By allowing its users to pay for its service with Bitcoin, OKCupid is showing that it isn't quite sure what it's demographic is.
Dabble in online dating? It turns out that the crippling fear of an awkward first date is the least of your troubles. A fraud is sweeping online dating sites, according to a special report in this month's issue of Glamour Magazine.
Guest Post With the emergence of new technologies and the growing popularity of social networks, the online romance industry is constantly evolving.
If LinkedIn and eHarmony had a baby, it would probably look and act something like HireQ.
Having learned of three separate rape cases in which adults used its app to target teens, Skout, a location-based app for flirting with nearby strangers, has shut down its under-18 community.
“We recently became aware of some abuses of our …
At VentureBeat, we come across a lot of funding news every day. In order to bring you the most information possible, we’re rounding up the quick-and-dirty details about the funding deals of the day and serving them up here in …
Founded five years ago, Zoosk started to make a name for itself in online dating through Facebook and other social networking sites. Last year, it generated revenue of more than $90 million and was named in the top 50 venture-backed …
How do you feel about your relationship over the last seven days?
That’s the first question you’ll answer on the just-launched love-life improvement site TheIceBreak. Consider it a Formspring for couples.
TheIceBreak poses a daily icebreaker question for couples about …
Quick: what words are Silicon Valley singles more likely to use than other Americans when describing themselves on Internet dating sites?
Try these: queer, decadent, robot, raiding, wacky and telepathic, to name a few.
Musician and exerimental media dude R. …
Romance is alive and well — and it’s starting to become lucrative for dating startup Zoosk.
The San Francisco startup said that it’s current sales rate adds up to more than $90 million per year, an increase of more than …
Online dating site SmartDate announced today that it has raised an additional $5 million in its first fundraising round today to help promote its French online dating site and compete with other giants like OKCupid and Match.com.
SmartDate bills itself …
Just in case getting coupons for big discounts hasn’t won you over to group buying site Groupon, chief executive Andrew Mason announced some extra incentive today: The company is offering to send your kid to college.
To make that happen, …
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 seed round of $750,000, …
