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PICKUPMETRICS - Jan 25 - PickUmMetrics.com interviewed 100 single women and discovered that 73% women want to be contacted by SMS and within 48 hours otherwise they lose interest. 60% of women don't show up at the first date because of needy SMS.
by Rich James
See full article at PickupMetrics
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BUSINESS WIRE - Jan 24 - Match.com France Limited has confirmed its intention to implement a mandatory squeeze-out and pursuant delisting of Meetic shares from the Euronext exchange. The procedure follows suit with the simplified takeover bid initiated by Match.com France and will be completed on January 31, 2014. It will involve 179k Meetic shares at EUR 18.75 per share.
The full article was originally published at WSJ, but is no longer available.
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BUZZFEED - Jan 23 - Match.com parent company IAC has launched Delightful as a service to plan dates for couples. The service is currently only available in San Francisco at a cost of $12 per month. HowAboutWe launched its date planning service HowAboutWe for Couples a year ago and has just added Los Angeles as its fifth city. The service costs $18 per month and in the New York market about 12% of its users previously used the dating part of the website. Date planning services are a way to hang onto customers as well as attract new ones.
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JWEEKLY - Jan 24 - Launched in 2003, Jewish dating website SawYouAtSinai.com combines old-school shidduch (matchmaking) strategies with modern Internet dating. The service relies on a team of volunteer matchmakers to scour the user databases and suggest matches. Volunteers must be married and willing to devote six hours per week. The site has more than 30,000 users, with nearly 1,000 matches resulting in marriage in the past decade.
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DAILYMAIL.CO.UK - Jan 23 - A research study released by eHarmony suggests that 50% of couples will meet online within 20 years. They predict that number will rise to 70% by 2040. The 55 to 64-year-old age group is expected to see a 30 per cent rise from 2013 to 2030 , increasing from 1.87 million to 2.41 million. Internet access among those 18 to 64 has doubled in the past decade to 88%. eHarmony is predicting the future of dating will contribute more than £256 million of consumer spending by 2030 - an increase of 81% compared to today.
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LE MONDE - Jan 24 – Gleeden, an infidelity site created by and for women, has reached 800,000 users in France, with 1.8 million members across all regions. In comparison, Ashley Madison boasts 22 million global members, though their French membership is only 400,000. A survey commissioned by Gleeden in 2010 revealed that 37% of the 500 people interviewed “had cheated or may have cheated.”
by Gaelle Dupont
The full article was originally published at World Crunch, but is no longer available.
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IB TIMES - Jan 24 – Online infidelity site Victoria Milan questioned 4,000 of its users. According to the results, companies across the globe lose $17m a day due to employees spending an average of 1.17 hours of work time cheating. 68% of respondents use their computer or smartphone to communicate with their lovers during work hours.
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OPW - Jan 22 - We've monitored and illuminated the top internet dating news almost every day for the last 9 years, and we've also been keeping careful track of who's been writing that news. Here's a list of reporters we've referenced.
In our opinion, here are the top internet dating industry reporters on the planet.
1. Sharon Jayson is a behavior and relationships reporter for USA Today (1.5m+ readers).
See Sharon Jayson's stories
2. Jenna Wortham is a technology reporter for NY Times (1.8m+ readers) and it´s blog called Bits (450k+ UV/monthly).
See Jenna Wortham's stories
3. Quentin Fottrell covers finance for MarketWatch (9.4m+ UV/monthly) and wrote several articles about online dating during the last year. He also wrote "Love in a Damp Climate" about relationships in Ireland.
See Quentin Fottrell's stories
4. Alexia Elejalde-Ruiz writes for the Chicago Tribune (circulation 410k+).
See Alexia Elejalde-Ruiz's stories
5. Mohana Ravindranath is business reporter for the Washington Post (circulation 470k+).
See Mohana Ravindranath's stories
6. Bianca London is another newcomer. A young reporter, she joined Daily Mail (Mail online has 101m+ UV/monthly) in 2012 and writes the Femail online column.
See Bianca London's stories
7. Jordan Crook is a tech reporter who writes for Tech Crunch (13.7m+ UV/monthly), since 2011.
See Jordan Crook's stories
8. Anthony Ha covers the media industry and media startups for Tech Crunch.
See Anthony Ha's stories
9. Jennifer Van Grove is a social media reporter for CNet News (1.8m+ UV/monthly).
See Jennifer Van Grove's stories
10. Samantha Murphy Kelly is a tech reporter for Mashable since 2011 (33.4m+ UV/monthly).
See Samantha Murphy Kelly's stories
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NY DAILY NEWS - Jan 22 - Chris McKinlay created a number of fake profiles on OkCupid, along with some programs to mine data, to meet his wife. After answering 350 questions, he realized that he would only be matched with someone if they answered exactly the same questions as him. So he created 12 robot profiles that answered all of the questions randomly. With 6M answers from 20K prospective mates, he then used an algorithm to sort through the women he'd like to meet. He ended up with having a 90%-plus compatibility rating with 10K women. He designed software to view as many profiles as possible. Receiving ~20 messages a day, he went on 87 dates. The 88th turned out to be his wife.
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THE INQUIRER - Jan 22 - Between 2010 and 2013, ChristianMingle saw a 500% increase in registrations from 55+ singles, while JDate.com saw ~70% rise in mature adults registering during the same period. 1 in 4 people over 50 is divorced, compared with 1 in 10 in 1990.
by Terri Akman
The full article was originally published at Philly.com, but is no longer available.
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THE NEXT WEB - Jan 21 - HowAboutWe is celebrating a one-year launch anniversary of its Couples service. It is also launching Couples in Los Angeles. The destination joins other cities like New York, San Francisco, Seattle, and Chicago. HowAboutWe for Couples was unveiled as a way to keep relationships happy and loving. Users can enroll for $18 per month to receive original date ideas.
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MARKETWIRED - Jan 21 - jDate and ChristianMingle.com have released their second annual State Of Dating In America Report. The definition of cheating is not black and white, the study found. In 2014, the number of women who believe a flirtatious message is cheating dropped to 68%, while men observed a slight decrease to 51%. A quarter of singles would marry someone who was unfaithful to them while dating. The stigma of online dating is a thing of the past. 85% of singles say online dating is socially acceptable. 94% believe online dating expands their dating pool.
The full article was originally published at Spark Networks website, but is no longer available.
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CITYAM - Jan 21 - Having spent some time on Match.com, Stanford professor Paul Oyer has written a book: Everything I Ever Needed To Know About Economics I Learned From Online Dating.
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PCM - Jan 20 - Tinder is used in the Netherlands by ~1.18M people. In October, the user count was just 300K.
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