2012-02-07 04:38:10
FORBES - Feb 5 - Now, at least one in every six new marriages are between people who met on a dating site. This, of course, is fantastic news for Mandy Ginsberg, President of Match.com. With Valentine?s Day just around the corner, Ginsberg shares her own ?algorithm? for success, why business school doesn?t have anything on single parenting, and why flirting at work may not be such a bad thing after all. Q: What advice would you give other women who want to be innovative and ?follow the rules? at the same time? A: Being agile, innovative and decisive are critical. Q: What?s the best thing you?ve ever done for your career? A: Pushing myself to do things that were out of my comfort zone. Q: What your advice is for someone who has a crush on a colleague? A: I met my husband at my last company while we were working on a project together. Sometimes acting on those crushes at the office might not be a bad thing. Happily, it worked for me. Q: Match.com is a company that has managed to grow amid a very significant recession. Aside from having a great product, to what do you...
2012-02-04 04:38:13
PRESS RELEASE - Feb 2 - UK-based adult dating site Shagbook.com is now offering a mobile-enabled version of its website, allowing daters the option of accessing the site from their smart phones and tablets, from anywhere in the world. See full article at PR Inside See all posts on Shagbook
2012-02-04 04:38:12
4TRADERS - Feb 2 - Meetic"s 2011 consolidated annual revenue was 178.3M Eur, down 4.2% YOY. Q4 2011 revenue was 42.1M Eur. The Group had 762,099 subscribers on 31st December 2011, compared to 858,197 subscribers on 31st December 2010. Monthly ARPU (Average Revenue Per User) was 17.2 Eur in 2011 (18.9M Eur in 2010). See full article at 4Traders See all posts on Meetic
2012-02-03 04:38:13
MATCH.COM BLOG - Feb 2 - "Singles in America", Match.com"s second annual study on singles, dives deep into how singles are living and thinking in 2012. ~5,K singles participated in the survey. The Singles in America study was funded by Match.com in association with biological anthropologist, Dr. Helen Fisher; sex and relationship therapist, Dr. Laura Berman; evolutionary biologist with The Kinsey Institute at Indiana University, Dr. Justin R. Garcia; and the Institute for Evolutionary Studies (EvoS) at Binghamton University. Here are just a few of the study?s most groundbreaking results: Fidelity is regarded as a more important quality in the U.S. president than in a partner. 62% of men and 80% of women say that sexual fidelity in a relationship is a ?must have.? But almost 9 out of 10 respondents believe there are ?no acceptable excuses? for infidelity by a political candidate (87% of men and 91% of women). Men are more willing to make a commitment without being in love or feeling sexually attracted to their partner. Singles over 60 are most likely to insist on a partnership that includes sexual attraction and romance. See full article at Match.com Blog See all posts on Match.com
2012-02-02 04:38:15
FAST COMPANY - Jan 27 - Dr. Pepper Schwartz is the author of The Love Test, The Great Sex Weekend, Everything You Know About Love and Sex is Wrong, and more. She"s a professor of sociology at the University of Washington in Seattle who mugs on behalf of PerfectMatch.com, where she co-developed The Duet® Total Compatibility System. On the final day of the iDate conference, Schwartz told the audience her system is based on the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. Joining her was Dr. Eli Finkel who staked out his own territory as industry-scold, denouncing eHarmony. eHarmony has refused to reveal its algorithm, Finkel said, and therefore the company should not advertise a scientific approach to matching until it can show, publicly, that its system works according to the standards of scientific rigor. Today it"s not the professor-backed dating sites but the ones run by math geeks that seem to be on top. Sam Yagan, a cofounder of OkCupid.com (sold to Match.com for $90M), responded to Drs. Finkel and Schwartz with an occasional eye roll. He dispatched a very brief, slide-assisted explanation of OkCupid"s matching process. The users are not required to answer any questions. But the site is premised on the...
2012-02-01 04:38:18
PR WEB ? Jan 27 ? Sugar Daddy dating site SeekingArrangement.com, the largest sugar daddy and sugar baby dating site, has announced the launch of its new anonymous phone calling service named ?ICALLU? that allows members to call each other anonymous through a Voice over IP (VoIP) server. According to the site, over 55% of its members are concerned about privacy and giving out their phone number, and 32% of members have had a negative experience after giving out their real phone number to strangers in the past. The new service, which costs 99 cents per minute domestically and $1.99 per minute internationally, will help protect members? privacy while still allowing them to make a connection over the phone. Founder & CEO Brandon Wade expects the cost of the service to drop over time as more members being using it. See full article at PR Web See all posts on SeekingArrangement
2012-01-31 04:38:18
MARKETWATCH ? Jan 25 ? Leading internet and technology company FriendFinder Networks Inc. has announced the implementation of a cost reduction initiation to more closely align with its new business model. CEO Marc Bell stated that the company is taking steps to reduce their operating costs as part of their efforts to reorganize their operations. In an effort to reduce operating expenses and increase shareholder value, the company is consolidating their global offices to fewer locations and relocating several operations to their main facility in Sunnyvale, CA. See full article at MarketWatch See all posts on FriendFinder
2012-01-30 04:38:18
FAST COMPANY ? Jan 25 ? Startup web app WotWentWrong has set out to solve the ?mystery of why promising new romances ended unexpectedly or successful first dates vanished? by allowing users to provide feedback to each other on exactly what went wrong, hoping improve their own dating karma and help their unsuccessful dates find better luck in the future. Features of the site include the WotWentWrong List, with pre-defined explanations for breaking up with someone, proactive feedback from exes with suggestions for future dates, and anonymous stats that shows your romantic success against others online. by Austin Carr See full article at Fast Company
2012-01-26 04:38:23
MIAMI HERALD - Jan 25 - Three Florida schools, including Florida International University, have had so many students join a sugar-daddy dating site that they?ve been included in the site?s ?Top 20? universities of 2011. For the women on Seeking Arrangement.com, what they?re seeking is often dollar-specific: as much as $10K a month, or more, to date a certain well-heeled man. College students make up about 40% of the Sugar Babies on SeekingArrangement.com. 10 to 20 escorts are removed daily. by Michael Vasquez See full article at Miami Herald See all posts on SeekingArrangement
2012-01-24 04:38:25
PINK NEWS - Jan 23 - The Sydney Morning Herald reported that a hacker had listed sensitive profile information online, allowing Grindr users to be impersonated. Grindr said last week only a small number of Australian users had been affected by the hacker?s site, but it would be taking urgent measures to protect security. Address and credit card information was not hacked. by Stephen Gray See full article at Pink News See all posts on Grindr