Month: April 2011

True.com Applauds Match.com For Implementing Sex Offender Screening

Posted on April 28, 2011

True logo PR NEWSWIRE – Apr 27 – TRUE.com applauds Match.com for stating its plans to put in place sex offender screening features that TRUE has employed for years. TRUE.com president Ruben Buell said: "TRUE has been protecting its members by screening for sex offenders, murderers, burglars, people accused of extreme domestic violence, and other felons for years. We certainly congratulate Match.com for seeing these features are necessary." TRUE routinely rejects ~5% of its applicants – denying access to ~300Kpeople in the 8 years they have been in the online dating space.

The full article was originally published at PR Newswire, but is no longer available.

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Get Daily Dates Instead Of Daily Deals With InboxCupid

Posted on April 28, 2011

Inboxcupid logo MASHABLE – Apr 28 – Instead of offering email subscribers a daily deal per city, InboxCupid serves up a featured dater per city. Would-be online daters subscribe to InboxCupid in their city and specify who they’re interested in dating. Users then wait for InboxCupid to fill their inboxes with daily featured dates. If users like what they see, they hit the “Inbox Me” button to message the featured date and see if there’s a match. To make the connection, InboxCupid charges the interested dater $1. Those who want to be the featured daily date are required to create a profile and answer five questions.

by Jennifer Van Grove
See full article at Mashable

Mark Brooks: This is a handy way to generate new email signups.  On Tuesday we're launching DailyDealsObserver.com to illuminate the top news in the Daily Deals (a la Groupon) business.

Oasis Active: Top Australian Dating Site

Posted on April 28, 2011
Oasis active logo PRESS RELEASE – Apr 28 - Australian dating site Oasis Active is now the most frequently visited Australian site in the lifestyle and dating category, according to Experian Hitwise. Launched in April 2008, the free dating site now has more 1M Australian members. 

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Code Red! Texas Bill 488 PASSED The House And The Senate

Posted on April 28, 2011

Paragraf OPW – Apr 28 – SB 488, the Texas bill that requires online dating services clearly disclose whether they conduct criminal background checks and the parameters of those background checks, is on its way to the governnor for approval. If he signs it is law. That makes Online Dating use background Checks. It's a harsh Bill.

Freeway’s 2010 Profit At € 15M

Posted on April 27, 2011

Freeway logo PRESS RELEASE – Apr 27 - Freeway Holding, the company that owns, controls and invests in several Danish and European tech startups, earned a profit of 15M € for the fiscal year 2010. Freeway operates Dating.dk, which claims to be the market leader in online dating in Denmark.

IAC/Match.com Reports Q1 Results

Posted on April 27, 2011

Iac logo PR NEWSWIRE – Apr 27 – Match.com core revenue increased 18% to $93.3M driven by a 22% increase in subscribers. Developing revenue increased 82% to $18.3M driven by the full quarter contribution of Singlesnet, as well as from the venture with Meetic in Latin America and the acquisition of OkCupid, neither of which were reflected in the year ago results. Subscribers logging in through mobile grew 135% YOY to 30% of total on Match.com U.S.

For more details visit the link on the side bar under 'FINANCIALS'

See full article at IAC

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Class Action Lawsuit May Halt Jiayuan.com‘s U.S. IPO

Posted on April 27, 2011

Jiayuan logo new 21CBH – Apr 27 – Jiayuan.com, China’s largest online dating site, is facing a class action lawsuit that could hamper its IPO in the U.S. Liu Qing, a user of the company’s premium service, is accusing Jiayuan.com of aiding fraudulent activity on its services. Liu said he was “swindled” by other users of Jiayuan.com because of false information on the website. Liu said the website operator ignored his complaints for a year, and has called on other victims to join him in the class action lawsuit.

The full article was originally published at 21CBH, but is no longer available.

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Plentyoffish Redesign, At Laaast

Posted on April 26, 2011

Plentyoffish partial screenshot OPW – Apr 26 – A POF power-user emailed me. "Plenty Of Fish completely revamped their whole layout to a clean sleek readable logical (for the most part) page with great colors and a much better photo compression scheme that makes jpeg's look very high quality." Very impressive! It's about time.

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