by David Evans | Dating Industry Finance, Dating Sites & Startups, Legal, Mobile Dating, Social: Dating & Networking
Vindicia launches new version of CashBox billing solution. A few weeks ago I met up with vindicia CEO Gene Hoffman, who told me they now have a number of big dating sites as clients. Gene is awesome, his team is top-notch and they really understand customer retention...
by David Evans | Dating Industry Finance
PayPal has deemed WhatsYourPrice morally unsuitable and turned off their account. Brandon Wade, Founder and CEO of WhatsYourPrice: Paypal has made a moral decision that accepting money for going on a first date should be banned, while it has for years provided payment...
by David Evans | Dating Industry Finance
Spark Networks, which owns a cadre of dating sites, dominated by JDate, has made a big executive move. President & Chief Operating Officer, Greg Liberman, will be the new President & Chief Executive Officer. Adam Berger, who joined Spark as a board member in...
by David Evans | Dating Industry Finance
Total subscriber numbers, the Meetic group had 858,197 subscribers at 31st December 2010, compared to 844,360 at 31st December 2009 and 869,022 at 30th September 2010. Monthly ARPU (Average Revenue Per User) improved to €19.10 over the second half of 2010,...
by David Evans | Dating Industry Finance
While several large dating sites are preparing for court battles, Spark Networks has sued Zoosk and OKCupid. Spark claims infringement in regards to them having “invented a method or apparatus for automating the process of confidentially determining whether...
by David Evans | Dating Industry Finance, Dating Markets
Cupid plc (formerly Easydate plc), has reported their year-end results for 2010. Cupid’s blended network of casual and adult dating, white label, Indian dating site acquisitions and other interesting deals make them the fastest growing dating company of the...