BARRON'S – Oct 7 – Greg Blatt, a deal-savvy CEO, is leading IAC/InterActiveCorp's transformation. IAC retains 23 operating businesses and more than 150 Web and media-related brands, all of which garner 5.91 billion page views per month. Blatt cut his teeth in mergers and acquisitions. In nearly two years as CEO, Blatt has completed nine deals of his own, costing $700M. The wheeling and dealing that defined IAC might well continue, although Blatt predicts that the company's two main businesses—online dating and Internet search—are here to stay. IAC dominates the former through Match.com and 30 other dating sites, and offers search services through Ask.com and dozens of apps. Combined, these businesses accounted for ~75% of the company's $2B in revenue in 2011. Half of Match.com subscribers sign on to the site with a mobile device. But there no longer is a Match.com iPhone app. IAC pulled it because Apple wanted 30% of Match.com revenue generated through an iPhone app, a proportion Blatt calls egregious compared with the 2% to 3% retailers pay to credit-card companies on the Internet. Match.com switched to an HTML5 application.
Month: October 2012
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GPS Dating Is Getting More Popular
ABC LOCAL – Oct 5 – Finding love the smartphone way is a trend that is definitely taking off. SinglesAroundMe says ~20K singles install the app each week. OkCupid reports 1M of its 3M users utilize the GPS feature. And HowAboutWe estimates that 1 in 4 of its online daters are now incorporating location based dating into their search for a soul mate. One of the biggest problems with GPS dating is the immediacy of it. MeetMoi, which sends profiles of people in your general location, says they never share a user's exact location. SinglesAroundMe has privacy options that allow users to turn off their location GPS or to hide their profile.
by Leslie Sykes
See full article at ABC Local
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MeetMe Enhances Mobile Offer Wall With Video
PRESS RELEASE – Oct 3 – MeetMe has added video to its mobile Offer Wall through Tapjoy, a mobile advertising and publishing platform. Users may watch sponsored video and participate in other activities in exchange for MeetMe's virtual currency, MeetMe Credits. Video is available on both Android and iPhone. "Our Q2 results showed virtual currency now accounts for more than half of mobile revenue," said Bill Alena, Chief Revenue Officer.
This post also appears on SocialNetworkingWatch.
Digital 100: The Most Valuable Private Tech Companies
PLENTY OF FISH BLOG – Oct 4 – POF made Business Insider's top 100 private tech companies again this year. Plentyoffish is the only boot strapped company on that list. Raising a ton of money is often a very bad thing for companies, what people fail to realize is when you bring in a lot of people each one of them impacts the product because of things they do on a day to day basis. If you need to raise money do it after the product is figured out, or have as few people as possible working on product up to that point. If something is built by a big team there won’t be anyone that has the deep domain knowledge of how and why things work.
Dating Factory Wins YNOT Award For Best Dating Technology
PR WEB – Oct 3 – At the 2nd annual YNOT Awards announced in Sep 25th in Prague, Dating Factory, the White Label Dating provider, was named the winner of this year’s Award for The Best Dating Technology Provider. YNOT Awards recognize the best and most innovative companies in the Adult Internet Business.
Traditional Matchmaking Goes On-Line
PR WEB – Oct 3 – FeaturedDate.com, a new Silicon Valley start-up, is going to offer a hosted, online video conference dating event. Daters will be showcased and promoted to singles by the company and personally matched, based on their own individualized compatibility needs and requirements.
Seek.ly: Video Speed Dating
MARKETWIRE – Oct 2 – Seek.ly, the newest video speed-dating platform, has launched at the DEMO Fall 2012 Conference in Santa Clara, CA. Users participate in live 5-minute video speed dates. After the 5-minute date, users decide whether they are compatible or not. "Seek.ly does not have profile pictures, questionnaires or compatibility testing because we know that at the end of the day those processes just can't take the place of human interaction", said Susie Steiner, Founder of Seek.ly.
The full article was originally published at MarketWatch, but is no longer available.
World Singles Networks To Power GhanaWeb.com
PR WEB – Oct 1 – World Singles Networks is launching a dating site in partnership with GhanaWeb.com, the most trafficked Ghanaian portal. GhanaWeb’s existing dating section is now replaced and updated with World Singles Networks’ app. This deal marks the beginning of a focus for World Singles Networks to expand in Africa.