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| 28.10.2024 | Casual Encounters vs. Traditional Dating: How Online Platforms Are Changing Relationship Norms | Share
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So, the internet came along and flipped the dating on its head. Meeting someone through friends or at a local hangout? That’s old news. Now, it’s all about connecting online, anytime, anywhere. With just a few ... |
| 22.05.2024 | Tired of dating apps? You're not alone; survey says 79% Gen Z feel the same | - |
| 10.05.2024 | Horizon Next Partners announced strategic partnership with ArtsAI | As the audio industry continues to evolve, brands require more sophisticated measurement platforms than currently available to determine accurate and actionable attribution insights across multiple channels and tactics. Driving client solut... |
| 04.04.2024 | Advice | Ask Amy: Single man wants relatable advice | Dear Amy:
I love your column and how you relate your own experience in your answers.
My question is one I have not seen particularly addressed.
I am a 58-year-old gay man and have identified as bi for most of my adulthood.
I have had signif... |
| 12.03.2024 | Orra: Revolutionizing the Future of online dating with AI-Driven Lasting Connections | Orra Dating App Logo
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| 05.08.2021 | Lane Moore’s ‘Tinder Live’ spotlights the perils and hilarity of swiping for love | Since the dawn of the internet, online dating has come a long way — beyond the woes of dial-up and seedy chat rooms. Lane Moore lets audience members weigh in on whether she should swipe left or right in the hilarious “Tinder Live.” The cri... |
| 03.12.2019 | Progressive VCs and private equity are using tech and analytics to revolutionize investing | David Teten Contributor
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| 02.10.2019 | I met my husband on Tinder — here's what everyone gets wrong about online dating | The author Meira Gebel, and her husband Julian on their wedding day. Meira Gebel/Business Insider
My husband and I met on the popular dating app Tinder.Many people have misconceptions about online dating, from it being only for the socially... |
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| 24.08.2018 | These Are the Lies People Tell Each Other Most Often on Dating Apps | Nearly one-fourth of young adults are looking for love through dating websites or apps. This relatively new form of courtship can give you access to a large pool of potential partners. It also presents a unique set of challenges.
For exampl... |
| 03.05.2018 | Facebook hired eHarmony’s chief scientist… but not for its new dating feature (Updated) | One of the bigger pieces of product news at Facebook’s F8 developer conference this week was the announcement that Facebook will soon turn on a new dating feature.
It has also quietly made a hire that points to its growing interest in devel... |
| 06.09.2017 | eHarmony skills coming to Amazon's Alexa | Looking for love? While there's any number of apps for that, only one is compatible with the same voice-activated speaker you use to order holiday presents with free two-day shipping.
Amazon is teaming up with online dating platform eHarmon... |
| 22.08.2016 | Tinder too overwhelming? Well, there’s always a matchmaker | In the age of Tinder, real-life matchmakers are still very much in business.
Before we meet Callie Harris and Jaime Bernstein, consider this: According to research by Pew, online dating and the positive, accepting attitude toward it has onl... |
| 26.07.2016 | eHarmony CEO Dr. Neil Warren steps down, VP Grant Langston steps in | We’re all familiar with Dr. Neil Clark Warren, the CEO and founder of eHarmony and the star of all the dating platform’s TV commercials. But Dr. Warren is finally resigning as CEO, though maintaining his position as Chairman of the Board.
I... |
| 02.06.2015 | I Went to an Awkward Singles Night at a Toronto Grocery Store | Nothing says "romance" like a sloppy PB&J sandwich. Photos by the author.
This article originally appeared on VICE Canada.
"How'd you two meet?" And so it starts: the rudimentary question that all couples are asked b... |
| 24.09.2014 |
Former eHarmony Chief Waldorf Surfaces At Invoice2go
| The former head of eHarmony, Greg Waldorf, has surfaced over at a small mobile invoicing and expense management startup called Invoice2go, after a big funding round for the company. Invoice2go--founded in Australia--said it raised $35M in a... |
| 29.07.2014 | OkCupid: Yes, we experimented on users and we're not sorry | Mark Hawver, Tech Times 29 July 2014, 02:07 pm
OkCupid, one of the most popular matchmaking websites, is admitting it too, like Facebook, has mislead its followers through social experiment fun and games.
