Tinder Invented Sex, Goes Insane
Longtime dating expert Julie Spira wrote a piece on HuffPo about a Vanity Fair article, Tinder and the Dawn of “Dating Apocalypse.”. Update: Tinder just lost its mind on Twitter over a Vanity Fair story. Grab the popcorn, this is going to be good. I...Why Bots Like Dating Sites
Dating services employ any number of anti-fraud solutions. Over the years I’ve seen registered devices (doesn’t work), geo-IP lookups and all sorts of home-brewed solutions. Are You Human is a technology used to fight bots, which supposedly account for...Is The End Of Ashley Madison Near?
Cheater dating site Ashley Madison has been hacked by someone who worked there in the past in a technical capacity. The person was upset that AM was charging people to remove their profiles completely. Instead of doing what everyone else supposedly does, AM charged...Plentyoffish 2006 Canadian National TV Interview
Fun look at POF from the early days. In 2006 POF served up 600M pageviews each month, earning $10,000 a day. LOL@ 1:58. The video owner has a video showing the new Match Mobile circa...The Match Group to Acquire POF (PlentyOfFish)
The Match Group, the global operator of digital dating products such as Match, Tinder, OkCupid and Meetic, and a subsidiary of IAC, announced today that it has entered into a definitive agreement to purchase PlentyOfFish for US$575 million in cash. I wrote Be...AARP Wants Dating Sites To Crack Down On Fraud
How interesting that the AARP ignored the dating industry for over a decade and now calls for the industry to crack down on fraud, probably because lots of their members are getting scammed on their own dating site, powered by HowAboutWe, which is owned by Match. More...Cuban Disses CMB, Funds Competitor Courtem
The Coffee Meets Bagel crash & burn on Shark Tank has led to an interesting development. Mark Cuban, who’s $30M offer the CMB sisters turned down, has invested in Courtem, a dating app from the Anheuser-Busch family. Cuban serves as an advisor and holds an...Scamalytics Release Industry Report on Scammers and Dating Fraud | Scamalytics
Global Dating Insights and Scamalytics have collaborated on a scammers and dating fraud report. The report covers scammers and dating fraud and what the industry and third-parties can do to combat the threat they pose. They look at the current frauds infecting mobile...Coffee Meets Bagel Lands $7.8M Funding
Today’s dating industry jaw-dropper is that Coffee Meets Bagel has managed to convince investors to give them almost $8M to continue to build and grow the straggling service. Investors just gave a niche service a huge pot of gold. Full details at TechCrunch....
From 2002-2019, David Evans helped entrepreneurs, investors, and the media, make sense of the online dating industry.
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