PR WEB — Feb 11 — GetSteady.com has launch its lesbian and gay dating community with the added reassurance of fully verified member photos. Members can earn points redeemable for gift cards from popular stores. Points are earned for photo verification, qualified referrals and subscription. FULL ARTICLE @ PR WEB
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Heavy Layoffs At PlanetOut
CNET NEWS — Jan 14 — A third of the staff were laid off this week at PlanetOut. On January 8, PlanetOut issued a press release announcing that it was merging with its competitors Here Networks and Regent Entertainment Media, the publishers of LGBT magazines The Advocate, Out, and HIVPlus.
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Sun Sets On PlanetOut
SF BUSINESS TIMES — Jan 9 — Gay and lesbian media company PlanetOut Inc will merge with Here Networks and Regent Entertainment Media, two related businesses that have bought parts of PlanetOut in the past few years. Here Media and Regent will pay $4.7m in cash into the new company as part of the deal. They'll own, through special preferred shares, 80% of the business after the merger.
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EHarmony’s GLBT Site Will Alienate Gays
OUT&ABOUT — Jan 1 – In accordance with their settlement agreement, eHarmony has created a separate site dedicated to matching same-sex couples called Compatible Partners. Although this site will use the same questionnaire to match same sex couples, the site comes with a hefty disclaimer warning that this new matchmaking site was not created with the use of extensive data on what makes a compatible same-sex couple. eHarmony's straight users and their newly acquired homosexual users will remain completely separate.
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New Dating Site Goes Exclusive
PRESS RELEASE — Dec 11 — LesbianCherryPie.com is a dating and matchmaking service for lesbians seeking other lesbians who are looking for long-term relationships. The price starts @ $11.95 a month. FULL ARTICLE @ LIVE-PR
Traffic At OneGoodLove.com Increased
PR WEB — Nov 20 — oneGoodLove's overall daily traffic increased 300%, registrations increased 150% and subscriptions increased 40% post the November 4th passing of Proposition 8 in California. oneGoodLove.com's surprising growth should help to correct the misinformed social perception that gays and lesbians are only focused on meaningless or casual relationships. oneGoodLove is an online dating site created solely for gays and lesbians seeking committed romances. FULL ARTICLE @ PR WEB
EHarmony Settles Dispute Over Gay Matches
WSJ — Nov 20 – A settlement between eHarmony and the New Jersey attorney general requires the online heterosexual dating service to also cater to homosexuals, raising questions about whether other services that target a niche clientele could be forced to expand their business models. eHarmony denied violating discrimination law and said its business had been based on years of researching opposite-sex marriages to understand what makes such couples compatible. EHarmony attracted nearly 2.6m unique visitors in October, a 28% jump from a year earlier, according to comScore. Consumers are expected to dole out nearly $1 billion in fees for online dating sites this year, according to Forrester Research, and the market is expected to expand by 10% in each of the next five years. FULL ARTICLE @ WSJ
Chemistry Responds To eHarmony Legal Settlement
PR NEWSWIRE — Nov 21 — Following a finding by the New Jersey Attorney General that it had violated an anti-discrimination law and agreeing to a settlement, eHarmony is now required to cater to same-sex couples. "It's a shame that Dr. Neil Clark Warren's sudden acceptance came at the forced hand of the legal system," said Thomas Enraght-Moony, CEO of Match.com and Chemistry.com. "Since its inception, Chemistry.com has lived by the mantra of "Come as You Are." "I'm absolutely positive that romantic love is exactly the same whether you happen to be straight or gay," said renowned biological anthropologist and chief advisor to Chemistry.com, Dr. Helen Fisher.
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eHarmony Uses Misleading Lesbian Personals Ads On Facebook
GAY WALLET — Nov 20 — The segregated gay personals site Compatible Partners won't launch until March 2009 but eHarmony already placed its ads on Facebook. I wonder if eHarmony's Facebook ads are part of a marketing research project where they're testing the waters and trying to decide how much money they can realistically make by offering gay personals on a "special" segregated section of their web site.
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Gay Dinner Dating Service
THE ARIZONA REPUBLIC — Nov 16 — Desert Introductions brings together career-oriented gay men for dinners and cocktail mixers. Members fill out a short online questionnaire and talk about their interests during a phone interview. Groups of six or eight are selected to have dinner at an upscale restaurant. Before each event, members receive biographies of the other dinner guests. Then they meet and mingle. Prices start at $99 for two dinners and go up to $795 for 15, meals not included. FULL ARTICLE @ AZ CENTRAL