by David Evans | Dating Industry Finance
Dating site owners continue to get out of the market while the getting is good. A few more consolidations and it’s going to be a handful of mega-sites and a thousand niches struggling to survive. In today’s news, it looks like Vertrue has found a buyer,...
by David Evans | Dating Industry Finance, Dating Markets, Dating Sites & Startups
Baihe.Com, a leading Chinese match making portal, will screen its eight million online daters against an “ID authentication system�. The new system was jointly developed by the website and the ministry of public security. The system will check the age, marital...
by David Evans | Dating Industry Finance, Dating Sites & Startups, Marketing
Infamous “pink sheet” dating site Luvoo is going to start charging members $29.95 a year, ditching the free subscription model. Luvoo mentions stock prices of their competitors in all their press releases to show how warm and fuzzy they are. Feels like a...
by David Evans | Dating Industry Finance
Dating industry veterans including the co-founders of Lavalife have funded Shanghai-based WorldFriends Network. WorldFriends Networks currently serves over 200 website partners and 1,000,000 registered members. The Asian dating market continues to heat up, with a...
by David Evans | Dating Industry Finance, Dating Research, Dating Sites & Startups
Online dating site Match.com has decided that marketing dollars spent in the US on it’s home turf can only take the company so far, announcing it has acquired two international dating and social networking sites. From PaidContent: Online dating site Match.com...
by David Evans | Dating Industry Finance
Spark Networks has reported fourth quarter and full year 2006 financial results. Highlights * Reported Full Year Revenue of $68.9 Million * Generated Full Year Net Income of $6.6 Million * Delivered Full Year EPS of $0.21 * Reported Cash Flow from Operations of $13.1...