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Great Hill Buys Minority in Spark

Rafat Ali at Paid Content says that Great Hill Partners, the Boston-based PE firm which bought IGN in 2003, and then made a killing selling it to Fox, has bought a 20 percent stake in online dating network company Spark Networks (operator of JDate.com, among others)....

CNET buys Consumating.com

What a day for the online dating industry. First Think, now Consumating.com announces a deal with CNET. Over the past few months I’ve written and talked a lot about Consumating. The site caught my eye due to the use of dynamic profiles, tagging and other...

Friendster on the block

According to News.com, Investment firm Montegomery & Co. has been hired to find a buyer for Friendster. Again. Earlier this year they were asking $200 million, that price has been lowered to the $50 million range. Lack of a solid business model and the MySpace...

Spark Networks 3Q ’05 Numbers

My notes from the call. No Q&A session due to Quiet Period Full press release at Spark Networks News Room. 3rd amendment to S-1 filed today. The company’s Registration Statement on Form 10, which will make Spark Networks an SEC reporting company, will be...