Census reports are easily searchable, campaign polling is expertly parsed and analysed, and online dating behaviour provides a glimpse into human sexuality.
With its rock-solid balance sheet, driven by accelerating revenues in its search and online dating businesses, IAC can afford to absorb on its own the losses that made the Harmans flinch.
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Picking up the pace on the exit front, Qiming took content delivery network China Cache public in the last quarter of 2010 and online dating site Jiayuan this May, though neither have scored blockbuster IPOs.
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Team names and names for proposed solutions that borrowed elements of online dating and matchmaking services said it all: Kar Match, eCarmony, Car Cupid and Car Match by Team Love-o-Matic.
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Also responsible is the city's scanty cultural options and lackluster online-dating community.
In fact, Beantown sits near the top of the list in nearly every category, thanks to its wealth of creative types, multiple colleges and active online-dating community.
He has time for his career, golf and Twitter, but online dating is just too time-consuming.
One might assume that the Internet and the proliferation of online dating would hurt the matchmaking business.
"In online dating and in life, it's nice to have thick skin, let things roll of your back and move on, " she said.
By offering fast ananlysis of large amount of data, ScaleOut Software has won clients in such disparate uses as finance, online dating and home shopping.
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Mr. Samit says ad revenue is growing, and the company is exploring deals with a range of partners, from online-dating, shopping and poker sites, to remote surgery applications.
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After the world learned that Notre Dame linebacker Manti T'eo's online girlfriend never existed, CNN invited readers to share their own online dating ups and downs.
There are more ways than ever to meet new people: online dating, Grouper, speed dating, and all of the old fashioned ways on top of those.
They bonded over their online dating scammer stories and got married 14 months later.
Imagine that you are looking to sign up for an online dating site, and you there are two available.
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This was perfectly expressed to me by a 29-year-old female personal trainer in Denver who had experimented with online dating, matchmakers and blind dates.
But anyone who has spent a lot of time dating online, and not just dabbling, has his or her share of horror stories, too.
With poor performances in the online dating, coolness and night life categories, it's no surprise the Motor City is emulating its struggling auto industry, dropping from No. 16 to No. 33 on this year's list.
To generate the rankings, we made a list of 40 large U.S. metropolitan centers, then ranked each of them in seven areas: nightlife, culture, job growth, number of other singles, cost of living alone, coolness and, for the first time, online dating activity.
"Online dating is like a buffet, " Marni Battista, founder and CEO of Dating with Dignity, said.
On Realmatch.com, modeled after online dating sites, job seekers and searchers can type in their interests, and possible matches pop up.
Now that Match.com, OKCupid, and EHarmony have standardized the process of dating online, perhaps we do need a site to machinize the break-up process.
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The second approach works like online dating services, requiring job seekers and sometimes recruiters to fill out detailed profiles or questionnaires about their goals so that the software can suggest potential matches.
Although online dating sites like Match.com and Lavalife have been around since nearly the inception of the commercial Internet, these newer sites are much more elaborate than virtual manifestations of "lonely hearts" columns.
She identified two big social trends that have led to a greater reliance on online dating: an aging population, and women around the world entering the workforce, marrying later, divorcing more, moving from place to place.
Online dating giants such as Match.com and eHarmony say it's usually best to take into consideration many factors, not just one, in finding a partner.
According to a survey of 5200 people conducted by online dating site Chemistry.com, both men and women say the top three qualities they look for in a romantic partner are someone they can trust, someone they can confide in, and someone who gives them respect.
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These services write dating profiles, fish for prospects and perform the initial online flirting required to set up a first date.
The obvious advantage of online dating is that it provides a wider pool of possibility and choice.
Last June, Nagaraj and two felllow Harvard graduates launched Wings as a new way to do online dating.
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