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IAC's Match.com Buys People Media Dating Sites for $80M

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on July 7, 2009 - 6:19am.
New York - IAC (NASD: IACI), the Internet holding company that operates sites including Citysearch and Match.com, announced on Monday that its Match.com dating site will acquire People Media, an operator of dating sites, from American Capital Ltd. for $80 million in cash.
tags: Deals | Acquisitions | IAC | Dating | American Capital | People Media |

Online Social Dating Community Zooks Lands $6 Million

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on June 16, 2009 - 7:45am.
San Francisco - Zoosk, an online social dating community, announced on Tuesday that it has raised $6 million in third round financing, led by previous backer Canaan Partners.
tags: Deals | VC | Social Networking | Dating | Canaan Partners | Zoosk |

Guy Kawasaki: Markus Frind, Founder of PlentyOfFish, is my Hero

Authored by Guy Kawasaki on June 25, 2007 - 9:14am.

Markus Frind, the founder of PlentyOfFish.com is my new hero (James Hong of Hot or Not is a close second). Marcus spends about two hours a day in his underwear managing a free dating website that gets twelve billion page views a year. He is the only employee, and he only has one server. And by the way, he makes $5-6 million/year with Google ads.
tags: Internet | Marketing | Dating | PlentyOfFish |

Stress On Valentine’s Day and The Imbalanced Status Of Love Online

Authored by Jay Baage on February 14, 2007 - 12:42pm.
If you are a man looking for a female Valentine, your best bet is Love Access, which comprised 87.4 percent female visitors last week. Unfortunately the status of online dating for women does not look that good.
tags: Internet | Marketing | Metrics | Dating |

Mobile Video Dating Tech Firm Mobestar Acquires Mobile Life

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on November 20, 2006 - 6:23pm.
London - Mobestar, a developer of mobile video technology, announced on Monday that it has acquired the assets of U.K.-based Mobile Life Consulting for $664,000.
tags: Deals | Mobile | Video | Tech | UK | Acquisitions | Dating | Mobestar | Mobile Life |

Hands-On Develops Mobile "Flirting" Game for NBC's "Blind Date"

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on October 24, 2006 - 1:43pm.
San Francisco - Mobile game publisher Hands-On Mobile (formerly Mforma) announced on Tuesday a deal with NBC Universal to develop "Blind Date"-branded mobile flirting and chatting applications. The "Flirting by Blind Date" application allows users screen and set up potential blind dates via text messages that match their preferences to other singles using the service.
tags: Games | Mobile | Mobile Games | Tech | TV | Hands-On | Text Messaging | Dating | NBC | Blind Date |

Sex and the Digital Gadget Guy

Authored by Scott Goldberg on October 17, 2006 - 9:24am.
iPod KissFiguring out how to meet a girl is one of the three biggest challenges a man faces in his life, and if the amount of time spent thinking about girls is added up...well, let’s just say we spend a lot of time on the subject. Jonathan Abrams, the founder of Friendster, apparently had difficulty with it himself. “Basically,” said Mark J. Pincus, a seed investor of Friendster, in the New York Times, “Jonathan wanted to meet girls.” And as if that didn’t sell poor Jonathan down the river enough, Pincus added, “He told me himself, he started Friendster as a way to surf through his friends’ address books for good-looking girls.”

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tags: Social Networking | Music | iPod | Friendster | Dating | PMP | Steve Jobs | Gadgets | Zune | Scott Goldberg |

QSoft Taps Mobestar to Create Gaydar Mobile Service

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on September 21, 2006 - 8:29am.
London - QSoft Consulting, owner of European gay media sites including Gaydar and RainbowNetwork.com, announced Thursday that it has partnered with Mobestar to launch a new mobile dating service. The WAP-based Gaydar Mobile service will be available on most mobile phones, with live voice and video calls enabled for 2.5G and 3G subscribers. The service will initially launch for Gaydar.co.uk's 1.1 million subscribers, eventually expanding to cover Australia and Continental Europe in 2007.
tags: Mobile | Dating | QSoft | Mobestar | Gaydar |

Heavy.com Launches "Massive Mating Game"

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on August 16, 2006 - 3:52pm.
New York - Broadband entertainment site Heavy.com on Wednesday announced the launch of an online dating game, "Massive Mating Game," that will use the Internet and text messages to pair a "Heavy Hottie" chosen by site visitors with one grand prize winner for a date and weekend trip to Las Vegas.
tags: Games | Video | Broadband | Text Messaging | Heavy.com | Dating |

Matchmaker-Influenced Personals Site Engage.com Raises $5 Million

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on July 12, 2006 - 12:41pm.
San Francisco - Engage.com, a personals site that engages friends and family to help with matchmaking, announced on Wednesday that it has raised $5 million in its first round of venture capital financing.
tags: Deals | Internet | VC | Online Publishing | Dating | Engage.com | Personals | Advanced Technology Ventures |

MTV Show to Match Dates Based Solely on Hard Drive Contents

Authored by dmw on May 5, 2006 - 9:05am.
New York - MTV Networks announced that it plans to debut a new show called "Meet or Delete," in which college students will choose prospective dates, roommates and band members based solely on the contents of their computers' hard drives. "PCs have become the emotional hard drive of our global audience, making the premise of 'Meet or Delete' relevant everywhere in the world," said MTV Networks president and COO Michael Wolf. Participants will be able to see e-mails, IM logs, pictures, music playlists, recently viewed websites, video files and whatever else is on the hard drives of prospective dates. MTV is collaborating with PC maker HP on the show, which will be broadcast on MTV's on-air, online and wireless platforms beginning May 10.
tags: Launches | Internet | Video | Social Networking | TV | MTV | Dating | TV Launches |

New Network Mobile Creates Dating Service for "Loveline" Radio Show

Authored by dmw on April 25, 2006 - 1:08pm.
New York - Mobile entertainment publisher New Network Mobile said on Tuesday that it will develop and host a subscription-based text-messaging dating service for Westwood One's "Loveline" radio program, hosted by Dr. Drew Pinsky. The text message-based dating service will cost listeners $4.99 per month.
tags: Pricing | Mobile | Internet | Marketing | Subscriptions | Radio | New Network Mobile | Dating |