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JUNE 24, 2013

Santa Monica-based Demand Media has acquired Society6 , an online e-commerce marketplace centered around artists, the company announced Monday afternoon, as part of an effort to expand its content and media platform. artist acquisition merger marketplace ecommerce society6 media demand' READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2013

In a surprise move, Santa Monica-based Demand Media said Tuesday afternoon that it plans to explore separating its domain name and content businesses into two, independent, publicly traded companies.

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DECEMBER 15, 2009

Santa Monica-based Demand Media has been sued by Chip Meyers, the founder of Mania.com, according to a report today from paidContent.org. from Demand, over Demand Media' acquisition of his site in 2007. Tags: demand media lawsuit chip meyers mania merger acquisition legal.

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AUGUST 9, 2011

Santa Monica-based Demand Media , the online publishing empire run by Richard Rosenblatt, said Tuesday afternoon that it has acquired two companies, plus renewed a deal with Google. Financial details of the two acquisition was not disclosed. IndieClick was headed by Peter Luttrell, and RSS Graffiti by Ryan Hoffman.

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JANUARY 7, 2013

Santa Monica-based Demand Media announced this morning that it has acquired domain registrar Name.com. Demand Media said that Name.com will help the firm as it prepares for the released of new top level domains (TLDs) this year. Demand Media said that Name.com is known for its strog retail footprint.

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MARCH 3, 2011

Santa Monica-based Demand Media said this morning that it has acquired CoveritLive , a developer of a live blogging platform used to provide real time commentary, reader polling, and questions and answers on live events. Demand Media was already a strategic investor in CoveritLive.

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AUGUST 22, 2011

Santa Monica-based Demand Media has issued $707,254 in stock as part of the acquisition of a company, according to a regulatory filing from the firm Monday. According to the filing, the firm issued $707,254 in equity, in conjunction with a merger or acquisition on July 1st. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 26, 2011

Santa Monica-based Demand Media , the online publishing network run by Richard Rosenblatt, had a huge reception in the public markets Wednesday, closing up 32 percent in its initial public offering. Demand, which debuted on the NYSE as DMD this morning, priced at $17.00, but soon shot up to as high as $25.00

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OCTOBER 29, 2010

Santa Monica-based Demand Media is inching closer to its IPO debut, saying in an updated S-1 this morning that it plans to offer 7.5 Demand said in the filing it plans to sell 4,500,000 shares of the stock in the offering, with selling stockholders selling an additional 3,000,000 shares. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 27, 2011

The IPO this week of Santa Monica-based Demand Media has drawn widespread attention, with a number of articles yesterday talking about how the firm's market cap exceeded the New York Times Company after the IPO. billion, compared to Demand Media's (DMD) $1.4

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JANUARY 12, 2011

Santa Monica-based Demand Media , the online publishing firm headed by Richard Rosenblatt, said today in an S-1 filing that it expects its IPO to be between $14.00 Demand Media runs such sites as LiveStrong and eHow, along with a network of other media and content focused sites. and $16.00

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JANUARY 13, 2014

Santa Monica-based Demand Media announced this morning that it has filed paperwork required for the planned separation and spinout of its domain name business. According to Demand Media, its new subsidiary, Rightside Group, Ltd. , According to Demand Media, its new subsidiary, Rightside Group, Ltd. , READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 26, 2011

Santa Monica-based Demand Media surged in its IPO debut Wednesday morning on the NYSE, rising as high as $25.00 Demand Media, which is headed by Richard Rosenblatt, operates a network of content focused sites, including LiveStrong.com and eHow. Demand Media is now trading on the NYSE as DMD. in morning trading.

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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 for Q4 of 2010, up 33 percent from the $55.5M in revenues from Q4 of 2009. for all of 2010.

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JANUARY 27, 2011

Santa Monica-based Demand Media , riding high on a successful IPO debut Wednesday, said Thursday that its underwriters have exercised their option to purchase an additional 675,000 shares from Demand Media, and 660,000 shares from selling stockholders at its initial offering price. shares in its IPO, bumping that to 8.9M

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JANUARY 31, 2011

Santa Monica-based Demand Media said this morning that it received approximately $77.2M Demand's IPO offering was for 10,235,000 shares of common stock at $17.00 per share, with 5,175,000 shares of the offering coming directly from Demand Media itself, and the rest from other shareholders. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 26, 2011

Santa Monica-based Demand Media said late Tuesday evening that it has priced its IPO, as well as increased its IPO offering size, and will sell 8,900,000 shares of its common stock at $17.00 Demand Media had initially filed for its IPO in August. per share, and above the initial 7,500,000 shares. Morgan Stnaley & Co.,

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AUGUST 22, 2011

Santa Monica-based Demand Media , the newly public online publisher run by Richard Rosenblatt, said this morning that it has launched a $25M, share repurchase program. Demand Media was recently trading at around $7.19 per share, well below its IPO debut price of $17.00 READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 20, 2011

Santa Monica-based Demand Media , the online publishing firm headed by Richard Rosenblatt, is expected to hit the public markets late next week, according to a report today from AllThingsD. Demand Media priced its IPO on January 12th, saying it hopes to debut on the NYSE at between $14.00 and $16.00 and $16.00

