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Demand Media Prices IPO, Begins Trading Today

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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 UBS Securities LLC, Allen & Company LLC, Jefferies & Company, Inc., per share, and above the initial 7,500,000 shares.

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Demand Media Sets IPO Pricing Range

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Demand Media's IPO efforts have been one of the closest watched activities in the Southern California technology industry, as an indicator of the IPO prospects for other technology companies here. Demand Media runs such sites as LiveStrong and eHow, along with a network of other media and content focused sites.

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Demand Media Sets IPO Offering Size, Boosts Traffic

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The firm, which has not yet set a pricing range, has applied to list on the NYSE as DMD. The firm also said it now has over 13,000 content creators working for the firm, creating articles for the company. Demand Media, which is headed by former MySpace chairman Richard Rosenblatt, operates such sites as eHow and LiveStrong.com.

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Demand Media Expected To Hit Market Next Week

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Demand Media priced its IPO on January 12th, saying it hopes to debut on the NYSE at between $14.00 Demand Media's IPO is being underwritten by BS Investment Bank, Allen & Company LLC, Jefferies & Company, Stifel Nicolaus Weisel, RBC Capital Markets, and Pacific Crest Securities. and $16.00 READ MORE>>.

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Exploring A Brave New World Of Domain Names, With Rightside

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They''ve always had two businesses--the content business, which is what people are familiar with, with eHow, Livestrong, and other brands--and then they had the domain services business. The decision was made over a year ago now, to break those two pieces into two separate companies. Do you have some key goals for the new company?

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Interview with Milo Sindell, Knowledge Genie

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How did the company start? That became our company Hit the Ground Running, which we launched in 2007 to help a number of Fortune 500 clients with our technology and methodologies. Can you talk about the pricing and how the business model works? Our online publishing platform allows users to monetize and share what they know.

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How to Save MySpace

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I know many of their founders and early employees, and one of the co-founders of Intermix (the parent company of MySpace) is an investor. Music – enable a dead simple player on band and profile pages that lets users upload their songs and have them purchased for any price they set. Think eHOW or About. Court Star Power.