SNAP Interactive, Inc. to Raise $8.5 Million. the leading social dating application provider (AreYou Interested) with more than 30 million installs across its social dating applications. Congrats to SNAP. Funds will be used to accelerate their business by providing them with the ability to hire additional talent and expand marketing efforts for the AreYouInterested.com social dating brand.
Badoo’s Dating App Sees Big New Surge on Facebook. This is starting to get interesting. Problem with all of these Facebook dating apps is that they are too casual. How “serious” they get is up to the developers.
Match.com Class Action Lawsuit Complaint Filed Over Alleged Fake And/Or Inactive Profiles On The Match.com Online Dating Website. Alleges that as many as 60 percent of the profiles of prospective dates belong to inactive or fake users who cannot be contacted. A former Match employee says that a huge percentage of the profiles were not real members but filler profiles.
Plentyoffish TV Ads Launch Across the US. Check them out on the Plentyoffish YouTube channel.
Bebo launches video chat. Speaking of $850 million social networks worth about $10 million. Mike Jones, whom many of you know as the founder of dating chat software company Userplane, is busy today laying of 1/2 of the Myspace staffe. Mike has been the CEO of Myspace for a while. Tough going Mike, we love ya.
OKCupid online dating service tweaks privacy controls.
Dating sites for the disabled are starting to take off.
Customer Service Innovation: Developers are having a lot of fun modding the Microsoft xBox Kinect system. Links semi-NSFW link.
Playing around with paper.li dating news aggregator.
