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…

Here’s why Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) is advertising Bing on UK TV: it’s barely making the tiniest dent in Google’s search leadership. Though Google (NSDQ: GOOG) piled on eight tenths of the 617 million additional searches Brits made since Bing launched in June, Bing took just four percent of them, according…

Now branching out in to e-books after recently marking its first birthday, Tina Brown’s Daily Beast is starting to syndicate its webzine content out through third-party destinations. The IAC-backed current affairs zine has just inked deals to publish through MSN in the U.S. and UK, with further agreements with Yahoo…

There’s an art to running a story despite the denial. Independent.co.uk’s Feral Beast writes of Tina Brown’s 10-month old web magazine: “The Daily Beast is heading for Britain. After the success of Tina Brown‘s news and opinion site in the US, I can reveal that Brown has plans to launch…

IAC-owned TicketMaster is acquiring UK-based ticket reseller Get Me In, according to WSJ. The acquisition is the company’s second such purchase this month, as it recently announced a $265 million deal for TicketsNow. TicketMaster’s move into a space dominated by StubHub has raised concerns that TicketMaster, by controlling new and…

A British ad campaign has people accusing Ask.com of being a corporate wolf in radical activist’s clothing, the WSJ reports. The online, TV, radio, and outdoor campaign – no print ads, which were deemed too “corporate” by its agency, Publicis’ Fallon – is designed to appear as though a protest…

The drama at NTL, the UK cable operator, continues: it has approached Michael Jackson, the former Channel 4 CEO and now the head of Barry Diller’s content operations at IACI, to run ITV should its bid succeed, with support from Malcolm Wall, head of its content business, according to reports.…

Updated below: Barry Diller is on somewhat of a PR offensive for the last week or so, with stories cropping up in various media circles about his company’s future online expansion plans. The joint venture Comedy destination site with Huffington Post is about to launch soon, and some other new…

Single-digit rankings in today’s heated search environment doesn’t cut it for a general search engine and it isn’t enough for Ask Jeeves, espcially now that it’s owned by Barry Diller’s IAC/Interactive. CEO Steve Berkowitz talked to vnunet.com about the company’s expansion in thre U.S., UK and, coming up, across Europe,…