Dating sites traffic uptick prior to V-Day
Claria Corporation, which used to be called Gator, has a subsidiary called FeedBack Research, that put out some statistics on Valentine’s Day: Surfers looking for gift ideas and potential lovers online contributed to significant spikes in traffic for sites in...Choicepoint exposes soft underbelly
Choicepoint is now saying that up to 145,000 records may have been compromised. It took several months for Choicepoint to publicly report that they were tricked by nefarious characters who set up 50 companies get access to Choicepoint out of data, what else is going...SMS.ac spamming new members
I recently received an invitation from a friend to join the SMS.ac mobile phone text messaging service. My friend said he never knowingly invited me, and digging around I see that blogger Joi Ito is being potentially sued for calling the SMS “address book...The Chinese Outpost launches multi-lingual service
TheChinese Outpost, one of the Web’s leading sites for introducing Mandarin Chinese to the English-speaking world, and Meta4 Networks, provider of the world’s only network of custom-branded multi-lingual online personals services, have announced the...Match’s Happen magazine ain’t happening
Match has launched an online magazine for subscribers. Happen is a new online magazine that offers a frank, funny look at dating and relationships. We call it Happen because we want to make great relationships happen…and support you through the ups, downs and...Online Dating Version 9.0 – Neurodating
Magnetic Resonance Imaging has moved from the labs into social terrain. Brain Waves, a Corante blog, writes about neurodating. “It is foreseeable that functional images of the brain could be used to facilitate courtships by assessing personal...IAC posts 4Q loss
From Yahoo! News: IAC/InterActiveCorp, an online travel and retailing company, swung to a net loss of $46 million in the fourth quarter as the company recorded charges to write down the value of two of its businesses. The New York-based company, which is run by the...The Knot on GreatBoyfriends
The Internet Stock Blog blogs The Knot’s recent analyst call: We syndicate our content in 70 newspapers nationwide. Our TV series… now reaches over 50 million U.S. homes… also available on Comcast… Augmenting our website’s reach are our...Identity thieves hit Choicepoint
From Reuters: Alpharetta, Georgia-based ChoicePoint maintains personal profiles of nearly every U.S. consumer, which it sells to employers, landlords, marketing companies and about 35 U.S. government agencies. Choicepoint also provides the data for several identity...
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