COURTLAND BROOKS – May 7 – If you’ve not heard of the tawdry story of the founder of Match, then you’ll like this book. Actually, even if you know it, its worth a read. Stanford law grad, Gary Kremen founded Match.com and bought a number of top tier domains. This is the story of how he started Match and his fight to reel in a particular domain that was stolen from him. See the Amazon book.
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by Hayden Field
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TODAY ONLINE – May 2 – Facebook dating feature has been available since last year in Argentina, Canada, Colombia, Mexico and Thailand, and it was expanded this week to include 14 more countries in the South-east Asian and South American region. Besides Singapore, other countries are Laos, Malaysia, the Philippines and Vietnam. In South America, the feature will be made available to Brazil, Bolivia, Chile, Ecuador, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname and Uruguay. Once a user has signed up for a profile, he or she will see suggested matches on the Facebook Dating page, which will show other users who have opted to use the service. The suggested matches will show the profiles of people who are not from the user's list of "Friends" or "Friends of Friends". However, a user may choose to view the profiles of people from his or her "Friends of Friends" list. Once a user is interested in a match, he or she may send a text message to the other person. A user is allowed to send a message to another Facebook Dating user only once, but may continue the conversation if the other party responds.
by Navene Elangovan
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PRESS RELEASE – May 1 – The Meet Group has added Podcoin, a mobile app that rewards podcast listeners, to its portfolio of mobile apps. "Podcoin is a social podcasting app that pays its listeners," said Geoff Cook, CEO of The Meet Group. Within four months of initial launch, the app surpassed 1M daily listening minutes. Podcoin gamifies podcast listening by paying the listener one Podcoin for every ten minutes spent listening. Leaderboards show the top listeners, and listeners can follow each others' profiles. Podcoin currency can be redeemed for rewards, including gift cards, headphones, and more.
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by Josh Constine
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PR NEWSWIRE – Apr 29 – Revenue for the second half of 2018 was €51.5M, up 18.4% from €43.5M in H2 of 2017. Revenue for 2018 was €104.6M, up 22.2% from €85.6M in 2017. The increase was primarily attributable to the Affinitas / Spark Merger, which closed in Nov 2017. Net Loss was €2M in the second half of 2018, compared to €3.9M in the second half of 2017, a reduction of €1.9M. Net Loss for 2018 was €3.1M, compared to €5.6M in 2017. Average Paying Subscribers grew 21.3% to 478K.
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OPENPR – Apr 30 – Prospr's AI based system decides who is able to join the dating app and keeps it save via security mechanisms utilizing AI powered Face ID Recognition. By implementing AI, Dating App Prospr was able to lay off 90% of its staff in California and the Philippines. Prospr plans to extend its AI system into real time reporting of users violating the netiquette.
OPW – May 1 – Using Fermi's equation, and Sagan's estimations, there's about 52,000 planets that could have life on them in the universe. The galaxy is a big lonely place, but statistically, singles should be able to find someone, using a similar equation on earth. See vid…