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Santa Monica-based Demand Media said Monday afternoon that it has lost its CFO, Mel Tang, who the company said will depart at the end of the year. The announcement was made as Demand Media reported its third quarter 2014 results. Demand Media reported $41.3 ‌in revenues for the third quarter, down from $50.7M READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Santa Monica-based Demand Media , the internet publishing firm headed by Richard Rosenblatt, reported its fourth quarter and fiscal 2010 results today, the first as a public company. Demand Media said it had revenues of $73.6M The firm also reported net income of $1.0M, versus $3.9M The firm reported net loss of $5.3M

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AUGUST 8, 2010

Santa Monica-based Demand Media , the online media firm run by Richard Rosenblatt, has finally filed for its long awaited IPO. According to Demand's IPO filing, the firm had a net loss of $6.00M on revenues of $114.0M For the year ended December 31, 2009, the firm had a net loss of $21.9M in the first six months of 2010.

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MAY 10, 2021

Lewis was the CEO of Blue Wave Media. Lewis reportedly prepared false balance sheets and income statements, which falsely overstated, among other things, Blue Wave Media's net worth, liquidity, and revenue, according to prosecuters. Lewis now faces up to 30 years in federal prison.

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MAY 5, 2011

Santa Monica-based Demand Media reported its results Thursday, saying that it had a net loss of $5.6 Demand Media said the revenues numbers were driven by continued momentum from its owned and operated sites. million on revenues of $79.5M. Revenues were up 48 percent compared to the $53.6M

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JULY 24, 2019

The social media and communication software developer announced the numbers in its second quarter 2019 financial results. Snap's revenues grew to $388M in Q2 of 2019, with a net loss of $255M for the quarter. Santa Monica-based Snap Inc. , READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 13, 2020

The funding was led by FirstMark Capital, and also included Causeway Media Partners, BDMI, Tusk Ventures, Inherent Group, Gaingels, Penni Thow's Copper and Guy Oseary. The company is led by CEO Matt Pohlson; the company says it has supported more than 350 charities to date, with $130M netted for those charities. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 5, 2017

Leaf Group disclosed the sale in its first quarter 2017 results, where it reported a net loss of $10.0M Leaf Group was formerly known as Demand Media. Leaf Group said it paid $12.0M for Deny Designs, split between $6.7M in cash plus approximately 215,000 shares of its common stock. Deny Designs was based in Denver, Colorado.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2012

WD said the new device, the My Net AC1300, is aimed at providing high bandwidth streaming of Netflix, YouTube, onilne games, and Skype, and includes automatic prioritization of entertainment services traffic. Irvine-based WD said today that it has launched a new, 802.11ac wireless router and bridge.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2008

Los Angeles-based GetBack Media , an online community focused on pop culture, said Thursday that it has raised $1.7M The firm said the funding was led by Beringea, along with high net worth individuals and entertainment leaders. in a Series A funding.

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APRIL 29, 2013

In the age of social media, are online discussions boards obsolete? The company said Monday that it is making old social media new again by reinventing online forums, adding such features as single sign-on of users, live search, a new mobile interface, and much more. ProBoards said the new release was four years in the making.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2014

Rightside , the domain name service company which is in the process of being spun out of Santa Monica-based Demand Media , said today that it has inked a deal to bring to new domains to the market: DANCE and.DEMOCRAT.

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JUNE 25, 2014

The sale netted the company $20M, which it will use to fund its U.S. Moviepilot''s web site focuses on film recommendations, film discovery, and the company also helps studios with social media campaigns. The move puts the company''s focused squarely on its Los Angeles operations.

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MAY 1, 2013

According to ACTIVE Network, it has appointed Jon Belmonte, former Chief Media Officer and Chief Operating Officer at the company as interim CEO, and has launched a search for a permanent CEO. Active Network is a provider of online sports registration and other related services.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2010

According to health care insurer Health Net and UCLA, the two are looking to study the use of Web-based, social media to improve preventative care and decrease emergency room visits among adolescents. UCLA and Health Net said the effort is being funded by a $1.1M UCLA and Health Net said the effort is being funded by a $1.1M

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JANUARY 23, 2013

The letter said that Sega agreed to purchase Relic; Koch Media agreed to purchase Volition and Metro; Crytek agreed to purchase Homefront; Take 2 agreed purchase Evolve and; Ubisoft agreed to purchase Montreal and South Park. Farrell said that THQ now expects those sales to close this week.

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OCTOBER 7, 2009

For this morning's interview, we sat down and talked with Nick Desai , CEO of Global Fitness Media , which runs FitOrbit (www.fitorbit.com), an online site looking to help users put together a fitness and connect with fitness trainers. Nick Desai: Jack Steinfeld--which everyone knows as Body by Jake--is the founder of Global Fitness Media.

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However, Snap continues to post steep losses, saying it had a net loss of $310M in Q1 of 2019, on revenues of $320M. Santa Monica-based Snap Inc. , the parent firm of Snapchat , reported its quarterly results on Tuesday afternoon, saying that its daily active users (DAU) increased by 2 percent quarter-to-quarter, to 190 million.

