The Sydney Morning Herald National Headlines:
IN A profession notoriously resilient to hard times, online dating sites threaten to do what the global financial crisis could not - send the sex services industry broke. (Read More)
paidContent.org:
Video-based chat service Paltalk has acquired Vumber, a service that provides “disposable” phone numbers. Terms weren’t disclosed. New York-based PalTalk began working with Vumb (Read More)
Philadelphia Online Relationships Examiner:
Following the money trail: It's much easier online.In my previous article concerning a conspiracy amongst online dating sites, I mentioned that my blanket approach to reviewing online dating sites lead to the accidental disco (Read More)
VentureBeat:
Background checks have been around for a long time now, but Crederity wants to bring an easier, web-oriented approach to verifying that someone is trustworthy. In addition to its business tools, the New York company is also r (Read More)
Huffington Post:
NEW YORK — Looking for love? Try leaning in for a ... cheek swab.A couple of genetic testing companies are promising to match couples based on the DNA testing, touting the benefits of biological compatibility. The comp (Read More)
MSNBC:
Some genetic testing companies are promising to match couples based on the DNA testing, touting the benefits of biological compatibility.
DNA - DNA profiling - Online dating service - Forensic science - Science in Society. (Read More)
Philadelphia Online Relationships Examiner:
Do you want to find a match or not? That's a serious question.One staple of any good dating site is its ability to match prospective singles with each other. In the case of two of the best dating sites out there, eHarmony and (Read More)
Silicon Alley Insider:
IAC's new M&A boss is company vet Shana Fisher.The top dealmaker post at IAC had been split between Shana and Joey Levin -- Joey doing the financial side, Shana doing the strategic.Read the rest of this story »See Also:Top NB (Read More)
Washington Post:
A recent study by four academics, including professors from Harvard Business School and Duke University, suggests that online dating sites regularly leave users disappointed because they present potential matches as a rundown (Read More)
Huffington Post:
SAN FRANCISCO — IAC/InterActiveCorp, which runs Match.com, Ask.com and other Web sites, said Tuesday that asset sales helped it profit in the third quarter while advertising revenue continued to slump.The results for IAC, whi (Read More)
Gawker:
Conde Nast's having survival issues. Not to worry. Despite shuttering Gourmet and clearing out all the Orangina, Si's got a brand new bag: a Conde Nast dating site. We test-drove it with a profile on...
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Gawker:
Conde Nast's having survival issues. Not to worry. Despite shuttering Gourmet and clearing out all orange non-sodas, Si's got a brand new bag: a Conde Nast dating site. We test-drove it with a...
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Dating a new person has always been risky business. So many questions come to mind before that first date, especially if you’re meeting people at bars or through online dating sites. Intellius hopes to give singles a little p (Read More)
VentureBeat:
Gelato is a startup that wants to marry the real-time stream with online dating (not to mention maybe real people).Instead of creating a profile, Gelato pulls in updates from your Facebook profile, Twitter account, Netflix qu (Read More)
Gawker:
The 'Cougar' phenomenon—which never grows old, or loses its journalistic depth—is trickling down to the more...average precincts of American trendwatching. The Wilkes-Barre (PA) Times Leader went "on the prowl" for local coug (Read More)
VentureBeat:
Thread, a dating site that uses Facebook’s social graph to suggest potential matches, raised $1.2 million from angel investor Ron Conway, Sequoia Capital and First Round Capital.The site, founded by some of PayPal’s original (Read More)
Philadelphia Online Relationships Examiner:
A perfect example of Internet Disease on dating sites.The pictures that people use in internet profiles have come under such scrutiny that they have their own meme. Then again, everything has its own internet meme these days, (Read More)
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed:
SAN FRANCISCO — IAC/InterActiveCorp, the company behind such Internet properties as Match.com, Ask and Citysearch, posted a second-quarter profit that fell short of analyst expectations Wednesday and indicated the online ad m (Read More)
VentureBeat:
What does the Sprint-Virgin hookup actually mean for cellular customers? — “The answer is … probably nothing,” claims my fellow New York Times Gadgetwise blogger Roy Furchgott. As a guy who reports doggedly on the wireless in (Read More)