Yahoo Inc. may be losing some potential buyers after the company’s demand for confidentiality this week essentially stopped the possibility for firms to discuss joint bids. Under current terms Goldman Sachs and Allen & Co, advisers to the Yahoo sale […]
Demand Media, Inc. on Wednesday announced that recent traffic declines on their popular website eHow.com was caused by an internal technical issue which was recently resolved. The announcement comes just ahead of Demand Media’s Q3 2011 financial results which will […]
Apple’s Newstand product has helped digital publishers reach a broad new audience and the company benefiting most from the product is News Corp. who’s iPad-only publication The Daily is currently the number one subscription service on the program. With 120,000 […]
Music has always been big business but with the popularity of services like Pandora, Spotify, MOG, and any number of other music streaming services the competition is a lot tougher than it use to be. Perennial web giant wannabe AOL […]
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer told attendees at the Web 2.0 Summit that Microsoft was lucky to be locked out of Yahoo buyout in 2008. Speaking to the crowd about his company’s original $44 billion bid he said “sometimes you’re lucky” […]
AOL on Tuesday announced that Janet Balis has been named as its Head of Sales Strategy, Marketing and Partnerships. In her role Janis will help develop AOLs marketing strategy for AOL Advertising’s products and services. Janet has been put in charge […]
Demand Media, for better or worse, is always looking for ways to increase the quality of the content that gets pumped through their system, and their newest effort is making more than a few of their writers a little angry. […]
Wikileaks has, since almost its inception, been held up as some standard of how news will be delivered, and discovered. Far from it says Tom Kent, Standards Editor and Deputy Managing Editor with Associated Press, pointing to the famous Pentagon […]
Alibaba founder Jack Ma announced on Monday that he has the cash needed to buy Yahoo, inc. It should come as no surprise that Ma made the announcement at an Alibaba company event on Monday since the CEO has long […]
According to a new report out from Marin Software’s Paid Search Quarterly Benchmarking Report click through rates on paid-search ads is better on tablets than what they are on PCs. The results of the report come from 800 advertisers and […]
It seems that one of the more overlooked reasons for success is super prompt payments to those people working for you, and that apparently says a lot for Demand Media and their freelance writers. The folks at Demand Media felt […]
Tim Armstrong is hoping Yahoo shareholders can see the value in merging AOL with Yahoo to create a massive content company. According to a Reuters source Armstrong believes selling AOL to Yahoo could save the combined company’s $1.5 billion in […]
The Huffington Post Media Group has partnered with Le Mond Group and Les Nouvelles Editions to create Le Huffington Post a french version of the popular online American news portal. Under the partnership the Huffington Post platform will power a […]
FMR LLC, the parent company of Fidelity Management & Research Co. has slashed their holdings in AOL to less than 5 perent according to a regulatory filing made on Tuesday. The investment firm had raised their AOL holdings to 10.32 percent […]