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Bachelor blues

But what about the plight of the single guy? According to a recent article in the Wall Street Journal, it’s single men, not single woman, who now face the longer odds of making a match. For every million thirtysomething single women, there’s a ”man...

Marketing Battle for Online Dating

The battle in the online dating service business has become as competitive as the contest among looking-for-love singles angling for that final rose from “The Bachelor.” Market leaders like Match.com, a unit of USA Interactive, and Yahoo Personals, are now...

Ring, Ring! It’s Your Soul Mate

In the San Francisco Bay Area, where lots of single engineers, programmers and Web developers lurk, finding a date can be a daunting task. That’s why Jim Wald, a 37-year-old technical writer in Burlingame, California, turned to online dating services like...