USATODAY.com - Lifeline Live:
Last week, FunnyorDie came up with a spoof of a Match.com ad for Jon Gosselin. Now they've managed to get ahold of Kate Gosselin's ad: Kate Gosselin Match.com Profile Video - watch more funny videos
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feeds.reuters.com:
IAC chief Barry Diller has spent the last year building and then sitting on a pile of cash, which rose to $2 billion in the first quarter — only some $400 million less than its entire market cap of $2.4 billion. Journalists a (Read More)
paidContent.org:
Broad-based online dating site Match.com is buying into the targeted subscription dating business with the acquisition of People Media from American Capital Ltd. and various investors for $80 million in cash. The deal will ad (Read More)
USATODAY.com - Lifeline Live:
Hey, did you know Jon Gosselin's already on Match.com? FunnyorDie came up with the concept. Afer all, Who wouldn't want to date a guy with 8 kids and an ex-wife? Check out what Jon's looking for in a mate: Match.com-Jon...
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observer.guardian.co.uk:
Ten years ago, Henry Badenhorst helped a friend find a date online - and the idea for Gaydar was born. But with success came scandal - and the tragic death of his long-term partner. Here, the man behind the world's biggest da (Read More)
The Guardian:
21st-century solution to loneliness or cringe-inducing cyber hell? Nearly five million Britons are searching for love online, but are they looking in the wrong place? Tanya Gold investigatesI am in a cafe in London, waiting f (Read More)
VentureBeat:
A couple of weeks ago, John Pleasants told me how excited he was to help Electronic Arts make the transition from its perch at the top of traditional media — the video game console market — to the age of new business models i (Read More)
paidContent.org:
The backdrop behind the front desk in the lobby of IAC's Chelsea headquarters shows glittering lights on a world map, each one signaling a visit to one of the company's websites—more than 835 million across its network in Apr (Read More)
NY Post:
Oh, the heartache! A Brooklyn man sued Match.com yesterday for inflicting "humiliation and disappointment" on lonely hearts "who feel rejected when their e-mails get no reply." Sean McGinn alleges the popular matchmaking (Read More)
paidContent.org:
So what if IAC (NSDQ: IACI) decided to go after Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) Personals, as Barry Diller suggested it might Wednesday? A combination of the two properties would certainly make strategic sense. Bernstein & Co. Analyst Je (Read More)
TechCrunch:
Online dating site Match.com is releasing a native iPhone application for its 15 million members to date on the go. The app allows users to edit their profile, upload photos, and even has an opt-in to a location based feature (Read More)
TechCrunch:
After Meetic buying the European operations of Match.com last week, here’s another sign the online media landscape in Europe is changing in the face of a dire economy: pan-European online media company GoAdv will later (Read More)
Mashable!:
David Spark (@dspark) is a veteran tech journalist and founder of Spark Media Solutions, a firm that helps companies build their industry voice through storytelling. His technology report, The Spark Minute, can be heard every (Read More)
TechCrunch:
Juniper Research has just released a new report that claims the value of the mobile dating and chatroom market will grow to nearly $1.4 billion by 2013, and also pegs the total UGC market to reach $7.3 billion by the same tim (Read More)
TechCrunch:
This post was written by guest contributor Mark Brooks, an analyst/consultant whose blog Online Personals Watch summarizes the daily internet dating industry news.Earlier this week InterActive Corporation (IAC), which owns an (Read More)
Mashable!:
A recent launch suggests that the web’s love affair with paid dating sites may be coming to an end. DowntoEarth is a new, completely free dating site with an interesting pedigree: according to DowntoEarth’s Priva (Read More)