by David Evans | Dating Sites & Startups
Friendster news from Rafat Ali, Jeremy Zawodny Rob Hoff and VC Bill Burnham. CEO Scott Sassa is out. Replaced by Taek Kwon, evp-product and technology at Citysearch.com. Five people laid off (out of 55). More VC funding on the way. Yahoo! is looking to hire...
by David Evans | Dating Industry Finance, Dating Sites & Startups
Two press releases about Lemontonic today. First is that Lemontonic will be acquired by Silverback Media. The second states that energy company Pioneering Technology is doing a reverse takeover of Lemontonic. Silverback release here, takeover release is here....
by David Evans | Dating Industry Finance
Spark Networks plc, a leading provider of online personals services, today announced that it has completed the acquisition of MingleMatch, Inc., a company that operates religious, ethnic, special interest and geographically targeted online singles communities....
by David Evans | Marketing
Match sent out a periodic email urging members to check out new features that have been covered here previously. In the irony department, I see that the email tells reader to add @connect.match.com to their Safe Senders email address list. Then I look over at the ads...