The results seem good: as of November, only 18% of the Manchester participants had had their IAC orders revoked for further offending.
Four Stanford graduate students attended the game wearing long blond wigs and holding a banner that read "Marecic's Mane-iacs".
There are no semiannual gatherings I know of where devoted readers — Dune-iacs?
Liberty filed a lawsuit seeking the removal of Barry Diller as IAC's boss, which IAC described as "preposterous", maintaining that "Liberty does not control" the company.Qtrax, a company promising free legal music-downloads on its website, launched its service with much ceremony in Cannes, but was soon embarrassed when the big recording labels said they had not negotiated licensing deals.
In the past year America's Hotwire, which specialises in discount hotel accommodation, was bought by Barry Diller's IAC; Travelbag, a British long-haul travel specialist, by ebookers; and Online Travel by Britain's Lastminute.Travel makes up the biggest chunk of business-to-consumer e-commerce, accounting for about one-third of online consumer spending.
But big companies continue to make extraordinary appointments: in 2011 IAC, a media conglomerate chaired by Barry Diller, appointed Chelsea Clinton, then a 31-year-old graduate student, to its board.
Some, such as the Intensive Alternative to Custody (IAC) operated in Manchester, require a lot of both offenders and supervisors.
IAC, which has around 42m visitors a month to its sites from the United States alone, will retain Ask Jeeves as an independent brand.See articleAIG, the world's biggest insurance company, sacked Howard Smith, its chief financial officer, and Christian Milton, a vice-president, for not co-operating with regulatory investigations into the firm's accounting practices.
Barry Diller, IAC's boss, wants to refocus his firm around its fastest-growing businesses, such as Ask.com.J. Sainsbury's share price plunged after an investment fund owned by the government of Qatar withdrew its offer to buy the British supermarket chain.
Mr Malone's Liberty Media has a 30% shareholding in IAC and 62% of the votes.
