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According to TechCrunch, Wine review site Corkd was hacked to redirect to Adult Friend Finder. Interesting that the Corkd home page actually showed showed up for a second before redirecting to AFF. Details are thin but I bet it was an AFF affiliate. The Corkd site owner, the infamous Gary V, has turned the situation [...]
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It’s been a while since we’ve heard a juicy rumor.
Valleywag says:
What’s going on over at FriendFinder Networks, née Penthouse Media Group? Apparently the effort to migrate into an online publishing and social networking powerhouse is being hampered by developers dissatisfied with working conditions and an inability to hire new staff — even though supervisor Anthony [...]
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Turns out the rumor was true, Penthouse acquired Various, Inc. Various boasts 260 million members and about as many paying members as Match.com, most of the action coming from Adultfriendfinder.
Nice payday for CEO Andrew Conru and his merry band of alternative lifestyle gurus, although not as large as I expected. I wonder how the members [...]
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Fresh on rumors that Adult Friend Finder was acquired last month, legal troubles which undoubtedly complicate the transaction.
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) said in a statement that AdultFriendFinder affiliates used pop-up ads to drive traffic to the site, and exposed consumers, including children to sexual explicit images when search for terms including “flowers,� “travel,� [...]
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