YAHOO FINANCE -- Nov 12th -- TRUE today announced that actors Brad Pitt and Cameron Diaz are this year's top choices for a Thanksgiving Day date...More than 79% of singles feel that a few months of dating a person is all that is needed before bringing them home to meet the family. 12% of respondents even said that knowing someone for only a day is sufficient time, so long as they have someone with whom to share the holiday.
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Brad Pitt and Cameron Diaz Win 'Top Turkey' as Most Preferred Thanksgiving Dates
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Directmatches.com; Where Relationships Build Income
PRWEB -- Nov 12th -- DirectMatches is the first company in the online matchmaking market to deploy a multi-matchmaking system that helps people locate business contacts, job opportunities and finding dates online. It is the first dedicated match service with a contact management system. The company is also the first company to deploy a direct selling marketing program. PRWEB
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Video Phones Act as Dating Tools
BBC NEWS -- Hundreds have submitted a mobile video profile to win a place at the world's first video mobile dating event. The top 100 meet their match on 30 November at London's Institute of Contemporary Arts. The event, organised by the 3G network, 3, could catch on as the trend for unusual dating events, like speed dating, continues. BBC NEWS
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Romeo Bannned From British Internet Dating Site
IOL -- Nov 12th -- A middle-aged Romeo has been banned from an Internet dating agency for sleeping with more than 100 women. Former miner Clive Worth, 55, had 119 dates in five years and ended up in bed with most of them, reports the Daily Mirror. The website has taken him off their books for showing a "lack of commitment". He now plans to sign up with another Internet agency and vowed to carry on until he's 80.
The full article was originally published at Independent Online World News, but is no longer available.
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Smile, Dial, Date
NBC5 -- Nov 10th -- Now, a new use has emerged for mobile phones. Dating services have enlisted the communications medium to bring together bands of lonely hearts. "If you're in the bank in line, stuck in traffic, whatever it is, you can search for dates and flirt with people on your mobile phone," Kristin Kelly, of Match.com, said.
The full article was originally published at Dallas NBC5, but is no longer available.
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Compatti.com Releases Social Network and Personality Tests Endorsed by Nobel Laureate
Seattle, WA (PRWEB) November 7, 2004 -- Compatti.com's new feature allows users to create social circles, like in real life, for friends, family, business or romance and find new contacts by personality and relationships evaluation tests. Nobel Laureate, Dr. Kary B. Mullis concludes: “A horoscope that accurately reflects your personality can be cast by a computer if you give it the correct birth data.” Compatti.com uses biorhythmic and astrological compatibility analysis for personality assessment based on date, time and place of birth. PRWEB
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EZ2Date.com Launch
BUSINESS WIRE -- Nov. 2, 2004 -- EZ2Companies announced today that it has launched its EZ2Date site nationally. Allows its members to access over 1,000,000 active member profiles. EZ2Date combines online relationships with local events and partnerships and phone contact service with secure connections through anonymous computer software. BUSINESS WIRE
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New NYC Social Networking Club, Dinner Elite
YAHOO -- "There are plenty of internet dating companies, and clubs for those under 40, but no social networking organizationm before DinnerElite, for Manhattan's intelligent, well educated, and successful slightly older single set," said Maxine Martell, founder of Dinner Elite, who herself is a Wharton MBA/JD in her 40s. No membership fee is required to attend the first monthly dinner on Monday Dec. 6th.
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Video Phones Act as Dating Tools
BBC NEWS -- Hundreds have submitted a mobile video profile to win a place at the world's first video mobile dating event. The top 100 meet their match on 30 November at London's Institute of Contemporary Arts. The event, organised by the 3G network, 3, could catch on as the trend for unusual dating events, like speed dating, continues. BBC NEWS
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Smile, Dial, Date
NBC5 -- Nov 10th -- Now, a new use has emerged for mobile phones. Dating services have enlisted the communications medium to bring together bands of lonely hearts. "If you're in the bank in line, stuck in traffic, whatever it is, you can search for dates and flirt with people on your mobile phone," Kristin Kelly, of Match.com, said. DALLAS NBC5
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Over 50's are Ab Fab As Singles
UK DAILY RECORD -- Nov 9 -- While many younger women are desperate to find the man of their dreams to settle down with, the rising divorce rate means a growing army of older women are free, single and young at heart. According to the Lloyds TSB 50 survey of 9100 people - 18% of single women 50+ regularly went to bars and nightclubs looking for romance. This compares with 41% of 30-somethings. And 39% of single women in their 30s say they're not looking for a relationship, compared with 49% in their 50s. While 22% of single women in their 30s have tried internet dating, only 12% of the over 50s have done so. UK DAILY RECORD
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Spring Street Slashes Staff Amid Red Ink
NY BUSINESS, Nov 8th -- Spring Street Networks has reduced its staff by almost half to 12 employees to stem losses. The board has also removed chief executive Louis Kanganis. Spring Street runs personals for The Village Voice. Mr. Griscom wouldn't comment on speculation that the company is up for sale.
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MatchNet Reports Third Quarter 2004 Results
YAHOO FINANCE -- Revenue Up 74% From Prior Year. New Hires Include CFO, CTO, General Counsel and Product Director. Revenue in Q3 2004 was $17.1 million, an increase of 8% compared to $15.8 million for Q2 2004. Net loss of $3 million. Membership increased 3% to 10.1 million from 9.8 million Q2 2004 end. Compared to the same period last year active members increased 19%. Average revenue per subscriber was $75 and average subscriber acquisition cost was $41.
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IAC 3rd-Quarter Profit Rises More Than Fourfold on Travel Sales
BLOOMBERG -- Net income rose to $89.5 million from $18.7 million a year earlier. Revenue declined 6.5% to $1.51 billion from $1.61 billion. ...IAC named Jim Safka, a former AT&T Wireless Services executive, as CEO of Match.com in September replacing Tim Sullivan.
The full article was originally published at Bloomberg, but is no longer available.
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From Russia with love? No, it's a Web scam
HERALD TRIBUNE -- ...Medvedeva is one of scores, perhaps hundreds, of fictional characters in a resurgent Internet hustle that has become a Russian boom industry this year. Using fake names, forged visas and snapshots of young Russian women, a new crop of online swindlers is luring Western victims into confidence games. Each is an escalating flirtation between an unsuspecting man and a Russian grifter masquerading as a young woman. It typically ends when the victim wires money to Russia to pay for visas and airfare for a consummation of the affair. Then the beloved disappears.
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