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OLX is an internet company based in New York City, NY and Buenos Aires, Argentina. The OLX website hosts free user-generated classified advertisements for urban communities around the world and provides discussion forums sorted by various topics. OLX gained prominence upon announcing a partnership with Friendster, the social networking website. The story was covered by [...]

Gumtree is an extensive network of online classifieds and community websites. Classified ads are either free or paid for depending on the product category and the geographical market. Sellers may promote their listing through featured placements on the homepage or under product categories. Gumtree now covers 60 cities across 6 countries – the UK, Ireland, [...]

Kijiji (aka EbayClassifieds) is a centralized network of online urban communities for posting local online classified advertisements. It is a subsidiary of eBay launched in March 2005. Kijiji websites are currently available for more than 300 cities in Germany. Further Kijiji countries and regions are France, Italy, Canada, China, India, Taiwan, Belgium, Switzerland, Austria, and [...]

CareerBuilder is the largest online employment website in the United States, with more than 23 million unique visitors each month and a 34% market share of help-wanted web sites in the United States. CareerBuilder.com provides online career search services for more than 1,900 partners as of March 2008, including 140 newspapers and portals such as [...]

FriendFinder Networks is an internet holding company for numerous internet companies including the flagship site FriendFinder.com with 30 million active members worldwide. FriendFinder owns a number of other sites, such as Adult FriendFinder and Cams.com. The FriendFinder Network was founded in 1996 by Andrew Conru and is privately owned. The corporate headquarters is located in [...]

Meetic is an online dating service founded in November 2001 and publicly quoted since October 2005. It is among the main firms in its industry in Europe. Meetic was founded by Marc Simoncini. According to JupiterResearch, Meetic is the largest online dating service in Europe. The service had 525,000 subscribers in 2007. By February 2009, [...]

Perfectmatch.com is an online dating and relationship service based in Seattle, Washington. The company reports “it is the best approach for adults seeking successful, lasting relationships.” The company offers the Duet Total Compatibility System (Duet), co-developed by Seattle relationship expert, Dr. Pepper Schwartz who based Duet on more than 30 years of research. Duet is [...]

Lifeknot is a social networking website with a focus on shared interests and hobbies. It was founded in November 2003 by Matt Muro, is based in Boston, MA and is privately owned. Members create activity profiles listing their favorite activities and hobbies, in addition to optionally creating a personal profile common to online dating web [...]

The online matchmaking company Be2 is one of the leading matchmakers worldwide. Internationally, be2 is represented in 37 countries. The Be2 matchmaking system is based on a scientifically developed personality test. User profiles are compared to profiles from the database according to a matching algorithm. Psychological, anthropological and sociological criteria derived from the Myers–Briggs Type [...]

Chemistry.com is an online dating service. It is a sister site of Match.com and was established by a team who worked for the company. The site’s policies involve pairing members specifically for long-term relationships using methods it refers to as “compatibility” and “chemistry”, hence its namesake. As of December 2009 Chemistry.com has a user base [...]