Maybe the company believes its user... |
| 10.04.2014 | eHarmony for gigs: AngelList founder contributes to $2.1M investment in Crew | Gig-matching service Ooomf is changing its name to Crew and announcing a new funding round of $2.1 million with participation from AngelList founder Naval Ravikant.
And it’s bragging a little on its current revenue run rate.
“Over $3 millio... |
| 14.03.2014 | 17 Incredibly Specific Dating Sites That Prove There's Someone for Everyone | Equestrian Cupid
You could write a pop country song by just reading “Horse Lover Dating Ideas” to music.
“Nice pickup truck sitting on the tailgate”
“Going on a horseback ride thru the woods”
“Just going for a nice quiet ride.”
“I let this ... |
| 17.09.2013 | TC Cribs: eHarmony’s Santa Monica HQ, Where Love Is Definitely In The Air | Welcome to a brand new episode of Cribs, the TechCrunch TV series that takes you inside the walls of the tech industry’s hottest companies to see what it’s like for the smarty-pants staffers who work there every day.
It’s not often that a t... |
| 22.08.2013 | Coffee Meets Bagel Takes Its Online Dating Service National With Its New iOS App | Coffee Meets Bagel, an online dating site that provides a friend-of-a-friend match every day, is now making matches nationwide. Launched in New York City in 2012, the startup is also today releasing its iOS app, which includes the same feat... |
| 17.07.2013 |
eHarmony's Waldorf Backs Online Education Firm Grovo.com
| Greg Waldorf, who was the founding investor in Los Angeles-based eHarmony, and was previously its CEO, is the lead investment in an online education firm's Series A. According to Grovo.com, a New York-based provider of Internet-based traini... |
| 12.07.2013 | AddThis Launches Smart Layers, Giving Websites Social And Personalization Tools That Adapt To Mobile | AddThis has released a new platform called Smart Layers, which it says can improve traffic and engagement by just adding a single line of code.
President and CEO Ramsey McGrory told me that Smart Layers both improves on the publisher tools ... |
| 07.05.2013 | How The Internet May Have Increased Young Marriages 14% | As millions of 20-somethings defy the age-old tradition of young marriage for another decade of baby-less romance, one study suggests that the Internet is responsible for boosting holy matrimony 14% among 21-30-year-olds. In a deliciously d... |
| 19.10.2012 | The Battle to be the Best Dating Site | Editor’s Note: This article is a revised version of an article that appears in the May 2012 issue of The Social Media Monthly. If you like it, you might want to download The Social Media Monthly iPad app or iPhone app and subscribe, or orde... |
| 10.07.2012 | If You’re Trying to Meet Real Goals, New Tool Goalee Could Help | With so many new social services rising up, it’s hard to keep them all straight, let alone, take the time to try each of them out. However, one new social service takes a little different approach by aggregating data from existing social ne... |
| 11.06.2012 | LinkedIn hacked: How to protect yourself online | (MoneyWatch) COMMENTARY Last week, LinkedIn (LNKD) (along with unrelated sites like eHarmony and Last.fm) suffered a massive data breach when millions of user accounts and passwords were leaked and posted to hacker sites. Is there a way to ... |
| 24.04.2012 | With $1.5M From Adecco, Path.To Wants To Be The EHarmony For Jobs In Silicon Valley And Beyond | The job-hunting market today is getting a little more social: Path.to, a kind of About.me-meets-LinkedIn service that lets people create image-filled, sleek professional profiles for themselves online, is today relaunching itself as a netwo... |
| 20.03.2012 | Zoosk integrates gamification into its online dating community (interview) | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Founded five years ago, Zoosk started to make a name for itself in online dating through Facebook and other social networking sites. La... |
| 14.02.2012 | Cracking the Love Code: Why Most Online Dating Sites Fail | If you’re single, today sucks. There is no escaping all the ooey-gooey-makes-you-just-want-to-barf ads and promotions for Valentine’s Day. As our lives become increasingly busy, it seems that the easiest way to meet people is online, a fact... |
| 24.10.2011 | Dating service Jazzed launches photo-sharing app | The eHarmony subsidiary makes mobile dating a little more visual
Thanks to new social networking technology, looking for Mr. or Ms. Right just got a little easier. Online dating site Jazzed announced Monday a new component to their social n... |
| 23.08.2011 |
eHarmony Approaches Redemption Deadline, Says Report
| Los Angeles-based matchmaking site eHarmony is approaching a redemption deadline from its last venture funding round, according to a report today from Reuters. According to the report, eHarmony has a November 5th deadline, after which its v... |
| 11.08.2011 | eHarmony snags Zynga exec Jeremy Verba as new CEO | Verba leaves Zynga after nearly two years as GM of Treasure Isle to run eHarmony
Everyone knows that social gaming and online dating go together like grilled cheese and tomato soup, which is why it makes sense that Zynga executive Jeremy Ve... |
| 31.01.2011 | Former eHarmony Head Greg Waldorf Joins Accel As CEO-In-Residence | Accel Partners is announcing today the addition of former eHarmony head CEO Greg Waldorf as CEO-in-residence. Waldof spent eleven years at eHarmony and five as CEO before leaving the company a couple of weeks ago and landing at Accel as of ... |
| 08.10.2010 | Investors take back-door tactics to get Twitter, Facebook shares on the cheap | Are angel investors, fund managers and even some retail investors getting in on the back end of privately held multibillion dollar startups by snatching up shares from employees and stockholders now?
