by David Evans | Dating Industry Finance, Social: Dating & Networking
Facebook has been talking about implementing a micropayments system for more than a year, only to drop the initiative in recent weeks. to fill the gap, In an aggressive move, Jambool is developing its own payments platform and virtual economy tools for social network...
by David Evans | Dating Industry Finance
AOL clearly overpaid for social networking site Bebo last year and is paying for it’s miscalculation dearly. The original sale price was $850 million. Current asking price is said to be around $200 million. What was AOL thinking? This TechCrunch story goes into...
by David Evans | Dating Industry Finance
Yesterday I mentioned that Zoosk has overtaken Are You Interested as the number one dating application on social networks. This morning I received an email from SNAP Interactive stating 4Q 2008 projected revenue as $1.08 million. Total revenue for 2008 is expected to...
by David Evans | Dating Industry Finance, Dating Research
Over the holidays I spent some time talking with Mandy Ginsberg, Match.com GM for North America. You might want to read Match.com Gets an Update along with this post. Daily 5 Daily 5 helps members find interesting and relevant people who wouldn’t normally...
by David Evans | Dating Industry Finance, Dating Research, Profiles & Matching
I just had a great conversation with the Down to Earth team. Down to Earth is the new Match.com free dating site. It will take a few days to process everything, will have something up next week. I also have a ton of information from my talk with Match over the...