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06/02/2023 12:00 AM
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Maple Match Taps Anti-Trump Lovers
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Recently I tweeted about Maple Match. The service is waitlisting members with a promise to make it easy for Americans to find the ideal Canadian partner to save them from the unfathomable horror of a Trump presidency. I have never had a tweet retweeted so much, my phone has been blowing up so much that my […]
Maple Match Taps Anti-Trump Lovers was written By David Evans %BLOGDESCLINK%%
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06/02/2023 12:00 AM
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Tinder Invented Sex, Goes Insane
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Longtime dating expert Julie Spira wrote a piece on HuffPo about a Vanity Fair article, Tinder and the Dawn of “Dating Apocalypse.”. Update: Tinder just lost its mind on Twitter over a Vanity Fair story. Grab the popcorn, this is going to be good. I couldn’t even bring myself to finish the VF article. Story after […]
Tinder Invented Sex, Goes Insane was written By David Evans %BLOGDESCLINK%%
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06/02/2023 12:00 AM
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Why Bots Like Dating Sites
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Dating services employ any number of anti-fraud solutions. Over the years I’ve seen registered devices (doesn’t work), geo-IP lookups and all sorts of home-brewed solutions. Are You Human is a technology used to fight bots, which supposedly account for 2/3’s of most dating site traffic. Back in the day, Markus at POF told me that something […]
Why Bots Like Dating Sites was written By David Evans %BLOGDESCLINK%%
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06/02/2023 12:00 AM
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Is The End Of Ashley Madison Near?
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Cheater dating site Ashley Madison has been hacked by someone who worked there in the past in a technical capacity. The person was upset that AM was charging people to remove their profiles completely. Instead of doing what everyone else supposedly does, AM charged $17 for what amounts to running an SQL database query to […]
Is The End Of Ashley Madison Near? was written By David Evans %BLOGDESCLINK%%
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06/02/2023 12:00 AM
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Plentyoffish 2006 Canadian National TV Interview
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Fun look at POF from the early days. In 2006 POF served up 600M pageviews each month, earning $10,000 a day. LOL@ 1:58. The video owner has a video showing the new Match Mobile circa 2007.
Plentyoffish 2006 Canadian National TV Interview was written By David Evans %BLOGDESCLINK%%
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06/02/2023 12:00 AM
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The Match Group to Acquire POF (PlentyOfFish)
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The Match Group, the global operator of digital dating products such as Match, Tinder, OkCupid and Meetic, and a subsidiary of IAC, announced today that it has entered into a definitive agreement to purchase PlentyOfFish for US$575 million in cash. I wrote Be Plenty Scared of Plenty Of Fish in 2oo5 and again in an Inc. […]
The Match Group to Acquire POF (PlentyOfFish) was written By David Evans %BLOGDESCLINK%%
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06/02/2023 12:00 AM
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AARP Wants Dating Sites To Crack Down On Fraud
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How interesting that the AARP ignored the dating industry for over a decade and now calls for the industry to crack down on fraud, probably because lots of their members are getting scammed on their own dating site, powered by HowAboutWe, which is owned by Match. More info on the deal. I wonder if AARP talked […]
AARP Wants Dating Sites To Crack Down On Fraud was written By David Evans %BLOGDESCLINK%%
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06/02/2023 12:00 AM
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Cuban Disses CMB, Funds Competitor Courtem
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The Coffee Meets Bagel crash & burn on Shark Tank has led to an interesting development. Mark Cuban, who’s $30M offer the CMB sisters turned down, has invested in Courtem, a dating app from the Anheuser-Busch family. Cuban serves as an advisor and holds an equity stake in the company. Singles join Courtem to see, “what someone might offer them as […]
Cuban Disses CMB, Funds Competitor Courtem was written By David Evans %BLOGDESCLINK%%
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06/02/2023 12:00 AM
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Scamalytics Release Industry Report on Scammers and Dating Fraud | Scamalytics
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Global Dating Insights and Scamalytics have collaborated on a scammers and dating fraud report. The report covers scammers and dating fraud and what the industry and third-parties can do to combat the threat they pose. They look at the current frauds infecting mobile apps like Tinder, trends like sextortion, and how these scammers are adapting their methods to the new […]
Scamalytics Release Industry Report on Scammers and Dating Fraud | Scamalytics was written By David Evans %BLOGDESCLINK%%
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06/02/2023 12:00 AM
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Coffee Meets Bagel Lands $7.8M Funding
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Today’s dating industry jaw-dropper is that Coffee Meets Bagel has managed to convince investors to give them almost $8M to continue to build and grow the straggling service. Investors just gave a niche service a huge pot of gold. Full details at TechCrunch. Only a few weeks ago, CMB failed spectacularly on Shark Tank, flubbing […]
Coffee Meets Bagel Lands $7.8M Funding was written By David Evans %BLOGDESCLINK%%
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