Should Yahoo Acquire Competing Dating Sites?
In a post titled Hit The Brakes on the Yahoo Lovefest, Rick Munarriz at The Motley Fool says: It (Yahoo) can beef up its online dating presence by buying sites like Plenty of Fish or going for IAC’s (Nasdaq: IACI) Match.com and Chemistry.com. Yahoo has a lot...Spark Networks, Making More While Making Less
Spark Networks, Inc. (AMEX: LOV) today reported financial results for the second quarter and six months ended June 30, 2008. Spark Networks overall subscriber base is diminishing while profitability is up. Spark lost close to 30,000 paying subscribers, mostly from...Match.com 2Q 2008 Financial Results
Match has hit the wall in terms of US growth, continuing slight increase in revenue per subscriber. 1% subscriber growth to 1,326,500. Revenue growth was driven by a 4% and 15% increase in international subscribers and revenue per subscriber, respectively, and 3%...Dating & Discovery Services Raising Big Bucks
Two big fundraising events in the past week have occurred. First, online videochat service WooMe has raised $12.5 Million. That’s an enormous amount of money for a videochat site, but after having a conversation with CEO Stephen Stokols I’m pretty...Parship Doubles in Size in One Year
European dating network Parship has doubled revenue to $46 million Euros in a single year. Until recently, premium matchmaking services were viewed as a niche segment of the mainstream online dating market, which is dominated by players with big TV campaigns and even...
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