TELEGRAPH.CO.UK — Dec 11 — Hamsarchat.com, which promises to help users find husbands and wives, was fined and ordered to pay back money collected from clients. The site marketed itself as "Iran's most complete spouse-finding website" and promised to link members with "the closest person or persons to your standards" in return for a 25,000 rial (£1.66) fee, the paper said. Potential clients were asked how they felt about a partner's hijab and invited them to state their attitude towards religion. One option was "free of religion". Another question asked if the user was looking for permanent marriage, Islamic temporary marriage or "unknown". FULL ARTICLE @ TELEGRAPH.CO.UK
Month: December 2008
New Dating Site Goes Exclusive
PRESS RELEASE — Dec 11 — LesbianCherryPie.com is a dating and matchmaking service for lesbians seeking other lesbians who are looking for long-term relationships. The price starts @ $11.95 a month. FULL ARTICLE @ LIVE-PR
Meetic: We Are Unbeatable In France
OPW — Dec 11 — In spite of Match.com's assaults on the French market or other challengers such as BE2(Germany), Meetic is able to maintain a comfortable market share in France. Their CEO Marc Simoncini remains vigilant in his domestic market. He refuses to give up sub-segment niches such as VIP dating or Affinity Meetings (Common interest dating). As far as social networks like Facebook, it is estimated that their activities are "complementary"… we'll see. Other work in progress: Marc Simoncini announces for 2009 "a real mobile service" still in the online personals segment. – Translated by Pat Dines, CEO of Mary.com.
The Real Cougar Woman Radio Interview
BLOG TALK RADIO — Dec 10 — The Real Cougar Woman Radio was coined by Linda Franklin who has a website, RealCougarWoman.com. Linda focuses on real concerns of today’s Cougar Woman – wellness, beauty and relationships. Her co-host Bonnie D. Graham interviewed Steve Pammenter, the co-founder of WhiteLabelDating.com and Toy Boy. ToyBoy.com is specifically aimed at girls that are interested in meeting younger guys. “It’s not sexual and purely relationship based. We did a lot of research before we launched ToyBoy and we noticed there was a lot of communication between people of completely different ages”, he said.
The full article was originally published at Blog Talk Radio, but is no longer available.
Crisis Fans Matchmaking Boom
ASIA ONE — Dec 10 — Matchmaking is booming in South Korea amid the global economic crisis, as fathers facing redundancy rush their children into marriage and jobless women find financial security in married life. Matchmaker Duo saw the number of visitors jump to 35,000 in the second week of November from 23,800 in the first week of September. Many parents sign up for the service because they want to get their children married off while fathers are still in work, Hyeong Nam-Kyu, a Duo director, told AFP. FULL ARTICLE @ ASIA ONE
One In Three Women Would End A Relationship Over An ‘Inadequate’ Christmas Gift
PR NEWSWIRE — Dec 10 — Research by free dating site FreeDating.co.uk
found that 36% of women would end a relationship over an 'inadequate'
Christmas gift. Examples of gifts which were deemed inadequate included
cooking utensils, cleaning products, and a sticky tape dispenser.
Highly educated women were much more likely to end a relationship for
this reason than those with no qualifications. Just 17% of men would
end a relationship over their partner's choice of Christmas present. FULL ARTICLE @ THE EARTH TIMES
SNAP Seeks Explosive Growth
EQUITIES MAGAZINE — Dec 9 — After starting out as a stand-alone
online dating website called IamFreeTonight, Snap transformed itself
into a developer of online applications for social networks including
"Are You Interested," "Meet New People," and "Flirt With Me."
The
company now boasts more than 17m installations of its application.
Revenue, which is generated primarily through advertising sales, grew
to $871,324 in the third quarter from $533,257 in the previous quarter.
One trend helping SNAP is the widening gap between online traffic to
social networks like Facebook, which grew 84% over the past year in the
US alone, according to Compete.com. Match.com and AmericanSingles.com
were down 35% and 68%, respectively, from the previous year. FULL ARTICLE @ EQUITIES MAGAZINE
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Friendster Expands Its Portfolio With Fourth SN Patent
PR NEWSWIRE — Dec 9 — Friendster announced that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has awarded Facebook a new U.S. Patent, titled "Compatibility Scoring of Users in a Social Network". Friendster has been granted four patents since July 2006. Friendster's latest patent describes a unique methodology used to calculate compatibility based on expressed interests between users of a social network.
The full article was originally published at MarketWatch, but is no longer available.
Mark Brooks: Friendster indicates an interest in internet dating with this move.
Dating Metrosexuals Is A Thing Of The Past
WESTENDER — Dec 8 — The survey of over 700 female members of RSVP.com.au, Australia’s largest online dating site, saw 93% of respondents saying they would like to date a “tradie”. Almost half the women surveyed (49%) believe tradesmen are “more relaxed and fun than men in stuffy suits”. “Sexy and strong” was the most popular reason (28%), followed by “not afraid to get their hands dirty” (20%) as well as “handy around the house and garden” (15%).
The full article was originally published at Westender, but is no longer available.
Dating Site For Lonely Farmers
NOMISWEB — Nov 24 — Nearly a quarter of all households found in rural areas of the UK, including Lincolnshire, Yorkshire and Derbyshire are single occupancy, while marriage rates among the under 30s are falling, research reveals. And prospects are worst for men, who outnumber women in Lincolnshire alone by 13,000. Kissinggates.com is a new website designed to help country-minded people find fun, friendship and romance.