All Acquisitions – Page 27 – Online Personals Watch

IAC’s Match.com Acquires OkCupid For $50M In Cash

Posted on February 2, 2011

TECH CRUNCH – Feb 2 – IAC’s Match.com is continuing its acquisition strategy today with the purchase of OkCupid for $50M in cash. The deal also includes future earnouts contingent upon performance. While Match.com has a significant userbase, OkCupid singles tend to be younger, which is why Match found it to be a useful acquisition. OkCupid, which has raised $6M, was co founded by Max Krohn, Sam Yagan, Chris Coyne and Christian Rudder. Match has previously acquired dating site People Media for $80M and most recently Singlesnet. Yagan will continue to operate OkCupid. FULL ARTICLE @ TECH CRUNCH

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Parship Acquires 12like

Posted on January 13, 2011

OPW – Jan 12 – On 1st January 2011, PARSHIP took over the entire operations of 12like GmbH, Germany. 12like.com is a specialist in social matchmaking via members’ extended social networks – for instance on Facebook.

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Lavalife Sold To First Media Group

Posted on December 3, 2010

OPW – Dec 3 – [Breaking news, you heard it first on OPW]. Lavalife was sold on November 30th to First Media Group. The group also operates Quest Chat lines and QuestPersonals.com, a competitor to Lavalife's telemedia and online business. Ron Duke, the CEO & CFO has left, and Peter Housley, the President and COO of First Media Group has resumed his role as CEO of Lavalife. He was CEO in 2003 and was the original brand architect. No numbers have been released.

eLove Acquires Los Angeles Matchmaker

Posted on October 1, 2010

PRESS RELEASE – Sep 30 - eLove, the matchmaking company, has acquired Cupid’s Coach. The addition of Cupid Coach’s two locations in LA and Westlake Village brings eLove’s total number of matchmaking offices to 50 nationwide. As the principal of Cupid’s Coach, Julie Ferman has been in the matchmaking business for more than 20 years. The partnership with eLove makes sense for us on many levels,” said Ferman. “We are now the first dating company to offer our clients both traditional matchmaking through eLove’s existing model and mutual selection matchmaking, using detailed personal resumes and professional photos. FULL ARTICLE @ ARTICLE BASE

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EasyDate Has Tied The Knot With Cupid

Posted on September 22, 2010

GUARDIAN.CO.UK – Sep 22 – EasyDate acquires North American rival cupid.com in a deal worth £4.4m. EasyDate already operates cupid.com outside the US and will now take charge of its US and Canada operations – reversing a trend that has seen US sites such as eHarmony eye up the UK for acquisitions. FULL ARTICLE @ GUARDIAN.CO.UK

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Easydate Takes Over Two Dating Sites

Posted on September 2, 2010

IB TIMES UK – Sep 1 – Easydate has acquired PlanetSappho.com for £200,000 and Spanish-based dating site Granamor.com for £25,000 to boost its international growth and expand its niche portfolio. Easydate said it had entered into an agreement with dating website Flirt.com to license the domain for an initial period of six months. Easydate will run the dating service across English speaking markets with an option to acquire the domain based on the performance over this period. Easydate has also entered into partnerships with Associated Newspaper's 'Metro' newspaper and Cosmopolitan and Men's Health magazines to promote two individual dating events in London scheduled over the next month.

The full article was originally published at IB Times UK, but is no longer available.

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CatholicMatch.com Acquires TraditionalSingleCatholics.com

Posted on July 1, 2010

PR NEWSWIRE – July 1 - CatholicMatch.com, the provider of online dating
for Catholics, has acquired the assets of TraditionalSingleCatholics.com. The integration of the niche site is effective today. TraditionalSingleCatholics.com
was launched four and a half years ago. CatholicMatch acquired
CatholicDaters.com in 2007 and SingleCatholics.com in 2008. FULL ARTICLE @ PR NEWSWIRE

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Dating.com Sells For $1.75M

Posted on May 14, 2010

TECH CRUNCH – May 13 – Someone has purchased the domain Dating.com
for $1,750,000 at the DOMAINFest auction. Today’s auction racked up
$2.4M in sales. Dating.com was sold by domain firm Oversee.net, via its
SnapNames unit. FULL ARTICLE @ TECH CRUNCH

EasyDate To Acquire Allegran

Posted on April 5, 2010

PRESS RELEASE – Apr 5 - EasyDate has acquired Allegran's online dating business, one of the UK's largest online dating groups, from Associated Northcliffe Digital. The acquisition increases EasyDate's current portfolio of dating sites from seven to twelve. EasyDate has purchased GirlsdateForFree.com, Loopylove.com, Quickflirt.com as well as the successful niche dating sites DatingForParents.com and MatureDating.co.uk.