by David Evans | Dating Sites & Startups
From Yahoo News: Friendster logged 703,000 visitors to its site in April, a 15 percent drop from the year-ago month and the average visitor spent 14 minutes on the site that month, down 65 percent year over year, according to Nielsen/NetRatings. By contrast, MyPlace...
by David Evans | Dating Sites & Startups
This was in my mailbox this morning. They never promoted this service. I think I got one email about it. I posted my audio clip when they started the beta. I never receive a “hows it working out for you” type email which was a shame. Match spends all...
by David Evans | Dating Sites & Startups
Friendster news from Rafat Ali, Jeremy Zawodny Rob Hoff and VC Bill Burnham. CEO Scott Sassa is out. Replaced by Taek Kwon, evp-product and technology at Citysearch.com. Five people laid off (out of 55). More VC funding on the way. Yahoo! is looking to hire...
by David Evans | Dating Industry Finance, Dating Sites & Startups
Two press releases about Lemontonic today. First is that Lemontonic will be acquired by Silverback Media. The second states that energy company Pioneering Technology is doing a reverse takeover of Lemontonic. Silverback release here, takeover release is here....
by David Evans | Dating Sites & Startups
Take a roomful of programmers, a beta Google web service and the concept of geo-targeting singles and you have 4ppl +GoogleMaps. The service works by merging 4ppl’s database of singles and overlaying it on top of Google’s super GoogleMaps service. Enter in...