by David Evans | Dating Industry Finance
Online Schools has created an infographic about online dating that pulls data from Reuters and The Washington Post — online dating is worth more than one billion dollars per year, with the mobile phone dating market worth $550 million. Click the image to see the full...
by David Evans | Dating Industry Finance
Dirk Pflitsch writes in: Hi Dave, we are a bit suprised not to find any informations in us-dating-blogs about eharmonys 30% investment in edarling.de , a german matchmaker. What is the oppinion of the us-dating-experts about that deal? I’m a bit behind on my...
by David Evans | Dating Industry Finance
The following letter was sent to the board of Spark Networks Inc. (NYSE Amex:LOV) March 8, 2010 in opposition to Great Hill Partners’ bid to acquire the company. Dear Board Members, Osmium Partners beneficially owns 6.1% of Spark Networks common stock. We are...
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. Spark Networks reported their year-end results on Thursday March 4th. Much of their results came...
by David Evans | Dating Industry Finance
A few weeks ago I got a chance to talk to Ian Swanson, founder of Sometrics. Ian was previously at Userplane, building social applications for sites like MySpace. Sometrics is focused on monetizeing the social web, providing solutions to maximize revenue from virtual...