? (from Corporate Dealmaker)

While talks reportedly continue in the Microsoft Corp.-Yahoo! Inc. saga, other corporate execs have been unable to keep from commenting. And while it's interesting that Rupert Murdoch...

Posted on May 30, 2008 12:06 PM

As court fight with Malone looms, Diller shakes up his deal team (from Corporate Dealmaker)

Just a couple of weeks after unveiling a spinoff plan that infuriated major shareholder John Malone and set off a battle for control of IAC/InterActiveCorp, IAC's Barry Diller is reorganizing the M&A team at the New York media shop. Senior VP for business strategy Kimberly Gorsuch-Bradbury will "work on specific...

Posted on February 8, 2008 9:30 AM

Deconstructing the Diller-Malone donnybrook (from Corporate Dealmaker)

For good reason, much of the coverage of the court battle between John Malone's Liberty Media Corp. and Barry Diller of  IAC/InteractiveCorp has focused on the outsize personalities involved and the bitterness of the dispute between the two erstwhile allies. But this is also a case of two hyper-clever corporate...

Posted on January 30, 2008 9:46 AM