Friends Reunited - New Owner and Over-50s Dating Site

On August 6th, 2009 DC Thomson acquired Friends Reunited Dating from ITV for £25m. All 60 staff members will get to keep their jobs. There is further news that DC Thomson plans to merge their genealogy website, Find My Past, with Friends Reunited's social networking, dating and genealogy operations. This will make DC Thomson one of the largest sites in the UK for the online paid-for genealogy market, with about a 50 percent share. Their main competition is Ancestry.com.

DC Thomson also plan to launch and over 50 dating site which they hope will appeal to the users of their genealogy business.

For the full story, read Guarduan.co.uk and to find out more about the dating site, check out our review of Friends Reunited Dating.