Should IAC Merge With AOL?
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IAC/InterActiveCorp is probably not interested in combining with AOL. But such a deal may be a good way to deal with the competition posed by Microsoftâs proposed acquisition of Yahoo.
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Reports say America Online will split into four semi-autonomous segments to ease decision making. NEW YORK  - America Online is reorganizing itself into four operational units to improve decision
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Time Warner CEO Jeffrey Bewkes plans to split AOL into separate businesses, one for access involving its dial-up Internet service, and the other on its audience unit, which would cover its portal and advertising business.
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Time Warner Inc.&#039;s  AOL unit is  considering offering its services, except for Internet access,  free of charge to anyone with a high-speed connection, a source  familiar with the plans said on Thursday.
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In a recent AP article, IAC&#8217;s Chairman of the Board Barry Diller was quoted as saying that not only is Ask.com the glue which keeps IAC together, but Ask.com&#8217;s search technology is also better than Google. Diller said the company would use its Ask.com search engine, which claims about 6 percent of the search market, as [...]
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Time Warner plans to split up the Internet access and audience businesses of its AOL segment to run them each independently, Time Warner CEO and President Jeff Bewkes revealed Wednesday.The move comes as little surprise, as former CEO Dick Parsons acknowledged in September that Time Warner would at some point divest itself from the AOL access business, though he made no commitment to do so at the time.On Bewkes&#39; first quarterly financial conference call Wednesday since taking his position as CEO on Jan. 1, he said Time Warner&#39;s plans to split AOL&#39;s businesses will help hasten the segment&#39;s business-model transition from &quot;a declining ISP subscription business to a growing Internet ad business.&quot;&quot;This should significantly increase AOL&#39;s strategic options for each of these main business sectors,&quot; Bewkes said on a call to reveal Time Warner&#39;s fourth-quarter 2007 earnings. He made a distinction between AOL&#39;s for-fee Internet-access service and its ad-supported audience business, which includes AOL&#39;s online services and content.Bewkes did not give a specific timeline or other details for when and how the split will occur. AOL&#39;s Internet-access business, which still provides for-fee service, continues to decline in subscribers even as Bewkes noted that Time Warner has reduced operating expenses at AOL by &quot;well over a billion dollars.&quot;Still, even as AOL&#39;s goal is to become a viable online advertising competitor against Google, Yahoo and Microsoft -- the latter two of which may soon become a single and more formidable rival -- advertising revenue for AOL has been growing less than the industry average for several quarters.In the fourth quarter, ad revenue at AOL grew 18 percent, less than the current International Advertising Bureau&#39;s industry average of 25 percent. As a point of comparison, Google&#39;s ad revenue grew 51 percent in its fiscal fourth quarter.AOL&#39;s ad revenue growth was below industry average for both its 2007 second and third quarters as well. It grew 13 percent in the third quarter, which ended Sept. 30, and 16 percent in the second quarter, which ended June 30. The industry average was around 26 percent for those time periods.Time Warner&#39;s financial results for the quarter overall met Wall Street expectations, but net income was down for the quarter. The company reported $1.03 billion, or $0.28 a share, for the fourth quarter, down from $1.75 billion, or $0.44, last year. However, the results for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2006 were bolstered by an income-tax benefit as well as income from the sale of AOL Internet access businesses in the U.K. and France.Quarterly revenue rose 2.4 percent, from $12.34 billion in the year-ago quarter to $12.64 billion, reported Wednesday.Bewkes on Wednesday also outlined other cost-cutting and strategic measures that Time Warner plans to take to make the business run more effectively. The company&#39;s AOL business is not the only one that will be affected; the company also is considering reducing its investments in its Time Warner Cable business, he said.(Juan Carlos Perez in Miami contributed to this report.)
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He put it together and he can take it apart. When the dot-com bubble burst, Barry Diller scooped up the pieces and formed them into an e-commerce travel and entertainment empire, IAC/InterActiveCorp (nasdaq: IACI - news - people ).
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IAC/InterActive spins off the online travel service. Also: PCs sprout second brain.... Nielson ratings show broadband users surpassing dialup.... and more.
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Time Warner Inc. has been trying to figure out what to do with its struggling AOL unit for a few years now. A potential combination of Microsoft Corp. and Yahoo Inc. could put even more pressure on the media conglomerate to take action.
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IAC/InterActiveCorp. IACI.O, saying  its growth is being hindered by the perception that it is  strictly a travel company, on Tuesday said it plans to split  itself in two by spinning off online travel service Expedia.com  and related businesses into a company to be called Expedia.
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By San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  Jun. 3--A WEB OF WEB PROPERTIES   IAC owns and operates 65 brands, and counting. They include:   Ask.com| A search engine acquired by IAC in July 2005. Competes with Google, Yahoo and MSN.
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bulk messages clogging instant-messaging accounts. AOL and its Anti-Spam Alliance partners -- EarthLink, Microsoft, and Yahoo
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IAC/InterActiveCorp's Ask.com Internet  search service could grow its share of the market to 8 to 10  percent from a current level around 2 percent, IAC Chief  Executive Barry Diller said on Tuesday.
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These merging companies will sop up savings, but will they keep their customers?
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Don't bury AOL. It's not dead yet.
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IAC/InterActiveCorp is to split into two companies with the aim of increasing its share of the online travel market and allowing it to focus more on its non-travel businesses.
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America Online Inc. and Time Warner Cable finally overcame their differences yesterday, putting in place a partnership to connect computer users to the Internet that was cited five years ago as a key reason for the &#36;112 billion America Online-Time Warner Inc. merger.