A story published today by Fortune says ... |
| 27.07.2010 | Dating application Wings hooks featured Facebook spot and $750K | Triangulate, maker of Facebook dating application Wings, announced today that the application has been selected to appear on the Facebook Application Dashboard (one of only ten). The company also officially announced that it has secured a s... |
| 27.07.2010 | Dating application Wings hooks featured Facebook spot and $750K | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
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| 12.07.2010 | Junebug online dating site hunts users to test their game-changing algorithms | Online dating sites ought to have nearer the success rate as a search engine, says John Myles White.
“When you compare the people that big dating sites suggest to you with the pages that Google gives you in response to a search, the differe... |
| 28.04.2010 | Match.com Reveals the Dark Side of the Online Dating Business | Alas, the online dating industry isn't all flowers and moonlit walks. For companies that sell dating services, it's a competitive world where each major company has to one-up the other in their claims -- how many users get messages, how man... |
| 17.02.2010 | Is Humanism the Future of Sales and Conversion? | There’s a reason why vanity URLs, personalized profile pages and recommendation systems are so popular. To a customer or site visitor, there’s nothing more interesting than themselves. As the CEO of web tracking and sales conversion site Ge... |
| 10.02.2010 | Weopia makes virtual dating more personal, less awkward | Online dating is firmly entrenched as a viable option for meeting potential partners, but it has plenty of drawbacks. Try as they might, profiles, match quotients, and algorithms can’t do nearly what even a few minutes of face-to-face conve... |
| 10.02.2010 | Weopia makes virtual dating more personal, less awkward | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Online dating is firmly entrenched as a viable option for meeting potential partners, but it has plenty of drawbacks. Try as they might... |
| 08.12.2009 | Meetcha: A New Dating Site for the 40-Plus Set, from Monster/Eons Founder Jeff Taylor | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
[Updated 12/8/09 2:30 p.m. with comments from Taylor, see below] Jeff Taylor, the founder of Monster Worldwide and the founder/CEO of the boomer-focused online community Eons,... |
| 20.10.2009 | Zoosk Hits 40 Million Members, Eyes $20 Million In Revenue This Year | For a long time, dating sites and social networks have been two very different beasts, rarely co-mingling as users maintained two entirely separate online identities. But that’s starting to change. Zoosk, a social dating site, has largely p... |
| 15.07.2009 | Jajah Lands Deals To Give Love A Voice On Match.com, eHarmony | VoIP startup Jajah has just scored major deals with eHarmony and Match.com, two of the web’s most popular dating sites, to provide online daters with semi-anonymous voice chat. The new features are part of Jajah’s ‘Platform for Dating’, whi... |
| 05.06.2009 | VirtualDatingAssistants.com Lets You Outsource Your Online Dating Life | Although TechCrunch editor Michael Arrington recently posted an April Fool’s joke about hiring a matchmaker to find him a wife, matchmaking services are becoming an alternate (and pricier) way to find a mate (think Millionaire Matchmaker). ... |
| 16.10.2008 | Group dating site Ignighter snaps up $1.2 million | Remember group dates in junior high and high school? Sure, there was awkward tension with that special someone, but you had your buds right there to diffuse the pressure. That’s the idea behind new group dating website Ignighter, only, you ... |
| 27.06.2008 | Find New Facebook Friends…With Science! | Signal Patterns, makers of scientific-based social web apps, have just released a Facebook app whose goal is to help you find new friends based on an in-depth personality assessment algorithm. This app matches people based on their unique p... |
| 29.01.2008 | Redux’s “people discovery” service wants you to make new friends | There’s still a gap between the Match.coms of the world and the Facebooks, says Redux CEO Darian Sharazi, and he thinks his company’s new site can fill it.
