Digital gave Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) a big sales boost from the previous quarter, but not enough to reverse revenue declines or prevent its net loss from deepening. The bookseller is currently mulling over a sale of the company and is embroiled in a proxy fight with activist investor…

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Barnes & Noble	Release		2.5%	-608%

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John Foley, who most recently was serving as CEO of IAC-owned comparison shopping site Pronto and was also heading up Evite and Gifts.com, is leaving IAC (NSDQ: IACI) after 14 years at the company. IAC says Foley is being succeeded at Pronto by Darren MacDonald who was previously chief operating…

Despite the big push that Ask.com’s latest relaunch got this week, parent company IAC (NSDQ: IACI) doesn’t expect it to set the world on fire. During the company’s Q2 conference call, analysts had a lot of questions about the IAC search vehicle, which is now emphasizing direct questions and answers…

Maybe IAC (NSDQ: IACI) isn’t so crazy to think that its Ask.com search business can compete in a Google (NSDQ: GOOG) world. Higher search ad dollars as well as help from dating site Match.com helped send revenues higher in Q2 for the company. Profits were impacted negatively by the sale…

		EPS*	Rev. vs Q209	Net Inc. vs Q209
IAC	Release		19%	67%

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IAC’s search site Ask.com has tried numerous incarnations to capture some of the traffic and advertising gold possessed by Google (NSDQ: GOOG). Last year, it tried coupons. Before that, it promised more relevance, more engagement and less clicks. This time, it’s going back to its “Ask Jeeves” roots, with answers…

Local guide network Citysearch LLC will now be known as CityGrid Media, as the IAC (NSDQ: IACI) unit looks beyond its flagship site, which will remain unchanged. While a change in nomenclature is fairly mundane, the shift from Cityseach to CityGrid, which up to now was the site network’s local…

Jason Rapp, the former IAC (NSDQ: IACI) SVP of M&A who left the company a year-and-a-half ago, is joining Jason Calacanis’ Mahalo as president. Rapp was in charge of IAC’s dealmaking for two years until he took over as CEO of IAC’s Gifts.com unit in mid-2008. He left after Gifts.com…

Although magazines are getting a breather from the ad recovery, the realization that marketers’ spending isn’t going to make a full comeback is pushing publishers into arrangements they steadfastly avoided in the recent past. Case in point: Condé Nast’s Glamour, though one of its biggest attractions to advertisers, is now…

Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) CEO Carol Bartz, never one to shy away from a microphone, was seemingly everywhere today: from her morning press conference with the CEO of Nokia (NYSE: NOK) to discuss their new partnership, then on to CNBC’s Sqawk On The Street, and finishing up with a noon fireside…

Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) is outsourcing yet another one of its businesses to a former rival. The company says IAC’s Match.com will now be the “exclusive online dating provider and display advertiser” on Yahoo and will be linked to from the Yahoo homepage; the two companies say they are in the…

IAC’s Mindspark Interactive division has bought a majority stake in diet tracking site DailyBurn. The site, which bills itself as the “fastest-growing diet and fitness tracking site on the web,” lets users calculate how much they are eating via a food database and create exercise plans; visitors can also compete…

Match.com has sent letters to several rival dating sites demanding that they stop circulating what the company considers to be false statistics about their services. We reported yesterday that Match.com had asked PlentyOfFish to stop making some claims about its site—but Match.com CEO Greg Blatt tells us the company sent…

Count IAC (NSDQ: IACI) Chairman and CEO Barry Diller among those who believe the iPad will provide a real boost to the online media business. “I haven’t met a single person who has got one and doesn’t smile every time they use it,” he said during the company’s earnings call.…

IAC (NSDQ: IACI) said a better performance at its Ask.com search unit helped drive a larger-than-expected jump in revenue during its most recent quarter. All of IAC’s business units—with the exception of Match.com—posted double-digit percentage increases in revenue. Operating income was also up across the board. IAC credited the slight…

		EPS*	Rev. vs Q0109	Net Inc. vs Q0109
IAC	Release		16%	34%

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The online dating wars are getting ugly. IAC’s Match.com is demanding that newer rival PlentyOfFish—which is now the top dating site globally—stop making a very long list of claims about its service. Among the statements made by PlentyOfFish that Match.com doesn’t think are true: “20,000 people sign up per day;…

IAC (NSDQ: IACI) and Dow Jones (NYSE: NWS) are shutting down FiLife today, paidContent has learned and IAC has confirmed. We reported last month that the plug could be pulled but sources then insisted that all options were being explored. Today, the staff is learning those options have run out.…

PubMatic, the sell-side ad platform, has raised $7.5 million in a third round funding. The Palo Alto company has now raised $18 million since launching three years ago. The latest round was led by existing investor Helion Venture Partners, with previous backers Draper Fisher Jurvetson and Nexus Venture Partners, also…

More consolidation in the online dating industry, this time in the U.K.: EasyDate has bought up Allegran—which operates four of the top 10 dating websites in the U.K.—from Associated Northcliffe Digital, the digital division of British newspaper publisher Daily Mail (LSE: DMGT) & General Trust. No word on a purchase…

Less than two months after talking up the turnaround at Dow Jones-IAC (NSDQ: IACI) personal finance JV FiLife, paidContent has learned the site’s continued existence is no certainty. It survived the multiple trimmings as Barry Diller cut back on IAC’s portfolio of emerging businesses, but the company is now exploring…