Dating Industry Under Fire For Dubious Matchmaking Claims
Today’s New York Times has an article about The Dubious Science of Online Dating. While I was reading it, Markus Frind, founder of Plentyoffish (recently rebranded as POF), sent me ELI J. FINKEL AND BENJAMIN R. KARNEY are wrong at least when it comes to POF....Love at First Byte: The Secret Science of Online Dating
For the past few months I’ve been working with CNBC on a new dating special that airs next week. Here’s a clip, which features OKCupid’s Sam Yagan, Match and a few other dating sites. From the show’s website: NBC News and Today Show...Online Dating Industry News January 6, 2012
After a bummer of a sale to FriendFinder Networks, which has proven adept at killing off perfectly good acquisitions, Nerve.com has launched a new dating site. Many people, myself included, consider Nerve/SpringStreet to have been the best “first wave”...China’s Jiayuan Going after English-Speaking Markets
Jiayuan, China’s largest online dating platform, has launched a new English-speaking online dating website, IsThisFate. Aimed at expats living in China, overseas Chinese looking to reconnect, and anyone interested in Chinese romance, IsThisFate attempting to...Online Dating Industry News 9-12-11
OKCupid Asking About Background Checks: By asking members questions about background checks, OkCupid can effectively poll people without seeming too much like an intrusive survey. Interestingly enough, this question appeared right after I was asked how freaky I am....
From 2002-2019, David Evans helped entrepreneurs, investors, and the media, make sense of the online dating industry.
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