Quote of the day
Redpoint Ventures to invest in MySpace: Geoffrey Yang, VC with Redpoint Ventures, said he is days away from investing in MySpace; “these guys in a sense are trying to be an MTV for the Internet.”CGI buys Personals Plus
From Yahoo! News: CGI Holding Corporation has acquired privately-held Personals Plus, Inc., the owner of several online dating and relationship websites. The acquisition is expected to significantly expand CGI’s customer base in the area and to provide synergies...AEwebworks releases aeDating 3.2
AEwebworks has rolled out the latest version of their dating site in a box. From I can tell, the only thing missing is a weblog profile system. From the press release: Based in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, with head in Sydney, Australia AEwebworks is professional software...Lycos launching meta-dating site
What a year for Lycos. Bought by Daum, then Matchmaker was put on the block for $2 Million, which no one seems willing to pay, and now they have decided to become a “personal communications hub.” Next up for Lycos, a dating search engine. Lycos Dating...Perfectmatch.com gives away 1 million memberships
Remember way back last month when I that PerfectMatch would be a part of a Dr. Phil TV special? Turns out that PerfectMatch offered one million free memberships during the show. Supposedly over 90 percent of those who took advantage of giveaway were women. How many...Spam comments
The blog is peppered with hundreds of bogus spam comments. I’ve hired a team of trained monkey’s with Tasers to hunt them down and make their lives miserable.Toronto’s Lemontonic getting sweeter
Scott Rogers launched Toronto-based LavaLife’s web business and then like most entrepreneurs, got bored. His next venture, Lemontonic, integrates MSN messenger with the usual dating site features. $5.4 million in private placements later, Lemontonic 2.0 was...More V-day trafffic stats
Valentine’s Day-related Web sites gained visitors in January and early February, according to Feedback Research. For example, online personals sites like Match.com and Yahoo! Personals were viewed over 29 million times by GAIN Network users between December 28,...Friendster ties with eharmony
Emails to Friendster about their ties to Eharmony and by association Focus on the Family are being answered by Friendster customer service reps who call the well-publicized partnership with Eharmony a “rumor and a hoax”.
From 2002-2019, David Evans helped entrepreneurs, investors, and the media, make sense of the online dating industry.
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