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Demand Media’s Q1 Earnings: Kung-Goog Panda Did Not Kill Us!

Kara Swisher in News on May 8 at 2:16 pm PT

Take that, Po.

Exclusive: The Billion-Dollar Inside Story of How Demand Media Almost Went Private Last Week (And Then Didn’t)

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.

Google’s Ad Company (Which Isn’t Google) Explains What’s Up With Those Chrome Ads

Peter Kafka in Media on January 3 at 6:11 am PT

No big deal, says Unruly Media CEO Scott Button — we do this stuff all the time.

Facebook’s Overhaul Gives MOG a Rocket Ride

Peter Kafka in Media on November 1, 2011 at 3:30 am PT

A 4x leap for the music subscription service in a month. Now it has to keep those users, add more, and eventually get a few of them to pay.

Mahalo Lays Off 25 Percent for Shift to Apps From Video

Liz Gannes in News on October 26, 2011 at 9:37 am PT

Mahalo, the often-pivoted company run by well-known entrepreneur Jason Calacanis, laid off a quarter of its staff earlier this month.

Viral Video: The iPhone 5 as Love Potion #9

Kara Swisher in Mobile on October 4, 2011 at 12:30 am PT

Thank goodness it’s here, so we can move on to speculating about the iPhone 6.

Demand Media Q2 Call Liveblog: Spam-a-Not

Kara Swisher in News on August 9, 2011 at 2:20 pm PT

Rachael Ray might dole out spam recipes on Demand Media, but the company said on its Q2 conference call that its business was not hurt by the spam-killers of Google.

Google: No, Government Investigations Have Not Frozen Our Manual Search Tweaks

John Paczkowski in News on May 27, 2011 at 2:05 pm PT

A report claiming that manual updates to Google’s search results have been frozen because of possible government investigations is entirely untrue, the search sovereign says.

Demand CEO Richard Rosenblatt Talks Panda

Kara Swisher in Media on May 9, 2011 at 6:29 am PT

Last week, after he turned in better-than-expected earnings and tried to explain to a worried Wall Street how the search algorithm changes at Google, called Panda, were significant but not devastating to his business, BoomTown had a short phone interview with Demand Media CEO Richard Rosenblatt.

Liveblogging Demand Media's Q1 Earnings: Perky Perfecting!

Kara Swisher in Media on May 5, 2011 at 2:13 pm PT

Today, after Demand Media beat Wall Street expectations, its cheerful execs got on the horn with investors to explain how it plans to beat the Panda. That would be the beastly name for Google’s rejiggering of its search algorithm, in order to rid search results of poor quality content. BoomTown liveblogged the event, of course.