General News

eHarmony in the United States is having a free communication event this weekend from May 27 to May 30, which falls close to Memorial Day. During this eHarmony event, new and existing members will be able to use the guided communication process for free which allows you to interact with other members by asking and answering questions.

Along with guided communication, members will also be able to create a profile and receive matches at no cost and with no credit card required. Viewing of members profile pictures and Secure Call communication are not included in this promotion.

This will be eHarmony's 34th (I believe) free communication event with the last one occurring for the entire month of February (see Story).

To find out more details on this popular online dating site that matches you based on personality, please check out our eHarmony.com review.

Markus over on the Plenty of flish blog posted that the Plenty of Fish dating service surpassed 6 million logins in one day for the first time on Sunday May 15 (Sunday is usually his peak traffic day for the week). In the post he displayed a point chart which shows that about 4 years ago they had maybe 1.2 million logins per day and since then it has been a slow but steady rise to the 6 million milestone.

For more information on this dating service you can check out our review of Plenty of Fish.

FriendFinder Networks expected to raise $50 million in gross profit from its IPO which started trading May 11, 2011 on the Nasdaq under the "FFN" ticker symbol. The company expect shares to go for around $10 and plan to sell 5 million. The money raised from the IPO has been earmarked to pay down their debt.

FriendFinder Networks stock price currently sits at $5.67 per stock and it has been as low as $5.32 per stock in the past few days.

To find out more about dating sites owned by FriendFinder Networks you can read our review of Passion.com and our review of FriendFinder.

Related Story: FriendFinder Networks Plans To Revisit Public Offering

We are a little late letting you know about Chemistry.com's free weekend in May. It started yesterday (May 13) and goes for 3 days and ends at midnight on Sunday May 15, 2011. Chemistry free weekends allow all members to communicate at no cost. Since members already are able to create a profile and receive matches for free this means that this weekend is the best time for singles interested in finding a long-term relationship to try out Chemistry, and all without having to use your credit card.

The last Chemistry free weekend was in March (see Story). To find out more information about this matchmaking service, please read our review of Chemistry.com.

Last month Jiayuan.com applied to list on the Nasdaq. Well, on May 11th Jiayuan.com (China's largest dating site) opened for trading under the symbol DATE at $11 per share. At one point it reached $11.62 a share but by end of trading it had fallen 4.4 percent to close at $10.52 per share. As of writing this post one share of the company is worth $10.68 US dollars.

From the IPO Jiayaun said they raised $78.1 million from 7.1 million American depositary shares.

For more on this story you can read .

A dating site for singles 50-plus called OurTime.com was launched the other day by People Media. People Media is owned by IAC which also owns the popular dating services Match.com and Chemistry.

OurTime.com launched with over 1 million profiles in its database. These profiles were gathered from some of IAC's existing dating sites that had singles which matched a number of criteria, including being over the age of 50. Combining all of these profiles into one dating site makes OurTime.com one of the larger services online to cater this niche.

Singles visiting OurTime.com can expect the members to be more interested in long-term relationships and companionship rather than marriage. Members tend also to be more traditional in their thinking and much happier with their personal lives when compared to someone younger.

For more on this story you can read the press release. At the moment we do not have a review of OurTime.com but for a similar dating service you should check out our Senior People Meet review.

Update: Our new review of OurTime.com is now available online.