Filed in archive by Mark Brooks on January 31, 2006
THE NEWS FACTOR -- JAN 26 -- Web sites specifically built to put people in touch with one another -- are booming in terms of participation and new services. Whether you are looking for social...
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by Mark Brooks on January 31, 2006
ECOMMERCE TIMES-- Jan 26 -- The Internet and e-mail help to expand and strengthen the social ties that people maintain in the offline world, according to a new report released today by the Pew...
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Filed in archive by Mark Brooks on January 31, 2006
THE NEWSQUEST HERALD -- Jan 26 -- This month a survey - by a British subsidiary of Europe's largest dating service which has more than 1.5 million members - reported that 3.6 million Britons used...
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Filed in archive by Mark Brooks on January 31, 2006
NEW MEDIA KNOWLEDGE -- Jan 18 -- The partnership will enable singles to search for dates and chat with other singles using their i-mode phones. The site will offer mobile consumers access to...
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BUSINESS WIRE -- Jan 24 -- Sprint announced the availability of Jumbuck Island from Jumbuck Entertainment, The Lounges from AirG, and Webdate Mobilefrom Trilibis Mobile for sprint PCS Vision and...
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Filed in archive by Mark Brooks on January 26, 2006
YAHOO FINANCE -- Jan 23 -- Yahoo is on a quiet acquisitions tear. First, it snapped up photo-sharing site Flickr in March. In December, it acquired del.icio.us, a service that bookmarks and shares...
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Filed in archive by Mark Brooks on January 26, 2006
RED HERRING -- Jan 12 -- The money came from Sevin Rosen Funds and Rho Capital Partners. Verified Personhas now raised a total of $14.5 million since it was founded two and a half years ago. Tal Moise...
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Filed in archive by Mark Brooks on January 26, 2006
Associated Press -- Jan 21 -- Should the government be allowed to snoop on "aggregated query data (not search results)" from Google? "The Bush administration apparently never asked for...
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Filed in archive by Mark Brooks on January 26, 2006
NY POST -- Jan 19 -- Starbucks and Yahoo! Personalswill announce the start of a new relationship today. The coffee giant will give away $10 Starbucks gift cards to people who register for the...
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Filed in archive by Mark Brooks on January 26, 2006
MSNBC -- Jan 18 -- If MySpaceCEO Chris DeWolfe has his way, the quirky social networking site he co-founded two years ago will hold tight to its homegrown roots, even though it now boasts more unique...
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Filed in archive by Mark Brooks on January 26, 2006
INTERFAX -- Jan 19 -- Meetic paid USD 20 mln for a majority stake in eFriendsNet Entertainment, which operates China's largest online dating website Yeeyoo.com. "Meetic made this acquisition...
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Filed in archive by Mark Brooks on January 26, 2006
EUROPEAN JEWISH PRESS -- Jan 8 -- The someonejewish.composters in London ask the tongue-in-cheek question, 'Mother still nagging?' offers the solution, 'The...
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PR WEB -- Jan 12 -- 125 Cupid.com/PreDatingparties are scheduled to be held in more than 100 cities in the US and Canada on Wednesday evening, February 8th. ~4,800 eligible singles will participate...
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Filed in archive by Mark Brooks on January 13, 2006
PR WEB -- Jan 11 -- Date.comannounced today the addition of its newest relationship advisor, sexy scribe Anna David; responsible for providing advice to our more than two million members nationwide....
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PR WEB -- Jan 9 -- UK based company Liquid11offers "Stay Safe" which enables online dating users to obtain their own temporary telephone numbers which connect directly to their mobile...
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Filed in archive by Mark Brooks on January 04, 2006
7 NEWS BOSTON -- Dec 12 -- New claims say some of the tempting profiles you see may really be cyber fakes. David Lemay put his profile on the web and got a response from an Elle McPherson look......
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by Mark Brooks on January 04, 2006
PR WEB -- Jan 1 -- OneKeyAway.comand Sofitel San Francisco Bay hotel are teaming up to host a series of upscale, interactive singles mixers. Part psychology, part technology, OneKeyAway.com mixer...
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THE COURIER JOURNAL -- Dec -- Joan Hardin, a 60-ish widow confesses, "I'm not interested in the sex. I'd rather have more companionship." About a fifth of visitors to the online...
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GREAT FALLS TRIBUNE -- Dec 29 -- Since August, the Tribune has followed four Great Falls singles sharing their ups and downs in the dating game. Drew spent an afternoon and evening with a Bozeman man...
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Filed in archive by Mark Brooks on January 04, 2006
KNIGHT RIDDER NEWSPAPERS -- Dec 28 -- Davis, a media professor at UC Berkeley, has been given the keys to perhaps the biggest real-world lab in the world, Yahoo. As head of Yahoo's new social...
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Filed in archive by Mark Brooks on January 04, 2006
NY POST -- Dec 27 -- SHE is just a little bit cooler than most of the hot nerdy hipsters online at Consummating.com. She has 269 people who like her and 47 people who do not at Consumating.com,...
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