by David Evans | Dating Industry Finance, Dating Sites & Startups
From Yahoo! News: CGI Holding Corporation has acquired privately-held Personals Plus, Inc., the owner of several online dating and relationship websites. The acquisition is expected to significantly expand CGI’s customer base in the area and to provide synergies...
by David Evans | Dating Sites & Startups
What a year for Lycos. Bought by Daum, then Matchmaker was put on the block for $2 Million, which no one seems willing to pay, and now they have decided to become a “personal communications hub.” Next up for Lycos, a dating search engine. Lycos Dating...
by David Evans | Dating Sites & Startups
Remember way back last month when I that PerfectMatch would be a part of a Dr. Phil TV special? Turns out that PerfectMatch offered one million free memberships during the show. Supposedly over 90 percent of those who took advantage of giveaway were women. How many...
by David Evans | Dating Research, Dating Site Technology, Dating Sites & Startups
Scott Rogers launched Toronto-based LavaLife’s web business and then like most entrepreneurs, got bored. His next venture, Lemontonic, integrates MSN messenger with the usual dating site features. $5.4 million in private placements later, Lemontonic 2.0 was...
by David Evans | Dating Sites & Startups
Being from Puritanical New England, I cannot profess to grok the whole redneck thing. However, the folks at Redneck and Single seem to think there is a niche for rednecks who want to meet other rednecks. The profile is tweaked to represent it’s constituents. For...
by David Evans | Dating Sites & Startups
TheChinese Outpost, one of the Web’s leading sites for introducing Mandarin Chinese to the English-speaking world, and Meta4 Networks, provider of the world’s only network of custom-branded multi-lingual online personals services, have announced the...