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Lot’s going on today. First up, the iovation iDate wrapup webinar at 2PM EST, the Spark Networks investor call at 4:30PM EST, followed by the Matchmaking Institute Cupid system demo, at 5PM EST.

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Lot’s going on today. First up, the iovation iDate wrapup webinar at 2PM EST, the Spark Networks investor call at 4:30PM EST, followed by the Matchmaking Institute Cupid system demo, at 5PM EST.

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Spark Networks announced today that it has acquired the assets of HurryDate, a leading online personals and singles events company.
Greg Liberman, Spark Networks President:
Adding HurryDate to the Spark family is another step towards expanding our offline presence and solidifies our position as the only leading online personals provider to effectively ‘marry’ the online and offline [...]

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Spark Networks plc (AMEX: LOV) announced today that it has launched live and anonymous calling and interactive games on a number of its online communities including AmericanSingles, Date.ca and CollegeLuv via Userplane Webchat and Webmessenger applications.

This is good news for Userplane (Sponsor of this blog), especially after being acquired by AOL earlier this fall. I’m [...]

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Benny Fluman at Zoozamen tells me that Spark Networks is building a premium service based on the Zoozamen psychological testing engine. Every Jdate members will have a free personal psychological profile which can be used during the matching process in addition to the standard fields. This is similar to how results from the Yahoo [...]

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Spark Networks Board of Directors as authorized the Company to seek approval of a share repurchase plan at its next Annual General Meeting. The company intends to to authorize the potential repurchase of up to an aggregate of approximately 2,000,000 of the Company’s GDSs and ADSs, which represent the Company’s ordinary shares, on the Frankfurt [...]

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Yovav Meydad, former Chief of Product Management at Spark Networks, joined the company’s Advisory Board. Meydad’s role will be to assist with Business and Technology Development for ZIM’s mobile content and P2P Internet TV strategy.

Prior to joining Spark Networks, Meydad worked for ICQ Mobile (an AOL Time Warner Company) as Director of the ICQ Wireless [...]

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JDate has launched a website called JMag. Similar to Match’s Happen Magazine, there are lifestyle stories, how to’s and dating tips. Speaking of JDate, Spark Networks’ Second Quarter results were announced last week.

The Company reported second quarter 2006 revenue for its JDate segment of $7.0 million, an increase of 13% compared to $6.2 [...]

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Spark Networks announced today Michael A. Kumin (bio) has been elected to the company’s Board of Directors, effective immediately.

Mr. Kumin is currently a Partner with Great Hill Partners, a Boston-based private equity firm, where he is responsible for originating and evaluating inv*stm*nt opportunities in the internet, media and business services sectors.

I wrote about Great Hills [...]

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