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APRIL 9, 2010

Santa Monica-based Demand Media , the online publishing and content firm run by Richard Rosenblatt, has scored a win with USA Today, the firm said Thursday. According to Demand Media, it has teamed up with USA Today to launch a new section of USA Today's site called "Travel Tips". READ MORE>>. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 14, 2011

Santa Monica-based Demand Media , the online publishing firm headed by Richard Rosenblatt, said this morning that it has updated its mobile application for its web property Trails.com. The application also provides information about weather conditions, elevation, sunrise and sunset, and a virtual compass. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 27, 2009

We Create Demand for California's Technology Companies. tech, new media, entertainment and consumer industries. Dealmaker Media www.undertheradarblo g.com is presenting their 13th Under the Radar conference in Mountain View, CA on. socalTECH readers. socalTECH readers. Tags: socaltech advertising sponsor.

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MAY 4, 2009

Santa Monica-based Demand Media reports that a man in the United Kingdom used a instructional video on the firm's site, Expert Village, to deliver his wife's baby. Expert Village is Demand's online video site which features experts explaining information on various topics. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Santa Monica-based eNom , the domain name registration and wholesaler owned by Demand Media , confirmed today that it has inked a deal with LegitScript , the Internet pharmacy verification and monitoring service endorsed by the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy. state or federal law. state or federal law.

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OCTOBER 16, 2019

Santa Monica-based TV Time , a developer of an app which lets users report information about their engagement with TVs and movies, has acquired New York City-based Mediamorph , according to the two companies. The newly combined companies will operate under a new umbrella organization, Whip Media Group.

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APRIL 12, 2017

A new, online home design site, called Hunker , launched today, focused on home design, home tours, product recommendations, personal essays, and helpful information for homeowners and apartment-dwellers.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

Santa Monica-based Demand Media has launched a brand new, craft-focused channel on its how-to site, eHow , featuring resources and information on all kinds of arts and crafts.

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JUNE 6, 2011

Santa Monica-based eHow , the online information and answers site run by Demand Media , announced this morning that it has officially launched its eHow Food Channel with celebrity Rachael Ray. Demand Media originally inked its deal with Rachael Ray on March 1st. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 16, 2011

Santa Monica-based eHow , the online question and answer site owned by Demand Media, has revealed a new site redesign today, saying it has launched a new look-and-feel plus additional site enhancements. eHow said the new organization makes the site more useful to advertisers.

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OCTOBER 4, 2011

Santa Monica-based eHow , the question and answer site of Demand Media, is announcing today that it has launched a new women-focused channel called Shift. The site will also feature blogs, interviews, and other information driven by Victoria Colligan of Ladies Who Launch. The new channel is being sponsored by L'Oreal.

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JULY 18, 2012

Santa Monica-based eHow , the online advice and information site owned by Demand Media, is targeting mothers with a new channel, the company said today. eHow said it has launched a new eHow Mom Channel , specifically designed to provide information to mothers. The channel actually launched in May.

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MARCH 2, 2016

Los Angeles-based Render Media (www.rndr.com), which is creating a publisher geared at the social world, social channels, and sharing. We caught up with co-founder and CEO Vic Belonogoff to learn more about Render Media, whose flagship site is Opposing Views. Tell us about Render Media? Demand Media made a business out of that.

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MAY 19, 2011

Santa Monica-based eHow , the online advice site owned by Demand Media , said this morning that it has further boosted its content efforts by launching a new video series. The site said tits new "Beauty Lab" video series is being hosted by beauty industry figure Tracy O'Connor, and will offer beauty tips and other information.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2010

Santa Monica-based LIVESTRONG.COM , the online health and fitness site joint venture of Demand Media and Lance Armstrong, said this week that it has launched a new, iPhone application geared at helping users quick smoking. Livestrong said its new MyQuit Coach iPhone application--which costs $3.99 READ MORE>>.

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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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SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

What happens when you apply big data and computer science to digest all of that social data being fed into Twitter and other social platforms--and cross match that to location information? Our mission is to organize all of the world''s real time location information. What is Tilofy about? My degree is from USC in big data.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2010

Santa Monica-based LIVESTRONG.COM , the online health and fitness site run by Demand Media for Lance Armstrong, reported today that its new site for Team RadioShack, the professional cycling team of Armstrong, has grown to one million visitors in just seven days. Demand Media and Armstrong launched Livestrong.com in June of 2008.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2012

The report--compiled by Ocean Road Partners--included both venture-backed and self-financed information technology companies. The report also tallied six companies having IPOs, the most since 2005; those firms included RealD, Cornerstone OnDemand, Demand Media, ReachLocal and Inphi Corp.

