Demand Media
By Rick Aristotle Munarriz, The Motley Fool
| 4:00PM 8/05/2011
Even as investors reel from the stock-market roller coaster this week, Wall Street is moving on, with plenty of news on the way. Next week will bring headlines about retail and gaming earnings, as well as quarterly reports from News Corp., SodaStream and some newly public Chinese firms.
| 9:30AM 2/22/2011
Some influential tech voices deeply critical of today's search technology hailed the victory of IBM's Watson at Jeopardy! as a forerunner of a new type of more intelligent, useful and less spammy search. Here's why that's still an awfully long ways off.
| 11:40AM 1/24/2011
In a blog post on Friday, Google made its most direct warning that it would be tweaking search algorithms to punish "content farms" -- cheap producers of Web content that either copied or scraped information from other publishers. Demand Media could suffer in particular.
| 10:00AM 11/09/2010
Look out, Demand Media: Here comes another cheap content-creation competitor. Meet BlueGlass, the newest entrant in the rapidly expanding field of producing low-cost text and video articles designed specifically to snag search traffic.
| 2:00PM 8/20/2010
How much quality content can a penny buy? I trolled Demand Media's eHow.com to answer that question. Here's my collection of the dumbest articles published by the company, which recently filed for an IPO.
| 10:15PM 8/14/2010
In an IPO market as finicky as this one, the contemporary adage that any publicity is good publicity doesn't hold. Not when your Web traffic drops suddenly and you've been rated the worst Internet company, and especially not when the CEO may have been caught fudging the facts.
| 4:30PM 8/07/2010
Investors eyeing the IPO of Demand Media, a much-discussed content startup, may be drawn by its big-name underwriters. But they should also scrutinize details such as the company's business vulnerabilities and lack of profits.
| 2:00PM 11/27/2009
This has been a tough year for the media business: as august newspapers and magazines like the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and Gourmet have closed their doors for good, other outlets are scrambling to develop strategies that will guarantee long-term economic survival while allowing them to...