eTwine Changes Name to SNAP Interactive
eTwine Holdings, Inc., a leading provider of social networking applications, has announced the change of the company’s name to SNAP Interactive, Inc. SNAP is derived from the acronym for “Social Networking Application Provider.” In conjunction with...Penthouse Acquires Various, Inc.
Turns out the rumor was true, Penthouse acquired Various, Inc. Various boasts 260 million members and about as many paying members as Match.com, most of the action coming from Adultfriendfinder. Nice payday for CEO Andrew Conru and his merry band of alternative...Meetic buys German Dating Sites
News from ODI friends in Germany. Light editing on my part. Meetic bought 100% of neu.de and 100% of partner.de for a sum of 25 million Euros. For dating executives in Europe, the acquisition was not a surprise, because neu.de made a big “pimp up for...College Tonight Goes Public in Reverse Merger
More dating sites are getting into the stock market. LA-based social net College Tonight has gone public on the OTCBB market via a reverse merger with Simex Technologies. As part of the transaction, College Tonight said it has raised $1.6 million in a private...Beliefnet Being Bought By News Corp
It’s been up and down for BeliefNet the past few years. Looks like it’s up for now. Beliefnet, the NYC-based multi-faith community site which has been around since 1999 and has gone through Chapter 11 bankruptcy, has finally been bought. The buyer is News...
From 2002-2019, David Evans helped entrepreneurs, investors, and the media, make sense of the online dating industry.
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