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LOS ANGELES, July 27 /PRNewswire/ — MySpace.com, a leading web portal built to mobilize people around shared interests, today announced its monthly traffic numbers. According to Nielsen//NetRatings June home and work traffic report, MySpace had almost twice the number of unique visitors of its closest competitor, Friendster.

WELLESLEY, Mass.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–July 22, 2004 — Roger Lee joined Battery’s San Mateo office in 2001 and focuses on software investments. Roger is currently a board member at Friendster and was a board observer at Neoteris prior to its acquisition by NetScreen…Most recently, he was a co-founder of Corio…Also the co-founder and President of NetMarket…Roger graduated with distinction from Yale University with a BA in Political Science…Battery Ventures is focused on investing in technology companies at all stages of growth….Team of over 25 experienced investment professionals…Guides companies to category dominance….Manages over $1.6 billion in committed capital.

Adrants.com — New Jersey native Blaire Allison wants to get married by the end of 2004 and she’s using a website called Do You Know My Husband? and weblog to hunt for a husband. Allison, who is 27 and works in New York as an event planner and dating coach, launched her site on June 21 and has received hundreds of emails from men clamoring for her consideration as well as major press coverage from the likes of the New York Times and MSNBC…Allison keeps a weblog detailing her dating experience with potential husbands and allows visitors to vote for their husband of choice. MARRYBLAIRE.com

WINNIPEG, July 16 /CNW/ –  A new poll of 160 divorced Canadians shows that a majority believe divorce is the most financially expensive event that can happen in a person’s life and yet many of the poll respondents were ill-prepared to handle this aspect of the break-up…61% of women agreed it was fair that assets should be split equally compared to 41% of men…22% say that money issues contributed to their divorce. Another 24% said it was "somewhat" a contributing factor…61% agree divorce is the most financially expensive event that can happen in a person’s life…57% said that newlyweds should have a pre-nuptial…79% agree that it is better to have "loved and lost" than "never to have loved at all."

BELLEVUE, WA, PRNewswire — …Attractone.com, inventors of the format and the first dating site to incorporate group video chat, is offering other Internet Portals, ISP’s and corporate websites the opportunity to license its unique video chat technology…Attractone.com’s technology provides up to 16 images onscreen in realtime video and audio at once. A chat room, therefore, is more like a party than an online chatroom with screening capabilities that enable the member to visually block other members and to explore friend-lists of each member of a chatroom.

DENVER, July 6 /PRNewswire/ — A recent Forbes article listed Denver as the number one city for singles…Eight at Eight offers a social event that involves four single women, four single men and dinner at 8pm. Membership Director Mindy Shwayder brought the Eight at Eight franchise to Denver after learning about Denver’s favorable single demographics. According to a Denver-based research firm, 30% of males and 23% of females in Denver’s population of 554,636 have never been married…"We have taken away the personal side of dating through online services, chat rooms and speed dating…Eight at Eight brings back the human element to dating.

NEW YORK, /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — …Barry Diller, Chairman and CEO of IAC, said, “We have maintained from the outset that we would prevail over Vivendi’s empty and cynical attempt to overturn an agreement made in good faith…there is no better response to the skepticism and questioning IAC endured…than the Court’s concluding remarks:”The pleadings show a contract that is unambiguous on its face and the product of long negotiation between sophisticated parties supported by some of the world’s most well-regarded investment banks and law firms.” The disputed tax distributions were “merely what [IAC] contracted for.”

BELLEVUE, Wash., /PRNewswire/ — …"AttractONE.com offers a more natural way to get to know potential suitors- through group chats. By watching people interact, hearing them speak and watching their expressions onscreen, getting to know their friends, you can get a better idea of who they are." explains CEO Richard Braun.  …AttractONE.com launches June 29, 7 PM (Eastern). …online launch event for the press.

BOCA RATON, Fla., PRNewswire — Multiply.com, a new web-based communication tool powered by social networks, today announced it will offer its users one gigabyte (GB) worth of free storage space for digital photo albums, blogs and simple text communication. …"Unlike first-generation social networking sites that are focused on expanding one’s contacts for the purpose of dating or finding a job, Multiply is about fostering communication with one’s existing social network," says co-founder Michael Gersh. …Users can filter their messages to only view messages from close friends and family.

JERUSALEM – Widowed for nine years, 64-year-old Sophie decided it was time for a male companion. So she donned a black, low-cut dress to tape a segment for "Clicka," Israel’s new, 24-hour cable TV dating channel — the latest high-tech version of the traditional Jewish matchmaker. …Segments are taped for later broadcast, with contact information flashing on the screen. ($10 a month) …Britain has a similar service, called The Dating Channel on Sky Digital.