Tricia Duryee in Commerce on May 18 at 7:30 am PT
Which will be the next tech company to go public after Facebook? That’s an easy one: Kayak.com.
Tricia Duryee in Commerce on May 9 at 12:07 pm PT
FarmVille continues to be the company’s breadwinner, but other franchises, like Mafia Wars, have fallen off the charts.
Kara Swisher in News on April 28 at 11:02 am PT
According to sources close to the situation, Demand Media was deep into discussions with a private equity firm to complete a deal that would have taken the online content company private for double its current value.
Tricia Duryee in Commerce on April 26 at 1:56 pm PT
Zynga beat analysts expectations for the first quarter, despite reporting a loss of $85 million.
Kara Swisher in News on April 23 at 12:13 pm PT
Will the new results cause investors to worry?
Kara Swisher in News on April 17 at 2:06 pm PT
New Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson is making list and taking names.
Kara Swisher in News on April 17 at 1:15 pm PT
An upside non-surprise as we await pearls of wisdom from new CEO Scott Thompson.
Kara Swisher in Media on May 5, 2011 at 6:06 am PT
Later today, Demand Media will report its first-quarter earnings, its second outing after its IPO earlier this year.
But what most will be paying more mind to will be what the content company’s top execs have to say about the impact of search algorithm updates at Google–codenamed “Panda”–to its various Web offerings.
Kara Swisher in News on May 3, 2011 at 10:28 pm PT
Jeff Jordan, the president and CEO of OpenTable who unexpectedly stepped down from his job today at the online restaurant reservation leader, is set to take a job at a major venture firm in Silicon Valley.
While Benchmark Capital was a big funder of OpenTable before it went public in 2009, sources said the likeliest home for the well-known Internet player–Jordan has also been a major exec at eBay–is Andreessen Horowitz.
Kara Swisher in News on April 27, 2011 at 11:35 am PT
April showers bring…well, a bad month for the still-young stock of online content maker Demand Media.
After a successful IPO in January, shares of the Santa Monica, Calif., company have only seen gloomy weather after algorithm changes at Google–with the seemingly dulcet code name of “Panda” and designed to weed out poorly made content–started to impact some of its traffic.