While social networking sites like Facebook connect you with existing friends, and d... |
| 13.11.2007 | WooMe, an innovative new take on online dating, launches to public | The much-anticipated dating and meeting site WooMe is launching to the public today, with some new features and plans. We first wrote about the company during its alpha launch, at the TechCrunch40 conference.
Dating is both one of the more ... |
| 19.09.2007 | Ourlikes, a more efficient matchmaking site | Dating sites like Match.com and eHarmony have been around for years, but competitors are still launching.
These startups generally claim the old dating site model is broken. What’s needed, they say, are more immediate connections to a varie... |
| 18.09.2007 | WooMe, searching for the needle in the dating haystack | If you had a minute to speak with someone over a live video connection, could you decide whether you would date them? That’s the question for WooMe, a startup aiming to bring the world of speed dating online.
It launches a testing version t... |
| 14.02.2007 | Love on the Web | Looking for love and not finding it?
If you’re searching online, females have a slight advantage: Visitors to dating sites overall are 50.8 percent male and 49.2 percent female, according to an analysis of 100 dating websites by Hitwise.
So... |
| 20.12.2006 | Yahoo Upgrades Personals – Does This Stuff Work? | Yahoo Personals is the largest dating site on the Internet (Match.com is second), so when they make a move, others in the industry notice.
Today they will announce a new feature called Quick View, and it’s designed to let users scan for pot... |
| 10.11.2006 | Relationship site, eHarmony, on quiet roll, retains Waldorf | EHarmony, the company known for its rigorous analysis of couples before sending them out on dates, has made several changes in leadership over the past year, but has settled on Greg Waldorf as chief executive.
Waldorf, an early backer of eH... |
| 12.07.2006 | MySpace – The (Almost) Premier Dating Site | Written by Ken Yarmosh, a Read/WriteWeb
Guest Blogger
On average, I hear a
Match.com commercial on the radio about once a day. In referring to their user base,
their catch phrase goes something like, “there are over 15 million reasons to us... |
| 09.05.2006 | What’s up at eHarmony? Appoints third CEO this year. | Waldorf
eHarmony, the private Pasadena company that seeks to hook up couples, has appointed its founding investor, Greg Waldorf, as interim chief executive officer.
He’s the third CEO this year. The company announced Waldorf’s appointment i... |
| 21.12.2004 | Sequoia hooks up with dating site eHarmony | The competitive tension between Silicon Valley’s two leading venture firms rose today, upon the announcement (see LA Times story, may require registration) that Sequoia Capital is helping pump nearly $110 million into online dating site eHa... |
| - | Любовь во времена алгоритмов: вы бы позволили искусственному интеллекту подобрать себе партнера? | Искусственный интеллект в 21-м веке пытается стать одним из незаменимых инструментов и уже успел проникнуть во многие сферы: банковские услуги, торговлю, науку, обучение. А теперь развитие технологий приводит его в некогда исключительно чел... |
| - | 4 reasons why you shouldn't use money to find a successful relationship, according to a psychotherapist | It takes some time to develop a strong relationship. Marcus Hessenberg/BarcroftImages/Barcroft Media via Getty Images
Amy Morin is a psychotherapist, licensed clinical social worker, mental strength coach, and author.
While paying someone t... |
| - | Сервис знакомств Tinder введет платные функции | Приложение Tinder, по сообщению VentureBeat, введет платную услугу в следующем месяце. CEO & Co-founder сервиса Шон Рэд (Sean Rad) заявил, что компания запустит платный сервис в начале ноября.
Запущенный 2 года назад Tinder вышел из биз... |
