by David Evans | Dating Industry Finance
Big news for Europe’s largest up-and-coming dating company, just in time for iDate LA. Edinburgh-based internet-dating company Easydate PLC Wednesday said it plans to list on London’s Alternative Investment Market at the end of June. Easydate operates a...
by David Evans | Dating Industry Finance
Mashable says: Originally acquired by AOL for $850 million back in 2008, Bebo has clearly been a colossal flop for AOL, and as the company refocuses on content, makes little sense strategically. Along those same lines, AOL unloaded ICQ to DST a little over a month...
by David Evans | Dating Industry Finance, Online Dating Industry
Newsflash: Match.com, an operating business of IAC, today announced an agreement by which Match will become the exclusive online dating site on Yahoo!. Yahoo! Personals users will have the opportunity to move to a new co-branded Match.com experience, “Match.com...
by David Evans | Dating Industry Finance
Today’s guest post is by Ross Felix. Ross has been paying close attention to Spark Networks for quite some time and is well-versed in the challenges it faces today. For those of you who aren’t that familiar with Spark Networks, it’s made up of several...
by David Evans | Dating Industry Finance
As I mentioned recently, Match changes $107.94 for a six-month subscription at the end of a three-day trial. Did you know that back 2006 Match changed only $65.70 for six months? Thats quite a markup. I was reading an article in the Atlantic about The Management Myth....