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Loïc Le Meur, Seesmic founder, talks about the lack of understanding and cultural differences between American and European entrepreneurs.
Meetic is the #1 dating site in Europe, created by Marc Simoncini (disclosure, I am a board member), it has more than 100 million euros in revenues, present in 20+ countries and Marc has not sold to [...]
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News from ODI friends in Germany. Light editing on my part.
Meetic bought 100% of neu.de and 100% of partner.de for a sum of 25 million Euros. For dating executives in Europe, the acquisition was not a surprise, because neu.de made a big “pimp up for aquisition” in the last month. Insiders think meetic+neu.de will have [...]
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Vacation was fantastic. 18 relatives in a rustic camp on a beautiful lake in the mountains. Re-entry is proving difficult (or I’m just feeling lazy), we’ll stick with links for this week while I get back into the swing of things.
Meetic vs. Match. France versus Texas. Top two UK sites are free, fighting for leftovers. [...]
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Comscore has released a list of top dating sites, with a focus on the European dating market. Meetic sure was smart to buy DatingDirect before they got too large.
Bob Ivins, managing director for comScore Europe, says that usage of dating sites seems to peak in the summer months in each country; July in the U.K. [...]
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Comscore has released a list of top dating sites, with a focus on the European dating market. Meetic sure was smart to buy DatingDirect before they got too large.
Bob Ivins, managing director for comScore Europe, says that usage of dating sites seems to peak in the summer months in each country; July in the U.K. [...]
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Continental Europe’s leading online dating agency Meetic said on Monday it was close to concluding a friendly takeover of British peer, DatingDirect.
Meetic founder and chairman Marc Simoncini said, “Thanks to this acquisition we will have conquered in less than five years the leading position on most of the international markets on which we operate.�
The group, [...]
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Jessica Mintz at Businessweek shines a spotlight on online dating.
Yahoo, ranked the number one site, declined 14 percent in November compared with the previous year. Match.com had 12 percent fewer visitors in November, year-over-year.
Match made $80 million last quarter, mostly by raising fees.
Spark Networks will start using DoubleClick Inc.’s online advertising services to generate [...]
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