Month: May 2013

Dating Apps That Creep HowAboutWe Out

Posted on May 4, 2013

Flavorconnect logoGLAMOUR – May 5 –

On the Rebound - Alerts you the second a Facebook friend you’ve been crushing on becomes single.

Cloud Girlfriend – Lonely bachelors design a “perfect” fake girlfriend to leave adoring messages on their Facebook walls.

Flavor Connect - Matches lovers based on favorite candy flavors.

Valentine Camera+ - Take a photo of you and your Valentine and adorn it with oodles of red hearts, roses, and…sunflowers. Just so your date knows you’re (creepy) serious.

Passion - With your phone’s microphone and accelerometer rate your sexcapades on a scale from 1 to 10. Compare your performance with other users. You must have your phone on and ACTIVELY LISTENING TO YOU during sex.

Dickorate - Sext a photo of your member in a sombrero. Photograph your package, then dress it up with hats, mustaches, and other adornments.

by J. Adamiak
See full article at Glamour

How The Internet Is Boosting Marriage Rates

Posted on May 3, 2013

WASHINGTON POST – May 2 – University of Montreal economist Andriana
Bellou says Internet “has the potential to reduce search frictions.”
Bellou exploits the fact that broadband arrived in the United States
unevenly during the 1990s and 2000s and compares the rates of adoption
with Current Population Survey data on marriage rates for Americans aged
21-30. What she found was that “marriage rates grew on average more in
states with greater increases in broadband penetration.” The data is
awfully messy, but there does seem to be a correlation:

Ever married graph
In 2011, just 51% of American adults were married, down from 72% in 1960.

by Brad Plumer
See full article at Washington Post

MeetMe Secures $8m

Posted on May 3, 2013

Meetme logo news July 12MEETME – May 1 – MeetMe closed an $8m line of credit arranged by Westech Investment Advisors, a manager of tech venture debt funds based in Silicon Valley which has arranged loans to Facebook and Google. MeetMe is available in a dozen languages and just launched its mobile premium subscription product MeetMe+.

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Facebook Is Blowing It

Posted on May 3, 2013

Facebook your ad hereSALON – May 1 – "Mark Zuckerberg won't let me turn off the spammy online dating ads on my smartphone." That giant-breasted zombie stalker from Mate1.com has been chasing me across Facebook for years! I no longer want to check Facebook on my phone. My iPhone screen is just not big enough for those breasts.

by Andrew Leonard
The full article was originally published at Salon, but is no longer available.

Meetic Results For Q1 2013

Posted on May 2, 2013

Meetic logo newBUSINESS WIRE – May 2 – Meetic bumped up its paid userbase by an impressive 124,000 new paying members but revenues held steady (Year over Year) at 41m Euros for the quarter. Meanwhile, EBITDA was down 21% to 4m Euros. Marketing expenses were 59% of revenues. These numbers exclude revenues from Massive Media / Twoo.com which you may recall they acquired December 2012. (Twoo added 2.1m Euros in revenues for the quarter).  Meetic has ~47m Euros cash. IAC owns 81% of Meetic.

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

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Comprehensive Dating Industry Vendor Directory At iDateDirectory.com

Posted on May 2, 2013

Idate directory logoWEBWIRE – May 2 – Marc Lesnick, the host of iDate, has launched a directory for iDating
site owners and entrepreneurs to reference resources and vendors. See iDateDirectory.com.
 It includes: dating software, instant messaging (IM), hosting, payment
processing, fraud detection, customer care centers and profile
enhancement providers. Also dating sites, mobile dating apps,
matchmakers and dating coaches. Submissions are being taken. Go here for an invite to access the directory.

See full article at Webwire

Dating Factory To Integrate NATS

Posted on May 2, 2013

Datingfactory logo newXBIZ – May 1 – DatingFactory.com, an online dating white-label service
provider will integrate the NATS backend management system into its
award-winning  platform.  NATS, or Next-Generation Affiliate Tracking
Software, is a leading affiliate program backend solution produced by
Too Much Media. DatingFactory.com was established in 2009 as an
international white-label dating platform, has 30,000 partners, operates
in 22 languages and supports 58 niche markets.

by John Sanford
See full article at XBiz

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Bang With Friends Is Heading To Your Smartphone

Posted on May 2, 2013

Bangwithfriends logo smallerMASHABLE – May 1 – Bang With Friends is going mobile and raised $1 million this week. The site's co-founder, who goes by C, said "we're taking it mobile soon." BWF was started January by some shy founders, is nearing 1m users and about 200,000 matches. ~70% of users are between the age of 18 and 34.

by Adam Popescu
See full article at Mashable

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Snap Interactive Q1 Financial Results

Posted on May 2, 2013

Snapinteractive logoPR NEWSWIRE – May 1 – Total revenues decreased 40% YOY to $3.5M. Net loss was $0.3M, compared with a net loss of $3M in Q1 2012. "Our results reflect a significant decrease in advertising and marketing spend from the comparable period in 2012, which primarily affects new user acquisition. We began to decrease our user acquisition costs during the second quarter of 2012 as we focused on redesigning and re-launching our AYI product", said Jon D. Pedersen, Sr., SNAP's CFO.

The full article was originally published at IT News Online, but is no longer available.

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