Category: Outlets – Telegraph

More Married Women Are Having Affairs

Posted on November 22, 2010

Lovinglinks logo TELEGRAPH.CO.UK – Nov 22 – The recent Way We Are Now nationwide survey conducted by Relate showed that 34% of women admitted to being unfaithful, compared with 32% of men. Paula Hall, a sex and relationships counsellor, says: "Traditionally we believe a woman who has an affair is looking for emotional intimacy, whereas men are looking for sex. But that's outdated. The automatic place to turn to is the internet. David Miller, who runs Loving Links, an online dating service and one-to-one introduction agency for 'nice, middle-class attached people', has noted a huge increase in younger female clients.

The full article was originally published at Telegraph.co.uk, but is no longer available.

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There Aren’t Enough Gays In UK

Posted on September 24, 2010

Gaydarspravne logo TELEGRAPH.CO.UK – Sep 23 – Only 1% (240K) of the British population is gay according to a
report from the ONS. The gay ‘dating’ website Gaydar has 1.5M profiles
in the UK. Given that almost all its users are men, that means – if the
ONS figures are to be believed – that at ~1.25M heterosexual men in the
UK are registered on a site whose principal purpose is to hook men up
with each other for casual sex. Gaydar is entirely private and a bit
naughty, whereas the ONS figures come from a survey where people were
asked out of the blue to tell the government their sexuality. Whose
figures do you think are likely to be more accurate? FULL ARTICLE @ TELEGRAPH.CO.UK

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People With Internet Access More Likely To Be In Relationships

Posted on August 17, 2010

Online dating mouses heart TELEGRAPH.CO.UK – Aug 17 – A research led by Michael J Rosenfeld, the associate
professor of sociology at Stanford University, has found that 82.2% of
people with access to the web at home had a spouse or partner, compared
to 62.8% of those without an internet connection. The increasing
popularity of online dating meant that the internet would soon overtake
introductions from friends as the most common way for people to meet
prospective partners. FULL ARTICLE @ TELEGRAPH.CO.UK

EasyDate Raising £10m Through AIM Flotation

Posted on June 29, 2010

Easydate logo male TELEGRAPH.CO.UK – June 29 – EasyDate, Edinburgh-based online dating business, goes public with a £10m placing on London’s junior market. Founder Bill Dobbie and business partner Max Polyakov are floating their niche-focused dating business on AIM to fund acquisitions and international growth as they attempt to win more of a global market worth an estimated £1bn. Tomorrow’s listing will give the company, which has a turnover of £11.5M, a market cap of approximately £45M as it issues 75 million shares at 60p. EasyDate is currently adding 200,000 members a month, and projects revenues will hit £19M next year. FULL ARTICLE @ TELEGRAPH.CO.UK

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Chinese Website Runs Competition To Find Brides For Millionaires

Posted on June 24, 2010

Jiayuan logo new TELEGRAPH.CO.UK – June 23 - The competition, run by jiayuan.com,
has attracted huge attention in China where online dating is becoming
one of the internet's fastest-growing and most competitive industries,
expected to be worth £120m this year. Hopefuls from as far afield as
Vancouver, Singapore, New York and Paris flew in to China last weekend
to join local girls in the first round of auditions which saw an
initial selection of 2,600 successful applicants being assessed on the
basis of their weight, figures, education and age. The latest
competition from Jiayuan.com is also an exercise in shock-marketing
intended to boost online registrations in the fiercely competitive
online dating business, boosted in part by the shortage of girls in
China caused by the one-child policy and the cultural preference for
sons. Although profits are still relatively small, the industry is
predicting it will attract 140m registrations by the end of this year
according to a report by the iResearch internet consultancy. FULL ARTICLE @ TELEGRAPH.CO.UK

Mark Brooks: Baihe and Zhenai are the top two competitors to Jiayuan. Interviews with their Founder/CEOs can be found here for Baihe, and here for Zhenai.

