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by Mark Brooks on November 24, 2005
THE
DAILY VIDETTE -- Nov 16 -- According to Gary Creasey, a psychology
professor, the rules of dating have changed over time. "Students
are now dating earlier than our parents did. They are more...
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by Mark Brooks on November 24, 2005
DAILY NEWS -- Nov 13 -- Marc Lesnickorganizes three or four internet dating business conferences a year in
places such as Beijing, Amsterdam and Miami. "In Europe, the
business generates between...
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Dating Sites
by Mark Brooks on November 22, 2005
REUTERS -- Nov 18 -- Match.comis accused in a federal lawsuit of goading members into renewing their
subscriptions through bogus romantic e-mails sent out by company
employees. In some instances, th...
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Dating Sites
by Mark Brooks on November 22, 2005
Bloomberg -- Nov 18 -- The Web-based Sperling's BestPlaces guidethis month ranked Seattle the #1 place in the U.S. to hook up, based on
33 factors, including male-to-female parity, membership in o...
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Dating Sites
by Mark Brooks on November 22, 2005
badger HERALD -- Nov 18 -- Well, after clicking 75 little (eHarmony)
bubbles ranking characteristics - warm, arrogant, impulsive,
attractive, perfectionist and uncomplicated - from one to seven and
on...
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Business
by Mark Brooks on November 22, 2005
MICHIGAN
TECH ONLINE LODE -- Nov 16 -- "Quick and easy" seems to be the catch
phrase of the century. The information superhighway and dating has made
a trend that seems to be changing the fa...
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Dating Sites
by Mark Brooks on November 22, 2005
CNET -- Nov 14 -- Friendsterhas hired a banker (Montgomery & Co., a boutique investment banking
firm in Santa Monica) to find a buyer, CNET News.com has learned.
Company executives have been talk...
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Dating Sites
by Mark Brooks on November 22, 2005
PR NEWSWIRE -- Nov 3 -- TRUEfiled a lawsuit against convicted sex offender Dr. Robert Wells of
Walnut Creek, California who was convicted in 2001 of attempted lewd
and lascivious acts with a child und...
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Dating Sites
by Mark Brooks on November 22, 2005
MARKETING VOX -- Nov 11 -- The nation's two largest gay-oriented media companies will combine when PlanetOut acquires LPI Media for $24 million in cash. LPI publishes the Advocate and Outmagazine...
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by Mark Brooks on November 22, 2005
THE
STREET -- Nov 14 -- Troublemakers on the online dating scene may have
met their match in a group of increasingly brand-conscious Internet
giants. Yahoo! Personals and Match.com,
two of the largest...
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by Mark Brooks on November 22, 2005
I-NEWSWIRE -- Nov 13 -- The Right One and Together Datingare bricks and mortar matching services that have joined forces.
For more than 30 years, The Right One and Together have catered to over
125...
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by Mark Brooks on November 22, 2005
WALL
STREET NEWS CAST -- Nov 13 -- The alternative sites narrow their focus
to create like-minded "communities" devoted to an individual sexual
practice or a certain demographics and fetish...
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Dating Sites
by Mark Brooks on November 15, 2005
INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY -- Nov 10 -- Googlehas revealed it will move into the billion-dollar market for online
classified ads. That revelation comes at a time when its chief rival, Yahoois losin...
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Dating Sites
by Mark Brooks on November 15, 2005
WALL
STREET NEWS CAST -- Nov 7 -- The "naughty niches" has become a major
matchmaking market. And like its straight-arrow sibling, it is a very
profitable one. The reason for the success is...
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by Mark Brooks on November 15, 2005
BIZ REPORT -- Nov 7 -- Yahoo and Googleare set to roll out new wireless services to take advantage of advanced
networks and cellphones to provide features similar to those available
on computers. Yah...
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Dating Sites
by Mark Brooks on November 15, 2005
BUSINESS WEEK -- Nov -- In its hunt for new members, Friendsterhas dusted off my recommendations and reissued them to my friends. Who
says I'd want to recommend Friendster now? And who says those...
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Dating Sites
by Mark Brooks on November 15, 2005
HERALD
NEWS -- Nov 3 -- If you are a South Asian seeking other South asians
the playing field gets that much smaller. Our first-generation
immigrant parents - from India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka - never...
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Dating Sites
by Mark Brooks on November 15, 2005
ASSOCIATED PRESS -- Nov 3 -- The social networking Web site MySpace.comhas launched its own record label in a joint venture with Interscope
Records hoping to capitalize on its broad reach among music...
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by Mark Brooks on November 15, 2005
STORY 1 -- YAHOO NEWS -- Nov 3 -- Too busy to meet new people and tired of the bar scene, Traynor, 39, turned to LunchDates.comto meet someone. A personal chef by profession, Traynor, 5 ft 5 tall,
ch...
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by Mark Brooks on November 15, 2005
ASSOCIATED PRESS -- Nov 6 -- Suicidegirls.com,
an online social network of amateur pinup girls (with an online dating
element) said it logged 500,000 downloads of the sexy "featurettes" -
th...
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Dating Sites
by Mark Brooks on November 15, 2005
BUSINESS WIRE --Nov 3 -- According to the Keynote Customer Experience Rankings, LoveHappens (Tickle) and AmericanSingles.comare the top sites for online customer experience based on research on
1,150...