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JULY 20, 2009

Santa Monica-based Demand Media , the well funded Internet content startup headed by Richard Rosenblatt, the former chairman of MySpace, has acquired the domain name Demand.com. Demand Media acquired the domain name from Phoenix-based inter123, a firm owned by Jeffrey Peterson, former founder of Quepasa.com. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 17, 2010

Santa Monica-based Cornerstone On Demand , which recently filed for an IPO on the NASDAQ Global Market as CSOD, has updated its IPO filings documents with the SEC. due to the change in the fair value of its preferred stock warrant liabilities.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2008

Santa Monica-based Demand Media , the media firm run by Richard Rosenblatt, former Chairman of MySpace, said Wednesday that it has launched a new service which automatically pulls up and links to related content on web pages. Pluck was a developer of social media software for web publishers. READ MORE>>

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

Santa Monica-based Demand Media said on Friday that it has acquired UK-based The Other Art Fair , an art fair for emerging artists. Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced. Demand Media is led by Sean Moriarty. The Other Art Fair is based in London. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2011

Those include a rumor of an IPO at music service Pandora , which is based in Northern California, which was co-founded by UberTwitter's Jon Kraft, a successful IPO for Los Angeles-based Demand Media last month, not to mention companies filed like Santa Monica's Boingo Wireless , San Diego's Fallbrook Technologies , Santa Monica-based Cornerstone On (..)

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FEBRUARY 5, 2018

Santa Monica-based Leaf Group , the publicly traded consumer Internet company best known for running such sites as Saatchi Art, Society6, EHow, and Livestrong, said it is looking to offer and sell approximately $22M in shares of its common stock. Leaf Group says it does not have any specific acquisitions in mind. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 22, 2009

Santa Monica-based Demand Media , the Internet publishing and content effort run by Richard Rosenblatt, reported today that the firm has seen more than one billion video streams across its network of sites and branded YouTube channels. Tags: demand media video content publishing youtube. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

The list of Southern California companies who have filed, have been rumored to file, or have successfully completed IPOs has gotten a little longer this morning, after Santa Monica-based Cornerstone OnDemand filed for an IPO. Tags: southern california initial public offering exit merger acquisition.

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JANUARY 14, 2011

The filing comes on the heels of Demand Media 's kickoff of its roadshow to Wall Street on Wednesday, after it set an initial pricing range on its own IPO offering. The filing of an IPO by Los Angeles-based Boingo Wireless on Friday seems to indicate the interest in public markets by venture-backed, Southern California firms has not abated.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2015

Santa Monica-based Demand Media is bolstering its efforts to reach out towards millennial women, and has acquired LEAFtv. Demand Media also said it has hired Geri Hirsch and Erin Falconer, the founders of LEAFtv, and will expand the LEAFtv brand.

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APRIL 13, 2016

Santa Monica-based Demand Media has sold Cracked , its online humor site, to the E.W. According to Demand Media, the move will give it a "more focused portfolio of businesses", and also "significantly" strengthen its balance sheet. Demand Media acquired Cracked in 2007. Demand Media acquired Cracked in 2007.

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JUNE 17, 2010

Santa Monica-based Demand Media , the online publishing firm of Richard Rosenblatt, has long been rumored to be in the process of filing for an IPO, but has not done so yet, and service providers in the community suggest there may be a few more in the works. Tags: merger acquisition.

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JUNE 28, 2018

My friend Michael Broukhim, founder & co-CEO of FabFitFun and I recently had a catch-up meeting for 3-miles on the Santa Monica “Bird Trail” No company has ever elicited so many questions by friends, colleagues, entrepreneurs, fellow VCs and journalists as has Bird, the company that pioneered the electronic scooter as a service market.

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OCTOBER 31, 2016

Santa Monica-based Demand Media said on Friday that it will be changing its name, and will become Leaf Group Ltd. Demand Media did not say why it is changing its name, however, the company has significantly been shifting its business from Internet media, to an online marketplace business. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 13, 2019

The acquisition by Santa Monica-based Bird of fellow on-demand, scooter service operator Scoot Networks , was worth a mere $25M , according to the WSJ. Bird--which announced the acquisition of Scoot on Wednesday--did not disclose financial details of the deal. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 27, 2011

Santa Monica-based Anthem Venture Partners has scored two exits in the last week, as Los Angeles-based Demand Media hit a homerun with its IPO Wednesday, and San Diego-based Plixi was acquired by Lockerz Thursday. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 20, 2010

Santa Monica-based Demand Media , the Internet content publishing run by Richard Rosenblatt, also is widely expected to be in the process of filing for an IPO. Tags: reachlocal advertising small business exit merger acquisition. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2015

Santa Monica-based Demand Media is continuing to see a steep drop in revenues from its content and media efforts, reporting Thursday afternoon that it had $15.9M in revenues from its Content & Media segments, compared with $33.6M in the same quarter in 2014. The company reported a total, Q3 revenue of $28.5M.

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