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Britons Being Duped By West African Gangs On Dating Sites

Posted on June 1, 2010

Fraudster TELEGRAPH.CO.UK – June 1 - Fraudsters in Nigeria and Ghana are creating fictitious
profiles with photos of good looking men and women and then sending
thousands of scam emails to victims in Britain. The increasing problem
has forced the Serious Organised Crime Agency (Soca) to send officers
from its Anti-Kidnap and Extortion Unit to West Africa to help train
police there. Soca has said that millions of Britons are being targeted
by organised criminal gangs using the latest mass marketing techniques
to defraud them of ~ £3.5 billion a year. FULL ARTICLE @ TELEGRAPH.CO.UK

Student Fined By University Over Dating Website

Posted on May 31, 2010

Fitfinder screenshot TELEGRAPH.CO.UK – May 31 – Rich Martell, 21, was forced to pay GBP 300 and take the site down after University College London (UCL) deemed that the website, FitFinder, brought the institution into disrepute. The site, which allowed UCL students to flirt with each other online, reached 5M hits within four weeks of opening and was soon spread to other universities. Authorities at UCL deemed the website an undesirable distraction from academic work, and representatives of other universities also contacted UCL to complain about the site. FULL ARTICLE @ TELEGRAPH.CO.UK

EasyDate Seeks To Woo Investors

Posted on May 21, 2010

Easy date logo.jpgTHE DAILY TELEGRAPH – May 20 – EasyDate is looking to expand internationally, raise funds and launch a new site that will allow singles to browse all the available online dating toos. "It'll be a bit like a comparison site", said Bill Dobbie, chairman and founder of EasyDate. "Canoodle is one of our R&D experiments. Users would key in their requirements and all dating sites would be searched to help find that ideal companion. EasyDate was formed in 2005 when Dobbie teamed up with software writer Max Plyakov and has been growing steadily ever since. "Unlike our competition such as Match.com and DatingDirect, we operate a portfolio of sites and we are a niche operator", says Dobbie. "EasyDate can launch both new niche sites itself or, as a white-label site provider, with a partner." Alongside the niche and comparison site approach comes global growth. EasyDate's international expansion began last year. "We are now in all the English-speaking countries and beginning to look at Spanish-speaking and others such as Sweden, Netherlands and Thailand". He plans to launch in Brazil this year. EasyDate sees 155,000 a month income from its Australian site. FULL ARTICLE @ TELEGRAPH.CO.UK

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Sex.com: The Most Expensive Domain Name In History

Posted on March 10, 2010

Sexcom picture TELEGRAPH.CO.UK – Mar 10 - Sex.com is up for auction with bidding starting at $1M. The
website name was last bought in 2006 for a reported record $14M backed
by DOM Partners LLC. Sex.com's record title has been broken by
Insure.com, which sold for $16M last year. But the lender is now
foreclosing the Internet property after the owner Escom failed to pay
its loan. It was originally purchased by Gary Kremen, the entrepreneur
who founded Match.com in 1994. Two years later, through a scam, the
ownership was transferred to Stephen Cohen, resulting in a five-year
legal battle over ownership. A Californian judge awarded $65 million in
damages to Mr Kremen and returned him the rights to sex.com. He put the site on the market in 2006, and Escom reportedly paid $14M. FULL ARTICLE @ TELEGRAPH.CO.UK

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Dating Website Grows Through Love

Posted on January 25, 2010

Ross williams1 TELEGRAPH.CO.UK – Jan 23 – "Our product is love," says Ross Williams, whose Global Personals business accounts for one-third of the UK online dating market. In the late 1990s, he set up the web design and development company Rawnet. By 2003 he create a behind-the-scenes "white label" system and let partners brand and market dating sites. His company, Global Personals, also runs its own site, Singles365.com, and provides the back end for
dating sites branded by magazines Men's Health, FHM and
Cosmopolitan. The company has grown from 10 to 80 people, and is
expanding internationally, first to South Africa and Australia, and
next to the US. FULL ARTICLE @ TELEGRAPH.CO.UK

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