The online dating industry is now about 15 years old, but sites continue to be dogged by allegations that they’re bloated with fake or inactive profiles. Attorneys who filed the newest lawsuit in this vein, on behalf of five Match.com users who are asking for class action status, say their…

Yahoo’s strategy of outsourcing a string of its businesses—including Personals—has some former employees rankled. Here’s an excerpt of a blog post by Susan Mernit, who led Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) Personals for two years ending in 2008. (Via Online Dating Insider): Match taking over Yahoo’s Personals category is a great idea…

Although magazines are getting a breather from the ad recovery, the realization that marketers’ spending isn’t going to make a full comeback is pushing publishers into arrangements they steadfastly avoided in the recent past. Case in point: Condé Nast’s Glamour, though one of its biggest attractions to advertisers, is now…

Match.com has sent letters to several rival dating sites demanding that they stop circulating what the company considers to be false statistics about their services. We reported yesterday that Match.com had asked PlentyOfFish to stop making some claims about its site—but Match.com CEO Greg Blatt tells us the company sent…

IAC’s Match.com is making another acquisition—this time buying up Singlesnet, which as of January was the 11th largest dating site in the world by unique visitors. In a release, Match.com describes the deal as “more of a value acquisition than a strategic one” and notes that Singlesnet’s traffic is on…

Another profitable quarter for IAC (NSDQ: IACI) (that’s two in a row) aided by $35 million in gains from the sale OpenTable shares and Match Europe, and by lower corporate costs compared to the spinoff numbers last year. Even without the gains, IAC still beat the Thomson First Call consensus…

Broad-based online dating site Match.com is buying into the targeted subscription dating business with the acquisition of People Media from private equity firm American Capital Ltd. and various investors for $80 million in cash. The deal will add 27 dating sites with a combined 255,000 paying subs to the IAC…

Turns out IAC (NSDQ: IACI) isn’t ready for commitment. The New York-based Ask.com operator is selling its dating site Match.com‘s European business to French rival Meetic. Still, it’s a sweet kind of pre-nup to be formed in the week after Valentine’s Day - IAC is getting €5 million ($6.34 million)…