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AUGUST 10, 2017

announced its quarterly results for its second quarter, saying that it had a net loss of $443.0M Venice-based Snap Inc. on revenues of $181.67M for the quarter ended June 30th, 2017. The company's revenues increased from Q2 of 2016, when it had $71.798M in revenues. According to Snap, it now had daily active users (DAUs) of 173 million in Q2.

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AUGUST 13, 2010

the Sunnyvale-based semiconductor maker which has major operations in Westlake Village, has released its latest financials in an updated S-1 from the company, saying that it had had net income of $19.6M The firm had net income attributable to common stockholders of $2.2M. That compares to net income of $762K on revenues of $23.3M

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APRIL 4, 2013

A Santa Monica-based domain venture, Plan Bee LLC , has selected domain name auction site NameJet--a joint venture of Santa Monica-based Demand Media and Web.com--along with domain marketplace AfterNic--to power initial distribution for its new top level domain,BUILD. Plan Bee is headed by George Minardos. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2017

Snap said it is planning to sell as many as 230,000,000 shares of its stock, which would net it around $3.68 Venice, California-based Snap Inc. , the parent company of Snapchat , has set its estimated initial IPO pricing, saying this morning in a filing that it estimates its initial public offering price at betwen $14.00 and $16.00

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NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Shap continues to lose money, hand over first, reporting it had a net loss of $443.1M SNAP was already down around 12 percent in pre-market trading on Wednesday, falling from a close of $15.12 on Tuesday to around $13.33 in the three months ended September 30th, on revenues of $207.9M. billion in stock-based compensation expenses.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2009

Los Angeles-based Break Media , an online site which caters to males, announced today that it has signed a deal with liquor maker Southern Comfort to develop a branded content project, "Social Sportz Net".

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MAY 2, 2014

To get some insight into how those names are changing--we caught up with Steve Banfield , SVP and GM of Registrar Services over at Rightside (www.rightside.co) -- which is in the midst of spinning out from Santa Monica-based Demand Media. Steve Banfield: What will become Rightside has been part of Demand Media. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 7, 2010

Demand Media / Richard Rosenblatt / Los Angeles - Rosenblatt's last big win: MySpace, where he was Chairman, brokering its sale to News Corp. Getting lots of notice--and controversy--at Demand Media for its use of writers to create content specifically to attract web traffic. com, and was CEO of Vivendi Universal Net USA.

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MARCH 16, 2017

Earlier this week, Derek Norton , a long time advisor to the media, Internet, and technology industry in Los Angeles, announced a brand new venture capital fund called Watertower Ventures (www.watertowerventures.com). Derek Norton: I just closed on a new fund, worth $5M, which I raised from a group of high net worth, high profile LPs.

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MARCH 3, 2011

The net of it, is we're really in the big data business, and we're taking what was formerly a totally monolithic piece--a single DVD, or video game, or sports game--and converting that into something that is consumable in the social web. David Aronchick: The net of our jobs is really harnessing the demand.

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AUGUST 10, 2015

and also was heavily involved in Hollywood Media, which was acquired by The Times Mirror Company, in addition to a number of other companies. Tony Farwell:We're just about to hit our fourth year, and we have grown very quickly in terms of both net members and revenues. Tony told us a bit about GovX: Explain what GovX is about?

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FEBRUARY 15, 2011

One of my responsibilities at DreamWorks was new media. Jed Simon: We did something unique, is instead of raise a ton of money and then try to build our product and launch it, we soft launched last year, raised money from two high net worth individuals. I then moved to London to run the international distribution arm.

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MAY 30, 2019

com, and Vivendi Universal Net USA, where he was also CEO. Richards--a serial entrepreneur who has been involved in a number of technology companies here, including NTI Group (sold to Blackboard), Internships.com, MP3.com, Richards also has been an active angel investor in local startups. What is CareerArc?

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JUNE 25, 2009

We wrote all of the core components of our technology, from the ground up--even our SIP stack, OIP application, session-border, softswitch, and media server--which runs on standards-based, off-the shelf servers. The reverse also happens--if one of our users wants to call Skype users, they can do that purely on the net, without using the PSTN.

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MAY 18, 2010

The net-net, is they want to simplify their lives, and we've given them an application that allows them to simplify their life, save money, and share. The sharing aspect is a big deal, because we allow users to publish and publicize their projects on Facebook, or to tell others about great deals through Twitter or what have you.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

So we're connecting this nebulous net, of mostly private groups, but they can allow their members to reach out independently of the group to meet other people. For example, they might want to introduce their community in New York with their group in Boston. Finally, what's next on your radar? They're very excited.

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OCTOBER 14, 2011

There's been a huge push to engage local businesses, to get them involve din social media, but video has yet to catch up. Every business can benefit from video, whether they're a law firm, a restaurant, a hotel, or a plumber--we're casting a wide net on the kinds of businesses we work with. That's really our business plan.

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AUGUST 8, 2016

The area which probably is really attuned to your readers, is we also serve many mid-market, growth oriented companies that are looking to grow and acquire customers, with paid and earned digital channels, paid search, paid media, social, email, and organic SEO, as well as digital PR and content. That makes it more challenging.

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DECEMBER 9, 2008

The segment we play in is the performance-based media buying world, where the essential difference is that advertisers are paying for the results. Fortunately, the net effect of the economy for Hydra is good, because more advertisers are talking to customers through Hydra, and we're creating relationships successfully.

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