More

• IAC seeking buyer for Newsweek - Variety Tuesday, 28 May 2013 | 8:24 PM ET

  May 28- IAC/InterActive Corp is looking for potential buyers for Newsweek, the venerable magazine that stopped print publications in the United States last year in favor of an all digital format, the Hollywood trade paper Variety reported on Tuesday, citing sources who have been briefed on the matter.

• Aereo seeks to block CBS from suing in additional jurisdictions Monday, 6 May 2013 | 11:54 AM ET

  NEW YORK, May 6- Aereo Inc, the online television venture backed by Barry Diller, asked a federal court on Monday to block CBS Corp from suing it in new markets where it plans to expand. The startup company brought the complaint in Manhattan federal court, seeking a ruling that it does not violate CBS's copyright.

• UPDATE 1-Aereo seeks to block CBS from suing in additional markets Monday, 6 May 2013 | 12:56 AM ET

  NEW YORK, May 6- Aereo Inc, the online television venture backed by Barry Diller, asked a federal court on Monday to block CBS Corp from suing it in new markets where it plans to expand. The startup company brought the complaint in Manhattan federal court, seeking a ruling that it does not violate CBS's copyright.

• UPDATE 1-Aereo targets 30 pct of U.S. broadcasters' market -Diller Monday, 29 Apr 2013 | 5:46 PM ET

  LOS ANGELES, April 29- Barry Diller, the billionaire media mogul who is backing the startup Aereo TV service, said on Monday it expects to reach between 25 and 30 percent of the U.S. television audience with the wireless service that broadcasters say undermines the economics of their business.

• Aereo service targets 30 pct of US broadcasters' market -Diller Monday, 29 Apr 2013 | 3:14 PM ET

  LOS ANGELES, April 29- Barry Diller, the billionaire media mogul who is backing the startup Aereo TV service said it expects to reach between 25 and 30 percent of the U.S. television audience with the wireless service that broadcasters say undermines the economics of their business.

• UPDATE 2-Fox threatens to become cable channel amid Aereo dispute Monday, 8 Apr 2013 | 5:08 PM ET

  *News Corp's Fox says committed to free broadcast signals. LAS VEGAS, April 8- News Corp's Fox TV network raised the stakes in its battle with Web startup Aereo Inc on Monday, threatening to remove itself from the free airwaves entirely and become a cable channel if courts do not shut down the online TV service.

• Fox Threatens to Go to Cable Amid Aereo Dispute Monday, 8 Apr 2013 | 3:26 PM ET

  

  Fox could become a subscription service that customers would have to pay for if the courts are not able to protect its business from the start-up Aereo, News Corp. Chief Operating Officer Chase Carey said.

• News Corp's Carey says Fox could become subscription service Monday, 8 Apr 2013 | 1:56 PM ET

  April 8- News Corp could consider making its Fox broadcast television network a subscription service as a solution to keeping the channel off online platforms like Aereo, News Corp Chief Operating Officer Chase Carey said on Monday. Carey, speaking at a National Association of Broadcasters event in Las Vegas, called Aereo's use of Fox's signals "disappointing."

• PREVIEW-Tech upstarts threaten TV broadcast model Sunday, 7 Apr 2013 | 7:50 PM ET

  On April 1, a U.S. appeals court rejected a petition by the major broadcasters including Comcast's NBC, News Corp's FOX, Disney's ABC and CBS, to stop a service called Aereo, which offers a cut-rate TV subscription for consumers by capturing broadcast signals over thousands of antennas at one time.

• U.S. appeals court denies broadcasters' request to shut Aereo Monday, 1 Apr 2013 | 11:06 AM ET

  April 1- A U.S. appeals court on Monday denied broadcasters' request that Aereo Inc., an online television venture backed by billionaire Barry Diller, be temporarily shut down.

• UPDATE 1-US appeals court denies broadcaster request to shut Aereo Monday, 1 Apr 2013 | 12:17 AM ET

  April 1- A U.S. appeals court on Monday declined to temporarily shut down Aereo Inc, an online television venture backed by billionaire Barry Diller that broadcasters say is infringing their copyrights.

• COLUMN - Goodbye Globe, hello global New York Times Friday, 1 Mar 2013 | 9:21 AM ET

  The company was a diversified media outfit 10 years ago, owning eight television stations; two radio stations; 16 newspapers in addition to the New York Times, the Boston Globe and the International Herald Tribune; and a slew of websites.

• Closely watched Internet TV startup Aereo raises $38 mln Tuesday, 8 Jan 2013 | 4:15 PM ET

  Jan 8- Aereo, the Internet TV startup backed by the media company run by billionaire Barry Diller, has raised $38 million and will expand to 22 U.S. cities including Chicago, Houston and Miami. Diller is chairman of IAC, which led the latest investment round along with Highland Capital Partners.

• Andrew Sullivan to leave Daily Beast, start new company Wednesday, 2 Jan 2013 | 4:36 PM ET

  Jan 2- Popular political pundit Andrew Sullivan is leaving Tina Brown's Daily Beast to form an independent company for his blog The Dish. He wrote on Wednesday in a post on the Daily Beast that he decided to leave when his contract was up for negotiation, thanking Brown and Barry Diller, whose IAC/InterActivecorp backs the Daily Beast.