Drake Martinet in News on July 15, 2011 at 8:00 am PT
There’s an old maxim in fundraising: It’s better to get one dollar from 100 supporters than it is to get $100 from one supporter. Or you can get a new online fundraising start-up called Rally to take advantage of the network effects of your real supporters.
Kara Swisher in News on February 24, 2011 at 11:12 am PT
Yesterday, BoomTown paid a long overdue visit on the Mountain View, Calif., HQ of Mozilla, the unusual public-private company that makes the Firefox browser, to chat with its (relatively) new CEO Gary Kovacs (pictured here).
There is a lot to talk about with the new exec, especially the near-to-official launch of Firefox 4, the increasing competition with Google and its Chrome efforts and where Mozilla goes next (mobile).
Kara Swisher in News on October 29, 2010 at 8:18 am PT
Demand Media, which posted its regulatory S-1 filing in August, filed an amended version today that is likely to allow it to move quickly to an initial public offering.
It now must now wait for the Securities and Exchange Commission to approve the filing, after the which the execs of the Santa Monica, Calif.-based Demand will immediately to go on a road show for several weeks to try to convince investors to jump on board.
Then, if there’s enough interest, the IPO is likely to come before the holidays.
Kara Swisher in News on October 8, 2010 at 12:10 am PT
A national poll released today by Common Sense Media asking how well social networks protect kids online produced an answer that should come as a shock to exactly no one:
Not very well, at least according to parents.
A full 75 percent of them gave social networking sites such as Facebook a negative rating for the task.
Kara Swisher in D8 on June 24, 2010 at 6:07 am PT
As promised,
All Things Digital is posting the full videos from our eighth
D: All Things Digital conference, held earlier this month.
Here’s one of the most interesting pairings at
D8–Richard Rosenblatt of Demand Media, the Google-savvy content engine, and former Wall Street Journal edit chief Paul Steiger of ProPublica, a nonprofit that produces hefty investigative pieces online and off.
The debate over the future of journalism is a key one over the next several years, as new content models emerge and old ones wither.
Peter Kafka in D8 on June 3, 2010 at 9:10 am PT
What’s the future of the media business? Demand Media, the Google-savvy “content farm” that generates thousands of computer-assigned, low-cost Web items a day? Or ProPublica, a nonprofit that produces deep-dive investigative pieces and publishes them on its own site and in the pages of high-profile partners?
Good guess: Some of both. But let’s allow both parties to make their own case.
Kara Swisher in News on May 11, 2010 at 3:22 pm PT
John Lilly, the well-regarded CEO of Mozilla, is preparing to give up his post at the open-source software nonprofit foundation, which is also a for-profit start-up.
Lilly is moving to Greylock Partners as a venture partner, sources added, although the affable entrepreneur could eventually end up doing a start-up.
While Mozilla makes a number of products, it is best known for its Firefox browser, whose share has steadily increased since it debuted in late 2004.
Kara Swisher in News on April 20, 2010 at 7:30 am PT
This seems to have been a busy week for Demand Media CEO and founder Richard Rosenblatt, with news of a big-banker hiring in a pending IPO of his social media start-up and the possible sale of a digital marketing company where he serves as chairman.
What’s next from the energetic digital exec is anybody’s guess.
Kara Swisher in D8 on April 20, 2010 at 7:30 am PT
This seems to have been a busy week for Demand Media CEO and founder Richard Rosenblatt, with news of a big-banker hiring in a pending IPO of his social media start-up and the possible sale of a digital marketing company where he serves as chairman.
What’s next from the energetic digital exec is anybody’s guess.
