Panda

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.

Demand Media Beats the Street in Q1 Earnings and Promises to Clean Up Its Content Act

Kara Swisher in Media on May 5, 2011 at 1:39 pm PT

Demand Media handily beat Wall Street expectations in its first quarter results today, released after the market closed. The company reported revenue of $79.5 million and six cents a share in adjusted net income. Investors were expecting the company to report about $69.6 million in revenue for the three months, with four cents a share in profits. On a GAAP basis, net loss per share was 13 cents compared to 94 cents a year ago.

Kung Fu Panda Too? Demand Media Q1 Earnings All About Battling the Bears

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.