Making fun of Demand Media is so easy, even the Wall Street Journal can’t help biting its tongue:
[CEO Richard] Rosenblatt said the niche articles eHow writes about – How to Log In as Guest on Rosetta Stone, for example – may not be everyone’s cup of tea, but people want and need this Read More
“We have to look in the mirror and ask, ‘Is this what we want create for our users?’ We are polluting the internet.”
So says Jason Calicanis, former the scribe of Silicon Alley, who now runs one of the web’s biggest content farms, Mahalo.
In a great report from Danny Sulivan at Search Engine Read More
The up-and-coming search engine Blekko is pushing for a smarter kind of search. The site, which is making Google at least a little nervous, is attempting to train users to use “slash tags” to refine their queries.
“You know the sites you want search results from and you know the spammers, SEO gamers Read More
The last month has signaled the rebirth of the market for web IPOs. Facebook’s private offering set the tone, although the social networking company probably won’t go public for another year.
But investors eagerly snapped up shares of “content farm” king Demand Media Wednesday. Then on Thursday LinkedIn, the smaller, more professional social network, made Read More
A few days after the initial public offering of content farm Demand Media, a post at Virtualeconomics adds another layer of skepticism to what’s already a pretty dicey investment proposition. The way the eHow.com operator recognizes its costs has already prompted many a raised eyebrow, but now it appears that the company has Read More
Amazing news from The Wall Street Journal‘s Deal Journal blog: The New York Times Co., which operates the paper of record, apparently thought pretty hard about buying a big stake (49 percent!) in much-maligned, just-IPO’d content farm of journalistic misery and eHow.com operator Demand Media.
The surface discrepancy between the two companies was Read More
Shares of Demand Media, the content-farming company with unconventional accounting practices, rocketed 35 percent higher following the company’s initial public offering this morning.
From Fortune:
The offering included 8.9 million shares, with Demand selling 4.5 million shares at $17 per share. Existing shareholders sold another 4.4 million shares–a last-minute boost over the 3 million Read More
Content cultivator Demand Media is raising the per-share price of its initial public offering right before it begins trading on the New York Stock Exchange today, according to an SEC filing reported by paidContent. What a way to return to what had been a very dry well for internet-company IPO activity!
Demand, which Read More
The romance between tech and Wall Street is booming in a way not seen since the early 2000s. IPO fever is swirling around companies like Groupon and Facebook, fueling a growing hunger for all things social and mobile. So it is with some irony that the next onslaught of initial public offerings is being spearheaded Read More
Oft-maligned content giant and eHow.com operator Demand Media is about ready to go public in a share offering that could raise $138 million for the company, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission via Kara Swisher at All Things Digital.
The prospectus values the company at $1.24 billion, offering a Read More
