True and TangoPersonals, separated at birth?
Is it me or does True look amazingly similar to TangoPersonals?Inode and KissyKat.com
We’ve written about Inode before. Incode was founded in 2004 to acquire, develop and commercialize innovative and profitable subscription-based eBusinesses in the online dating, information, retail, industrial, and financial services sectors. Incode’s plan...Match sheds 30 workers
Buried in an article about True I found that Match has eliminated about 30 jobs in its events and new product divisions. Makes sense if they are reconsidering running live events. LinkWhat’s up with SpringStreet?
I love Spring Street Networks, and that fact that they run the personals side of great sites like Nerve and Salon.com, not to mention our local Boston.com. Lavalife seems to be doing ok with the contact-for-credits model, but I have not seen a press release from...True.com layoff update
Early reports of 130 layoffs seems to be high. Today’s Dallas News states that True said Friday it laid off 90 employees, or about 60 percent of its workforce of about 150, to streamline operations. The company said the affected employees were told of the...JDate banners feature pictures of porn models
It turns out that JDate has been using pornographic model Kari Gold, 18 years old, who lives in Hungary, as a model in their banner ads. The dating site’s banners pop up on news sites, major Israeli portals and on sites providing Hebrew e-mail services. It turns...Matchlive events ground to a halt?
I received an email stating that Match.com has stopped throwing offline (Matchlive) events – no speeddating, no singles events. Could that be true, even after Chris Terrill, Match.com’s vice president for off-line initiatives at Match, recently said that...True.com lays off 130 employees
True laid off 130 people today. More details to follow as soon as I get them. email me if you have any other news.July ComScore personals site traffic data
July 2004 1) Yahoo with 7.1 million unique visitors. 2) Matchnet, which owns American Singles and Jdate.com, stood at No. 2, with 6.7 million visitors 3) Match.com had 5 million. 4) Monster’s Tickle Personals had 4.6 million. 5) Microsoft’s MSN Dating had...
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