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Jordan Crook
April 9th, 2013

As Aereo Fights A Clone, Fox Threatens To Go To Cable If Courts Continue To Rule In Aereo’s Favor

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This is a story about multiple lawsuits, a clone, and yet another tale of David vs. Goliath, except this time David and Goliath are kind of the same person.

After winning in the courts against a cohort of major broadcast networks just last week, two major problems have befallen the streaming TV startup Aereo.

The first is a clone called AereoKiller LLC, which claims to operate under… → Read More

Mg Siegler
September 29th, 2010

Barry Diller: Everyone Needs To Stand Up And Protect Net Neutrality — Unleash The FCC!

Today at our TechCrunch Disrupt conference in San Francisco, IAC CEO Barry Diller took the stage for a fireside chat with our own Michael Arrington. They covered a lot of topics, but the first thing Diller keyed in on was the most important: net neutrality.

“All of you have to get out there and start arguing for this strongly,” Diller emphatically said. He clearly feels very strongly about this… → Read More

Erick Schonfeld
September 17th, 2010

Barry Diller Is Going To Give Us A Piece Of His Mind At Disrupt

One of my favorite Barry Diller stories comes from Clicker CEO Jim Lanzone, who used to work for Diller when he was the CEO of Ask. Diller was driving Lanzone in a white luxury convertible to a conference in New York City where he was speaking. He parked the convertible in the middle of Times Square, got out of the car, put on his sunglasses, and looked at Lanzone to see what was holding him up. → Read More

Leena Rao
March 13th, 2009

The 2009 List Of Tech Billionaires And How Much They Lost

Forbes released its list of the world’s billionaires and it looks like the U.S. tech billionaires took a pretty hefty hit from the economic crisis. The 40 tech billionaires we identified on the list collectively lost $81.5 billion compared to their standing in last year’s list. That is a drop in the bucket compared to the $1.4 trillion in net worth that disappeared from the entire Forbes’ list… → Read More