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Liberty Media Corporation announced that Greg Maffei, President and CEO of Liberty Media Corporation, will be presenting at the Citi 20th Annual Global Entertainment, Media, and Telecommunications Conference, on Wednesday, January 6th at 2:55 p.m., Pacific Time at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco, CA.

STOCK MARKETING INC PRESENTS : Medefile International, Inc., Windtamer Corp., SouthPeak Interactive Corp., Biostar Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Liberty Star Uranium & Metals Corp., Quepasa Corp.

There was no economic data of note released in the region today. The Dow Jones Industrial Average advanced +26.98 points to 10547.08 points.

As new market updates : continue to fuel the current trading trend, Wall Street Sense : analysts have issued valuable analysis on the following companies: The Home Depot Inc.

Yelp backed out of acquisition talks with Google over the weekend, according to two people briefed on the discussions.

IAC has appointed Slide media business GM Shravan Goli to head up its Dictionary.com online reference business, which also includes Thesaurus.com and Reference.com. Goli is replacing Doug Leeds, who was named president of Ask.com in the U.S. in October; Leeds had led Dictionary.com in the aftermath of IAC's acquisition of the company for roughly ...

Dictionary.com, which is an affiliate of search engine Ask.com, said Tuesday that it named Shravan Goli as its president.

Now that the digital equivalent of a super-vac, MySpace CEO Owen Van Natta, has sucked up some decent music start-ups--Imeem and iLike--for a song, to bolster the social-networking site's efforts to expand into an entertainment portal, what's next? According to several sources, the News Corp.

MySpace and News Corp. Eye Flixster [UPDATED] Now that the digital equivalent of a super-vac, MySpace CEO Owen Van Natta, has sucked up some decent music start-ups-Imeem and iLike-for a song, to bolster the social networking site's efforts to expand into an entertainment portal, what's next? According to several sources, the News Corp.

For well over a decade now, we have been flipping through glossy photographs and watching videos of Frank Gehry carefully studying crumpled wads of paper, selecting which one to slide across some large drawing table to an assistant-in-waiting, who will scan it into the computer and, with Gehry, endeavor to make and call it architecture.

He is a Senior Fellow of... Full Bio Fred Phillips A meeting of the San Diego Software Industry Council, the subject: What will Web 3.0 look like? "Why don't we know?" asked one venture capitalist.

During the latest IAC 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.

Sat Dec 5, 2009 1:55am EST - A boy dressed as Superman runs past a billboard for presidential candidate Ljubomir Frckovski from the opposition party SDSM in Skopje, Macedonia April 1, 2009.

Scott Garell gets lots of questions. Billions of them, in fact. As president of Oakland-based Ask Networks, whose centerpiece is the Internet search engine that specializes in answering questions instead of searching keywords, Garell is responsible for wringing revenue from people's confusion and curiosity.

AOL Inc. Chief Executive Officer Tim Armstrong is on a mission to show that the company isna t some dot-com has-been selling Web access and e-mail. Ita s a digital- media company with 80 Web sites churning out everything from personal finance advice to bedroom tips for women.

Comcast Corp. will acquire a 51% stake in General Electric Co.'s NBC Universal Inc.

IAC/InterActiveCorp CEO Barry Diller said he has been approached by various parties about purchasing Ask.com, but he is less interested in divesting the search engine as a stand-alone business than consolidating it with another search company.

General Electric Co and Comcast Corp are set to announce a joint venture on Thursday morning that would give the cable company eventual control of NBC Universal in this year's biggest media deal.

Users receive a grammar lesson while searching for the difference between "affect" and "effect"; Synonyms for "greedy" on the rise By: PR Newswire Dec.

Highlights from Scott Kirsner's Innovation Economy blog. For the full blog, visit www.boston.com/innovation . Planning the perfect party.