Yahoo! inks deal with Sony
From Brand Republic: Yahoo! Europe will have features such as Messenger, its toolbar and personals service pre-installed on all Sony Vaio notebooks and desktops in a new deal with the electronics giant. People buying Sony computers in the UK, France, Germany, Italy...Yahoo launches premium personals site
Looks like Yahoo! is taking eHarmony seriously. Yahoo Inc. late Tuesday launched Personals Premier, a premium online dating service aimed at attracting serious relationship seekers with deeper pockets. The move challenges eHarmony, a popular online dating site that...Gannett and eHarmony Launch Localized Service
From the Motley Fool: Gannett Co., Inc. (GCI), a leading international news and information company, and eHarmony, the Internet’s premier relationship service, today announced a partnership to launch branded online personals for USA TODAY and Gannett’s...Match launches Tokyo unit
Match.com, already embedded in 32 countries with 15 million active members, is offering a virtual solution for the maritally challenged in the world’s second-largest economy. Chief Operating Officer Joe Cohen: Of our members, 80 percent said they’re...Cupid.com to announce acquisition
Buried in the press release about Mark Brooks joining Cupid.com is this interesting tidbit: Cupid.com expects to announce a significant acquisition very shortly. This acquisition will further Cupid.com’s promise of uniting local singles in the real world....Mark Brooks joins Cupid.com
Online personals guru and marketing consultant Mark Brooks has joined Cupid.com, Inc. as VP Marketing & Business Development. Link to Marks blog Onlinepersonalswatch and press release announcement.Personals is #1 paid content category
From ClickZ: Personals/dating held its position as the leading paid content category, with U.S. consumers spending $227.9 million in the first half of 2004. Spending in the business/investment category dropped 8 percent to third place, with $154.9 million this year...Match upgrades email features
“Great things are happening at Match.com”, at least that’s what the copy of their latest email update says. Match is touting their email management features that “you may have missed.” If they’re smart they will offer a forwarding...New Yahoo! service is in trial period
Looks like the service is free until 1/31/05. The Yahoo! Personals Premier Guest List trial period is only open until January 31, 2005 at 11:59 PM PST. While you’re on the Guest List, you’ll have full access to all of the advanced searching and matching...
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