IAC Plans to Expand Internet in China
Posted on: Friday, 23 November 2007, 15:00 CST
IAC, the U.S. media conglomerate, announced plans in Beijing Friday to spend $100 million on a new Internet business in China.
Barry Diller, chairman and chief executive of the new company, told reporters the operation may be up and running within a year.
He said it will be a media and advertising Web site rather than a transaction-based business, and he plans to bring the IAC's search engine Ask.com to China within two years.
To date, IAC has invested $200 million in China, which has a reported 162 million users, the second-largest Internet user base in the world, the Wall Street Journal said.
IAC announced earlier this month that it will divide the $9 billion firm into five separate companies, with Diller at the helm of its 30 Internet businesses, including city-guide Web site Citysearch and personals Web site Match.com.
Source: United Press International
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