Match Reports Q2 2004 Results
Revenue grew 1% from 48.2 to 48.5 million. Operating income grew 2% from 7.6 to 7.8 million. Paid Subscribers up 16% to 997,000. international subscribers up 90% Personals revenue was flat, on a 16% increase in paid subscribers which was offset by a decrease in the...USERPLANE UNVEILS WEB RECORDER™ 1.5
Calling 1.5 a significant enhancement of its A/V recorder technology, Userplane is expanding the creative application of user-recorded video to focus on online classifieds, auctions and casting services. he new version works seamlessly on any website, requires no...Match.com volleyball team record is 1 for 3
Match.com got into the volleyball match playing business for Spikefest. Three teams – two in 3-on-3 divisions and one in 5-on-5 – used the dating service to form its volleyball team. Neither 3-on-3 team won a game, but the 5-on-5 team went 1-3 in pool play...Online dating service raided for swindling
Japanese police raided 23 facilities of a free online dating operation in Yokohama Friday, suspected of swindling millions of dollars with false promises. Police in Kanagawa prefecture suspect that “Nihon Global System” used deceptive advertising and...Care Concepts buying iBill from Penthouse for $55 Million
Care Concepts I, Inc. (AMEX:IBD), a media and marketing holding company, announced today it has entered into an agreement to acquire 100% of Media Billing, LLC and Internet Billing Company(R) (collectively “iBill”) from Penthouse International (Pink...Terra Lycos sells Lycos to Daum for $105 million
Terra Lycos is selling its Lycos assets to Daum Communications. Lycos represented about 16 percent of its total earnings in 2003. Terra originally purchased Lycos, based in Waltham, Massachusetts, in May 2000 in a stock deal worth $12.5 billion. How will this affect...Naked Speed Dating in the UK
First it was low-tech “Dogging”, where people prowl picnic spots, car parks and other such places to watch strangers having sex. Then it was “Toothing”, people hooking up using the bluetooth functionality of their mobile phones. Now, it’s...Mobile social software applications
The Social networking world has embraced mobile phone apps and are leaving the dating world in the dust. Match admits the only thing they get out of mobile dating is exposure to the 20-something audience, revenue is marginal. Imagine being single and out on Saturday...Userplane Introduces Flash-Based Web Chat System
As soon as I mentioned Mike’s article this came across the wire. Userplane announced Userplane Web Chat(TM) — a multi-user web text chat room system — and announced the latest deployment of Web Chat on Connexion.org, an increasingly popular...
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