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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.

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JUNE 17, 2010

Santa Monica-based LIVESTRONG.COM , the online health and fitness site run by Demand Media in a partnership with Lance Armstrong, said today that it has partnered with RadioShack Corporation for an iPhone app.

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APRIL 2, 2009

Los Angeles-based Demand Media 's LIVESTRONG.com web site, the online health and fitness information web site run in conjunction with Lance Armstrong, said this week that it has rolled out a new 'Calorie Tracker' aplication for the RIM BlackBerry. Demand Media is run by Richard Rosenblatt, who was the chairman of MySpace.

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MAY 4, 2010

Santa Monica-based LIVESTRONG.COM , the online health information site run by Demand Media and the Lance Armstrong Foundation, said today that it has named Dr. Leslie Anne Saxon as its Chief Medical Advisor.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

Factual said that the data set helps developers gain access to information which had previously been difficult to license, due to multiple vendors and licensing requirements. Factual said its geo-coded data also includes local business information for companies in the UK, Japan, Italy, Indonesia, and Australia.

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DECEMBER 17, 2008

Santa Monica-based Demand Media has released traffic statistics for its LIVESTRONG.COM web site, its joint venture with cyclist Lance Armstrong, saying that the site now has more than 4 million monthly visits and over 650,000 registered members. The site, which launched in June, is focused on health, fitness, and related information.

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JUNE 14, 2010

Newsweek said that the partnership with Factual will allow students and faculty of individual schools can comment and contribute information about their schools. Financial details of the arrangement between Factual and Newsweek were not disclosed. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2012

popped up consistently in an informal (and highly non-scientific poll) of a number of readers, executive recruiters, and others in the Los Angeles area, who cited growth, brand, profitability, and other factors in their suggestions to us of the top companies. Demand Media. The now-public. Edmunds was also one of the companies.

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JANUARY 14, 2011

Its primary goal is to focus on identifying what is truly driving demand, analytically, so that our customers can optimize their activities. Essentially, we help them learn how to get more with less, and also how to consider new investments in things like social media, mobile marketing, or video. Did the TV stimulate search?

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JANUARY 18, 2011

We caught up with Julie Schoenfeld , the firm's CEO, to hear about how the firm's offerings have evolved, an interesting comparison of the firm's software to what Demand Media is doing, and what this new funding will go towards. It's some of the kinds of things Demand Media does, except, for the newsroom.

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APRIL 2, 2014

I was at PowerBar, the energy bar company which was acquired by Nestle, and then I went on to marketing analytics companies, including Nielsen Catalina, and most recently Buddy Media, which was acquired by Salesforce. It''s a perfect opportunity for data geeks in marketing and the business side to get information on customers in real time.

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DECEMBER 15, 2008

The new service is similar to offerings from Yahoo with its Yahoo Answers service, Los Angeles-based Sodahead , and Demand Media's Answerbag Q&A service. Mahalo is a human powered search engine which uses a team of editors to cull the web for information on the most popular search topics. and Sequoia Capital.

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OCTOBER 21, 2009

One of our big areas of differentiation is the fact that we have all of this technology to improve data, whether that is looking for other, related data sets, merging that data, or using the technology to mine for factual information, and integrate that into the data set. How does that work? They're using our data in various formats.

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JUNE 5, 2012

We then take that information and find trends and metadata, and all that content and sharing, and use it to drive e-commerce, and to design and manufacture apparel products. Brian Garrett: The way I describe it, is it's a fashion, media, and commerce company. We're now working on partnership, and consumer adoption of our media.

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JULY 11, 2014

It''s a very trustworthy source of information. I was at Overture, then Yahoo, and later People Media, which we sold to Match.com. We have around nine million unique users every month. The really amazing this, is those deals are all user generated content, from our users finding the best deals on the Internet.

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JULY 20, 2011

The firm's CEO and co-founder, Jennifer Sargent , has an interesting background, most recently serving as an executive at Variety/Reed Business Information. As a result, consumers would go away after they hit that information. The driving force for me was the gap in the market which I saw, a disruption in media consumption patterns.

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JULY 13, 2016

In my case, I had a mentor at the time who helped me understand how there was a parallel between the printing press and the Renaissance, and the Internet as the next step in information and communications. Plus, we were seeing things like the Arab Spring and things like that, where the free flow of information was countering tyranny.

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MARCH 22, 2011

If there were more great companies coming out of LA then it would create more demand for high quality VC firms. This dispersed geography prevents entrepreneurs from easily meeting up for both formal functions and the informal drinks/dinner that so often lead to great ideas and partnerships. It’s a chicken and egg problem.

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