When Will Match.com Acquire Zhenai?
Last week I mentioned that Jiayuan is an Asian dating site that the Match business development team seems to have missed out on. Match has had some ups and downs with their Asian investments over the years, mostly downs. But with deep pockets and IAC as a parent,...Dating Industry News 5-18-12
I’m psyched about my 1.5 million Facebook shares, which is going to make me filthy rich. I’m planning on dumping them this afternoon, moving to the tropics and becoming a banana farmer. I kid, I kid, but can you imagine how the new crop of...Calling All Players: Match.com Wants You
Match.com is launching a game service for singles. To play you are required to hack into a government mainframe with a secret password, and the game unfolds like this: Joshua: Shall we play a game? David Lightman: Oh! David Lightman: Love to. How about Global...Match Stirs Online Dating Up With Live Events & Games
This morning I had a Skype videochat with Match.com President Mandy Ginsberg and Shar Dubey, Vice President of Product. Mandy and Shar took some time out of their busy Internet Week in New York schedule to share supplemental detail to the Match blog posts and press...Match.com Re-Launching Match Live Events?
This week Match.com’s PR department reached out to set up a time to talk about an important upcoming announcement. Then today the Match blog, Up To Date, features a post, Stay Tuned for an Exciting Announcement from Match.com. Match.com will be making a BIG...Bailing on Scoop.it, Whats Up With Me?
After testing out Scoop.it for a few months, its proven to be a great platform for quick posts, but there’s so little traffic being generated that I’m bailing on it. Great platform without a doubt, but just not a good fit for me. I wish WordPress would...Couple of Dating Domain Names
Someone for the love of God go buy www.SingleHumans.com for $495. Details at Sedo. Deeper pockets? How about datingonline.com for $40,000? Details at Snapnames. Why are the landing pages for these domain so crappy? One would think you would at least stuff a few good...Badoo Hits 150 Million Users
Big news, social discovery/dating site Badoo is on track to hit 150 million users today. Corporate communications at Badoo told me that they attribute the 150,000 daily new users in part to mobile and US growth, specifically. Thirty-five million active users per month...European Dating Fraud At All-Time High
Device reputation firm iovation did some research and found that the online dating fraud rate originating from Europe grew 357% between Q1 2011 and Q1 2012. The exact breakdown was: Q1 2011 = .22 Q2 2011 = .50 Q3 2011 = .66 Q4 2011 = .73 Q1 2012 = 1.02 This is great...
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