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| Singles Week spent speed dating | DatingDirect, the Brummie-based dating service, has been sold to French dating company Meetic for £27.3m. | Matchmaking sites can weed out potential bad dates, but safety is an issue |
| About 150 dating hopefuls with name tags plastered to their shirts strutted their stuff quick-style at the Speed Dating event Sept. 19 at the PUB. Three times as many males as females - and one robot ?- participated in the event. Student Union and Activities Advisory Board (SUAAB) Holiday Chair Yormynnelly Grajales chose the speed dating event to coincide with National Singles Week. "It's not necessarily for people to find dates or to find a prospective husband, but just to meet other people, ... | The company was started in 1999 by Darren Richards and Andrew Pike and now claims over 4.5 million members - 3.5 million of them in the UK - which makes it the UK's largest dating service. But as well as running its own very successful service the company also offers white label services for other brands like Channel4 and TrinityMirror. DatingDirect turned over about £11m last year. The acquisition also includes the Chemistry company which organises real-world dating events. Meetic is a ... | Like everything else in today’s society, the dating scene is online.In a world where instant messaging and e-mails are replacing face-to-face and phone conversations, online dating is becoming less of a desperate attempt for love and more of a matchmaking friend.“People that actually join online dating services are serious about finding someone with similar interests because it takes time and effort finding people and talking with them before actually meeting,” said junior Nicole Merkel. However... |
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