Kara Swisher in News on April 17, 2011 at 11:29 pm PT
Tonight, Demand Media–in reaction to a new study showing that its flagship eHow site had now gotten much more negatively impacted by Google’s rejiggering of its search algorithm than previously–released a statement and blog post about the tempest.
The content maker’s unsurprising verdict on itself: We’re okay, thanks for asking!
Peter Kafka in Media on March 28, 2011 at 5:30 am PT
What do you do once you sell your digital media business for $315 million?
Start another digital media business! Ken Lerer, Brian Bedol, Patrick Keane and Jim Pallotta bet on video with Bedrock Properties.
Kara Swisher in News on March 15, 2011 at 4:26 pm PT
Last week, Yahoo’s advertising unit got the once-over from its new sales head Wayne Powers. And, this week, its new Audience unit head Mickie Rosen is making a series of executives moves to shake up its powerful news, sports and entertainment sites.
Kara Swisher in News on February 28, 2011 at 8:02 am PT
Yahoo’s Luke Beatty said he is not worried.
“We welcome the change,” he insisted about Google taking aim last Friday at so-called “content farms,” producers of low-quality content that spam up the Web and the search giant’s results. “And we endorse what Google is doing 100 percent.”
That’s ironic, given among those allegedly hit hardest by the tweaking of its famous algorithm–based on early, and perhaps questionable, surveys–is Yahoo’s Associated Content.
Its founder talked to BoomTown about the impact.
Peter Kafka in Media on February 25, 2011 at 8:08 am PT
Google is going to crush Demand Media!
So why aren’t investors running for the exits?
Kara Swisher in News on December 2, 2010 at 8:36 am PT
Andrew Siegel–Yahoo’s head of corporate development, who is in charge of its mergers and acquisitions strategy–is leaving the company, according to sources.
The move comes after Siegel–who has made some very prescient calls about game-changing acquisition targets for the company–has become increasingly frustrated in getting them completed.
Siegel’s exit is part of a long line of departures of top talent under the leadership of CEO Carol Bartz. Yahoo has no replacement for him as yet.
Kara Swisher in News on November 24, 2010 at 11:30 am PT
Earlier this week, BoomTown went downtown to the San Francisco HQ of Bleacher Report, one of the many interesting efforts trying to change the way content is made and distributed.
Bleacher Report, no surprise, is focused on sports, and competes with sites such as Yardbarker and SB Nation.
All take different approaches, with Bleacher Report delivering a grassroots platform for both professional and hobbyist writers who want give their take on any topic about college and professional sports, from the latest draft to explaining what’s the deal with “Fear the Beard.”
Liz Gannes in Social on November 23, 2010 at 5:00 am PT
Facebook has a well-defined M&A strategy of bringing in talent from young, small companies and shutting down their products. But there’s also a pattern emerging for what happens to that talent. Acqhired CEOs hold prominent roles on Facebook’s product team; nearly every recent Facebook product launch seems to have been introduced by an acqhired employee.
Kara Swisher in News on November 15, 2010 at 12:01 am PT
Yahoo is debuting a new offering for its hundreds of million of users, which takes the Demand Media model and notches up the volume by presumably allowing a thousand flowers to bloom.
Or, more to the point, blab.
The Internet giant is “inviting people to contribute to many of its most popular sites with the launch of the Yahoo! Contributor Network, a new platform for people to publish their creative content on Yahoo!.”
