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APRIL 18, 2011

The firm said its estimates, provided February 22nd, still stand, despite a third party report that search engine algorithms made at Google have impacted eHow, the company's question and answer site. Demand Media said that that report "significantly overstated" the negative impact of those Google changes.

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JANUARY 12, 2011

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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MAY 9, 2012

Demand Media also acknowledged that changes to the search engine algorithms at Google have significantly impacted its content business, particularly at its eHow property: Demand said its RPM for its owned and operated content sites dropped by 20 percent from year to year, due to those search engine changes. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 20, 2011

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. Demand Media runs content sites Livestrong.com, eHow, Trails.com, and many others. and Generation Partners, among others.

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JANUARY 26, 2011

Demand Media, which operates an online publishing business and sites such as LiveStrong and eHow, upped the pricing well above its initial offering range of $14.00 UBS Securities LLC, Allen & Company LLC, Jefferies & Company, Inc., per share, and above the initial 7,500,000 shares. Morgan Stnaley & Co.,

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OCTOBER 14, 2008

Demand Media has appointed George Stewart as the company's Executive Vice President of Advertising Sales, heading up sales for all of the company's sales channels. The firm said that Stewart will build a sales team to increase sales revenue of Demand's eHow, Trails.com, Cracked, Livestrong.com, and other web sites.

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AUGUST 6, 2012

Santa Monica-based Demand Media (www.demandmedia.com) has seen its share of ups and downs as one of the highest visibility technology and media companies to come out of Southern California's technology ecosystem in recent years. We bought sites, built a studio system, and now we're figuring out what different formats to approach.

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MAY 2, 2014

Editor''s note: we''re cross running this on our Pacific Northwest site, Northwest Innovation, since part of Rightside''s operations are in Seattle.). 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.

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JULY 29, 2009

This morning, Knowledge Genie (www.myknowledgegenie.com) launched a new web site that helps experts and authors publish online information to the web. People can come to the site, pay you directly, and we provide them with access to your genie, and away they go. How did the company start? What is the idea behind Knowledge Genie?

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JUNE 18, 2009

They attract over 70 million people a month (just in the US), and by most accounts are still one of the 10 most popular sites in the world. 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. Think eHOW or About. I wouldn’t bet against MySpace.

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