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IAC in talks to buy Yahoo Personals

By | April 30, 2009, 2:29am PDT

IAC/InterActive Corp. chief Barry Diller said the company is in talks to buy Yahoo Personals to augment its Match.com business. 

The comments were made on IAC’s first quarter conference call (Techmeme). Here’s what Diller said:

We are very interested. We’d love to have Yahoo! Personals and I think there is some initial discussions about that, whether they’re going away or not is of course enormously speculative. But I think, Yahoo! has said that it’s not an absolute core asset their future and it is core to us. We’re  a leader in the category. So, we’re very aggressive behind Match and any possibilities for increasing its future money in the world.

Yahoo has been looking to shed non-core properties and IAC could be a buyer of other assets too.

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Larry Dignan is Editor in Chief of ZDNet and SmartPlanet as well as Editorial Director of ZDNet's sister site TechRepublic. He was most recently Executive Editor of News and Blogs at ZDNet. Prior to that he was executive news editor at eWeek and news editor at Baseline. He also served as the East Coast news editor and finance editor at CNET News.com. Larry has covered the technology and financial services industry since 1995, publishing articles in WallStreetWeek.com, Inter@ctive Week, The New York Times, and Financial Planning magazine. He's a graduate of the Columbia School of Journalism and the University of Delaware.

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control of my personal info any more than i am having M$ in control.

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