The Knot enters personals business
From Crains New York: Manhattan-based The Knot Inc. is entering the $500 million online personals business, with the acquisition of Ithaca, N.Y.-based Great Boyfriends. The Knot Inc., which owns wedding-planning Web site TheKnot.com, did not disclose terms of the...Imaginary girlfriends
Friday afternoon deserves a fun post, so here it is. This kind of stuff is big in Japan. Only a matter of time before it takes off here. An Imaginary Girlfriend is exactly that. This is a service provided by a real life girl where she will pretend to be your long...Lavalife partners with major Canadian portal
Lavalife announced a five-year exclusive integrated personals partnership with Sympatico.MSN.ca. The new partnership gives singles the opportunity to access Lavalife content and services across all Sympatico.MSN.ca properties, including its portal, MSN Hotmail and MSN...Japanese gangsters swindle thousands
From the Daily Yomiuri: A Yokohama-based group of gangsters, motorcycle gang members and former computer software programmers swindled about 10,000 people out of a total of about 1 billion yen ($10M US) in charges for more than 100 fictitious dating service Web sites...
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