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What: Shares of Demand Media
So what: For the quarter, revenue rose 9% to $82.9 million while adjusted profits (excluding one-time charges) totaled $0.07. Both figures hurdled past Wall Street's expectations for a profit of $0.05 on revenue of $79.6 million. The big news was the company's full-year forecast, which blew both its own previous guidance and Wall Street's out of the water. Demand Media now anticipates revenue to come in as high as $367 million with profits of up to $0.35. This crushes the current Street consensus for a $0.28 profit on $341.3 million in revenue.
Now what: The big gray cloud overhanging Demand Media had been whether it would adapt to Google's
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