AOL Inc. Chief Executive Tim Armstrong is on a mission to show that the company isn't some dot-com has-been selling Web access and e-mail. Full Article at St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Speaking at the Reuters Global Media Summit, industry veteran Barry Diller worried about the future of the U.S. as a "force for good," while satellite radio chief Mel Karmazin expressed concern about the lack of focus on job creation. Full Article at International Business Times

Dec. 4 (Bloomberg) -- AOL Inc. Chief Executive Officer Tim Armstrong is on a mission to show that the company isn’t some dot-com has-been selling Web access and e-mail. Full Article at Bloomberg.com

Barry Diller has a problem. The IAC/InterActiveCorp head apparently has too much cash on hand -- nearly $2 billion -- and doesn't know what to do with all of it. Full Article at MediaPost.com

In what might just be a bit of posturing, Barry Diller told the Reuters Global Media Summit in New York that he’s turned away companies interested in buying Ask.com and thinks consolidation with another search company is the way to go. Full Article at Search Engine Land

During the latest IAC (NSDQ: IACI) earnings call when CEO Barry Diller mentioned an interest in consolidating Ask.com with another search player, the quick conclusion was the #4 search engine is for sale. Full Article at paidContent.org

IAC/Interactive (IACI) CEO Barry Diller today said he has been approached by various parties about the potential sale of Ask.com, but that he is more interested in partnering with another search engine than in selling the business outright. Full Article at Barron's Online

Jeffrey Immelt cost General Electric an extra $300 million to acquire Vivendi's 20 percent stake in NBC Universal -- and he owes it all to Barry Diller. Full Article at New York Post

Joost acquired by online ad company Adconion NEW YORK — The struggling online video startup Joost (juice-st) is being sold to an online advertising company that plans to continue operating its Web site under the same name. Full Article at Simple Thoughts

TINA Brown has hired a for mer top executive from Felix Dennis' laddie empire to be her new president. Full Article at New York Post

Notional wants to be taken seriously. That might be a little tough ordinarily for a new cross-platform video production company birthed by a website called CollegeHumor but Notional has great genes and, in Barry Diller, a godfather with serious pull. Full Article at paidContent.org

Notional, a new production company housed at Barry Diller's IAC, unveiled its initial TV development and production slate Wednesday with several concepts looking to bridge TV and the Internet, such as a dance competition format called Ready, Set, Dance. Full Article at MediaWeek

Notional, a new production company housed at Barry Diller's IAC, unveiled its initial TV development and production slate Wednesday with several concepts looking to bridge TV and the Internet, such as a dance competition format called "Ready, Set,... Full Article at Huffington Post

If you’re the number four search engine in a market that is looking like it’s going to be about two (maybe three) players in the long run, what do you do? Full Article at Search Engine Land

Notional, a new production shingle from Barry Diller's IAC, has unveiled its initial programming and development slate, which includes series at Food Network and HGTV. Full Article at Variety

IAC Chairman Barry Diller touched off a wave of acquisition speculation over Ask.com in the parent company's third-quarter earnings call, and now Wall Street analysts and search engine marketing executives are supporting such a sale to none other than... Full Article at Red Herring

The book party for Too Big to Fail was a window into Sorkin’s world. No one tends to love a journalist after a story is written, especially one about a failure with as many fathers as the financial crisis. But Sorkin, remarkably, avoided this problem. Full Article at Ezra Klein

Back in 1986, when G.E. acquired NBC, the jokesmost of them from within, courtesy of Johnny Carson and David Lettermancentered on the question of what the hell a toaster company knew about broadcasting. Full Article at New York Magazine

The initial public offering (IPO) market continues to get stronger. Venture capitalists investing in fledgling businesses are not the only ones with billions of dollars to spend. Full Article at MediaPost.com