HowAboutWe expands Couples product to keep the flames of love alive

Dating site HowAboutWe announced the launch of its new Couples product in San Francisco today, intended to help people in relationships have as much fun as their single peers.

Amazon cloud outages causing customer defection: dating site says it’s splitsville

Amazon’s repeated recent cloud outages are causing at least one customer defection. Dating auction site What’s Your Price is leaving Amazon for a Fiberhub, a web hosting company in Las Vegas.

“We just can’t have this inconsistency with the service,” …

Need new friends? Social network Badoo will help — now 150M strong

While Facebook has focused on keeping in touch with the boring minutia of your current friends’ lives, social networking competitor Badoo has taken the opposite approach as a platform to make new friends. Badoo announced this morning that it will …

Data is the new dating: Yoke hooks 7,000 users to its app in one week

UPDATE: Yoke founder Rob Fishman wrote us to say another 2,000 people joined since last night, and we have updated the headline accordingly.

The hardest part about starting a dating site is getting a crowd of interesting people to join …

Non-dating socializer Facebook app Shaker wins Disrupt Cup

Shaker, an online chat room where Facebook users can interact with other Facebook users, won the Disrupt Cup as the most disruptive company at the TechCrunch Disrupt 2011 conference in San Francisco.

It’s kind of like Habbo Hotel, where you …

Shaker founders swear it’s not a dating app on Facebook

Shaker, a Facebook application that drops you into a virtual environment where you can interact with other Facebook users, is not a dating app. Never mind you can strike up a conversation with that cute guy or girl your friend …