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Study Shows Generation Dating Earlier, Marrying Older
Filed in archive Dating Sites 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...
Dating in Cyberspace
Filed in archive 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...
Online Daters Sue Match.com, Yahoo
Filed in archive 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...
Seattle, Online Dating Mecca
Filed in archive 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...
Internet Hookups Provide Little Mystery
Filed in archive 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...
Losing the Relationship Connection
Filed in archive 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...
Is Friendster up for Sale?
Filed in archive 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...
TRUE Sues Convicted Sex Offender
Filed in archive 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...
PlanetOut Acquires 'Advocate' and 'Out' Magazines
Filed in archive 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...
Web Dating Game Heats Up
Filed in archive 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...
The Right One and Together Dating Strong Team
Filed in archive 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...
Alt.com Personal Ads for Wide Range of Sexual Fetishes
Filed in archive 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...
Google Ponders Online Classifieds
Filed in archive 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...
Adult Personals Focus on Casual Encounters and Big Bucks
Filed in archive 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...
Yahoo, Google to Launch Wireless Services
Filed in archive 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...
Friendster Revitalisation
Filed in archive 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...
Speed dating ... with Some Reservations
Filed in archive 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...
MySpace Launches Record Label
Filed in archive 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...
Lunchdate At Center Of Dating Controversy
Filed in archive 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...
Suicide Girls Ready to Go on iPods
Filed in archive Dating Sites 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...
LoveHappens Darling of Dating Industry. Y! Personals Still Winning
Filed in archive 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...
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