by David Evans | Dating Industry Finance, Dating Sites & Startups
Amazon.com has launched its Flexible Payments Service. The service, which had been in limited beta, lets third-party developers tap into Amazon’s existing payment infrastructure — letting them charge customers using the payment information and shipping...
by David Evans | Dating Industry Finance, Dating Research
Eric Klaassen of Datingfacts, a dating blog in the Neterhlands, has written about the size of the EU dating market. I’ve translated the following from his original post, not perfect but you get the idea. Number of users is growing fast in Europe Volgens Jupiter...
by David Evans | Dating Industry Finance
Most new dating sites these days are free, and payment providers are focusing on getting dating sites to switch over to their system with promises of lower rates. Online payment system providers were out in force at iDate. I liked this Vindicia special landing page...
by David Evans | Dating Industry Finance, Social: Dating & Networking
Facebook has been talking about implementing a micropayments system for more than a year, only to drop the initiative in recent weeks. to fill the gap, In an aggressive move, Jambool is developing its own payments platform and virtual economy tools for social network...
by David Evans | Dating Industry Finance
AOL clearly overpaid for social networking site Bebo last year and is paying for it’s miscalculation dearly. The original sale price was $850 million. Current asking price is said to be around $200 million. What was AOL thinking? This TechCrunch story goes into...
by David Evans | Dating Industry Finance, Dating Sites & Startups
Here are the notes from my revenue generation panel presentation. If you would like to share your presentation (especially if it didn’t make it into the conference thumbdrive), send a copy to me or post a link to it and I’ll publish here. iDate Revenue...