Month: March 2011

DISCOVERY NEWS – Mar 3 – “Most people believe that given the opportunity, everything else equal, people will lie more online than they would face-to-face,” said Jeff Hancock, an associate professor of communications at Cornell University. Just like face-to-face lying, there’s a cost-benefits evaluation involved in online deception. For example, Hancock and Toma’s research on deception in online dating has found that ~80% of people pepper their profiles with “very, very small” lies, such as a man saying he’s 6 feet tall, when he’s really 5 feet 10 inches. Fudging one’s height is a minor cost with a major self-presentation benefit of looking more appealing to potential partners.

by Cristen Conger
See full article at Discovery News

Pasadena, Calif.-based eHarmony launched in 2000 and is the Internet’s No. 1 trusted relationship services provider in the United States and also offers its services in Australia and Canada. eHarmony’s singles matching service presents users with compatible matches based on key dimensions of personality that are scientifically proven to predict happier, healthier long-term relationships. In addition to the singles matching service, eHarmony operates eHarmony Labs, a relationship research facility, and publishes eHarmony Advice, a growing relationship advice site. In 2007, eHarmony was ranked No. 5 in Deloitte’s prestigious Technology Fast 50 Program and in 2008 eHarmony won the distinguished Entretech Annual Entrepreneurship Award in the Growth Company Category. eHarmony is a privately-held company and shareholders include Technology Crossover Ventures, Sequoia Capital and Fayez Sarofim & Co.
Website:	http://www.eharmony.com
Owned by:	a privately-held company. Shareholders include Technology Crossover Ventures, Sequoia Capital and Fayez Sarofim & Co.
CEO:	Dr Neil Clark Warren
Business address:	2401 Colorado Avenue Suite A200 Santa Monica CA 90404
Phone:	(800) 951-2023
Email / Contact form:	http://www.eharmony.com/about/news/contact
Number of employees:	242 (LinkedIn, Oct 2011)
Blog:	http://www.eharmony.com/labs/category/blog/
Wikipedia page:	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eharmony
Twitter:	http://twitter.com/eharmony
Facebook:	http://www.facebook.com/eharmony
LinkedIn:	http://www.linkedin.com/company/eharmony.com
Date Started:	2000
Founders:	Dr Neil Clark Warren & Dr Galen Buckwalter
Investments:	12/2004 –  $110 Million by Silicon Valley VC Firms
Acquisitions:	8/2009 – JustMommies.com 10/2009 – WeddingBee 07/2011 – sold its wedding and parenting websites, ProjectWedding.com, Weddingbee.com, and JustMommies.com
Subsidiaries:	eHarmony Labs CompatiblePartners (launched in Mar 2009) Jazzed (launched in Aug 2010, closed in Sep 2012)
Countries served:	United States, Canada, Australia and the United Kingdom, Brazil
Business model:	paid dating site 12 month $239.40 6 month  $179.70 3 month  $119.85 1 month   $59.95
Category:	general
Affiliate program:	http://www.eharmony.com/about/affiliates
Traffic:	1 153 340 unique visitors (Compete, June 2015)
eHarmony news on OnlinePersonalsWatch

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Website: www.cupidmedia.com

Company profile: Cupid Media is a digital media and internet information services company that operates innovative, database driven interactive dating sites focused on niche markets based on ethnicity, religion, physical appearance, sexual preference or special interests. They are one Australia’s biggest dating companies with 35 niche websites that specialize in everything from singles who value religion, to physical appearance. Cupid Media currently has about 15 million profiles from more than 50 different countries. They receive about 15,000 to 20,000 new members.

Date started:    2000, Australian based company
Current CEO:     Andrew Bolton (since April 2000)
Parent Company: Ecom Holdings Pty Ltd
Acquisitions:     Muslim Matrimonials Network (name changed to Muslima.com)
Blog:               http://cupidmedia.wordpress.com/
Number of employees: up to 50 (LinkedIn; Nov ’10)
Based in:          Level 5, 2502/5 Lawson Street
                      Southport QLD 4215
                      Australia
Email:              team@cupidmedia.com

List of CM dating sites:
AfroIntroductions.com
AsianDating.com
AussieCupid.com.au
BBWCupid.com
BlackCupid.com
BrazilCupid.com
CaribbeanCupid.com
ChineseLoveLinks.com
ChristianCupid.com
ColombianCupid.com
DominicanCupid.com
FilipinoCupid.com
GayCupid.com
HongKongCupid.com
IndianCupid.com
IndonesianCupid.com
InternationalCupid.com
InterracialCupid.com
IranianSinglesConnection.com
JapanCupid.com
KenyanCupid.com
KoreanCupid.com
LatinAmericanCupid.com
MalaysianCupid.com
MexicanCupid.com
MilitaryCupid.com
Muslima.com
OnlineDatingSafetyTips.com
PinkCupid.com
RussianEuro.com
SingaporeLoveLinks.com
SingleParentLove.com
SouthAfricanCupid.com
ThaiLoveLinks.com
UkraineDate.com
VietnamCupid.com

Cupid Media news on OPW

Courtland Brooks clients can access the top 20 company profiles.

PRESS RELEASE – Feb 23 – Global Personals has launched a new dating site FlirtNaughty.com in response to consumers requiring a “casual, fun and safe dating experience.” Paul Fitzpatrick, Head of Consumer Marketing at Global Personals, comments: “Lots of dating sites are geared towards meeting the perfect long term partner or your future husband or wife – some daters just aren’t looking for this. FlirtNaughty.com aims to inject some casual fun into the market where members can use a variety of great site functions to control their dating experience and get exactly what they want.”