Irish President Mary McAleese, the country’s second – and consecutive – female president, greets Queen Elizabeth in Dublin today. The queen is the first UK monarch to visit Ireland since 1911, following the country’s bitter war for independence. Security is tight for the historic visit; police have already subverted a planned bomb attack and downtown [...]
The man who raised Kate Hudson since she was a toddler and who she considers her dad, Kurt Russell, told a Canadian entertainment show that he loved all of her exes. He said he still loves the starlet’s ex-husband, Chris Robinson, who’s the father of her 7-year-old son, Ryder, and had a good time hanging [...]
The soon-to-be fiancé in this video isn’t the first guy to propose in the form of a movie preview he created. In fact, he isn’t even the first to bring the DIY trailer beyond YouTube and onto the big screen by convincing a movie theater to play the trailer – the man behind last year’s [...]
There are new updates to the Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver split: Arnold fathered a child 10 years ago with a member of the household staff who worked with the family for 20 years before retiring in January. Maria left after he fessed up about the child earlier this year. This isn’t the first time [...]
Chris asks: I am newly separated after a 19 year marriage, and have started going out with a gal whom I have a great time with. She is funny, bright, outgoing, the works. My dilemma is that I don’t want to get serious with this girl. I don’t have any feelings for her but I [...]
After signing up yesterday with a silly profile and ugly photo, I’ve received my first flirt from the new Match over-50 dating site, OurTime. This is where I really feel for singles. Do I pay $20, $53 or $71 to see who flirted with me? In any other context, paying $20 to read an email [...]
Jiayuan.com International Ltd., operator of the largest online dating platform in China, today announced that its initial public offering of 7,100,000 American Depositary Shares (“ADSs”), with every two ADS representing three ordinary shares of the Company, was priced at $11.00 per ADS. The ADSs began trading on NASDAQ today, May 11, 2011, under the symbol “DATE.” [...]
Match.com has launched a new dating site for 50-plus singles. Featuring over a million profiles at launch, OurTime.com is actually a People Media site, as you can tell from the templates used. I’m not sure if the million profiles are from SeniorPeopleMeet and SeniorBlackPeoplemeet, but thats what it sounds like. Does this mean that profiles were [...]
Attention Internet World attendees in London next week, WhiteLabelDating, the international leader in customer focused, flexible & scalable online dating systems, will be hosting a seminar with Dennis Publishing at Internet World. The seminar, ‘Making Money through Online Dating’ will be presented in the Advertising, Affiliate & Search theatre on Wednesday 11th May at 10.45am. [...]
I don’t often pick on specific dating sites that make it difficult to deal with billing issues but this reader’s story is one that I am hearing all to often these days, and not just about be2.com. Lightly edited for length and clarity: You are probably aware that be2.com are under scrutiny. I signed up with be2 [...]