Tag: IAC

Bloglines, a blog subscription service controlled by Ask.com, announced in September that it would be shutting down. That changed today, when Bloglines and Ask.com owner IAC decided to keep Bloglines alive, but not under the Ask.com banner. Bloglines and its 2.7 million subscribers are being handed off to another IAC property, MerchantCircle, starting on December 1. MerchantCircle seems like an ...

If you like to keep track of your friendly neighborhood media conglomerates, and what smaller companies they have recently swallowed into their great, yawning maw, then you need to download Who Owns What v2.1. Who Owns What is a printable chart (PDF) that tracks the recent acquisitions of a number of large companies: Yahoo!, Google, Microsoft, AOL, News Corporation, and IAC. Looking at the chart, ...

Seems like the big guys could be getting in a little trouble for violating patents. Among them, AOL, Amazon, Borders, Google, IAC (ASK), and Yahoo have all been accused. The charges from this IP-related company that stem from a patent infringement make notes about the violating parties implementing systems that 'comprise interpreting electronic messages with rule base and case base knowledge ...

Bloglines has just packed a bunch of new features into its online news feed searching, subscribing to and reading service, and it all begins with a start page. Bloglines headlines its new feature developments with a personalized start page. This is the page that brings everything together in a quick and easy view with an AJAX interface. There is nothing like starting feed reading off with a view ...