Rocket Internet SE is finding Asia a hard market to crack

http://www.dealstreetasia.com/stories/rocket-internet-is-finding-asia-a-hard-market-to-crack-25274/

Foodpanda cuts 500 jobs; to shut delivery services in six cities
http://www.ibtimes.co.in/foodpanda-cuts-500-jobs-shut-delivery-services-six-cities-661370

All the domino should fall ...  when they run out of money! 
Board Battle at Rocket Internet SE. Grabau GAME OVER.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/12/board-battle-at-rocket-internet-se.html
 
Rocket Internet SE future decided in the emerging markets
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/12/rocket-internet-se-future-decided-in.html

Rocket Internet shares fall nearly 12% after bond sale
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/07/rocket-internet-shares-fall-nearly-12.html

What went wrong in FoodPanda: everything
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/12/what-went-wrong-in-foodpanda-everything.html

AshleyMadison 70,000 fake female profiles created by company

http://www.albanydailystar.com/technology/famous-adult-dating-database-hacked-site-has-70000-fake-bot-female-account-14912.html

'Don't pay': Says security expert to AshleyMadison victims
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/12/dont-pay-says-security-expert-to.html

AshleyMadison App IS NOT Rebounding to Pre-hack Highs
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/12/ashley-madison-app-is-not-rebounding-to.html

SA article: Should You Show Match Group Some Love In Your Portfolio?

http://seekingalpha.com/article/3780166-should-you-show-match-group-some-love-in-your-portfolio

Great article. I strongly agree with the author because:

* The Match Group has a big debt because they had overpaid for PlentyOfFish (It was insane, USD575 Million for PlentyOfFish that past its prime 2 years ago).
* The Match Group is only a collection of old and obsolete online dating sites: Match, Meetic, Chemistry, OkCupid, FriendScout24, OurTime, HowAboutWe and many more.
* Tinder will not monetize as expected and can collapse like Skout (problems with minors using it). Also Tinder is in war with other online dating application: Bumble backed by Badoo (powered by a Russian Mafia of hackers & spies)
* The Match Group is not going to innovate and revolutionize the Online Dating Industry in the next years.

SA article: Match Group slumps after IPO underwriters launch coverage
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/12/sa-article-match-group-slumps-after-ipo.html

Match Group overhauls management; chairman taking over CEO role
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/12/match-group-overhauls-management.html

Match Group Inc (MTCH) Earns “Sell” Rating from BTIG Research
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/12/match-group-inc-mtch-earns-sell-rating.html

ARTICLE What is your Tinder horror story?
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/12/article-what-is-your-tinder-horror-story.html


The only way to revolutionize the Online Dating Industry is using the 16PF5 normative personality test, available in different languages to assess personality of members, or a proprietary test with exactly the same traits of the 16PF5 and expressing compatibility with eight decimals (needs a quantized pattern comparison method, part of pattern recognition by cross-correlation, to calculate similarity between prospective mates.)
High precision in matching algorithms is precisely the key to open the door and leave the infancy of compatibility testing.
It is all about achieving the eighth decimal!
With 8 decimals, you have more precision than any person could achieve by searching on one's own, but the only way to achieve the eighth decimal is using analysis and correlationwith quantized patterns.
Without offering the NORMATIVE16PF5 (or similar test measuring exactly the 16 personality factors) for serious dating, it will be impossible to innovate and revolutionize the Online Dating Industry All other proposals are NOISE and perform as placebo

about article "Online dating has become a hobby, one that is often not even that fun"

Dating has gone from seeking soulmates to swiping faces to kill time

http://scroll.in/article/778034/online-dating-has-become-a-hobby-one-that-is-often-not-even-that-fun

Lack Of Innovation & Decadence can summarize the Online Dating Industry for years.
Online Dating for serious daters does not need to be more social, it needs to be more effective/efficient. It needs to reduce the false positives problem.

C-level executives are cooking barbecues under the water (selling smoke) and not paying attention to latest research from Academics which could be beneficial for the Online Dating Industry.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/09/likeli-likeit-likebright-12like-and-more.html

USA FTC Chief Technologist Ashkan Soltani On Algorithmic Transparency And The Fight Against Biased Bots
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/04/usa-ftc-chief-technologist-ashkan.html

I live in a South American country and I am really astonished to see how online daters in "1st World" countries are really victims of human experimentation. No actual online dating site  is "scientifically proven" because no one can prove its matching algorithm can match prospective partners who will have more stable and satisfying relationships -and very low divorce rates- than couples matched by chance, astrological destiny, personal preferences, searching on one's own, or other technique as the control group in a peer reviewed Scientific Paper for the majority (over 90%) of its members.  

The Online Dating Industry is performing like the Pharmaceutical and Cosmetic Industry before the USA Food and Drug Administration was created. There is no/weak Legislation, no ID verification, low reliable background checks, no Quality Norms.
No one compatibility matching method is Scientifically Proven.
The entire Online Dating Industry for serious daters in 1st World Countries is a HOAX, performing as a Big Online Casino, with a low effectiveness/efficiency level of their matching algorithms (less than 10%). In the same range as searching by your own.

The key to long-lasting romance is STRICT PERSONALITY SIMILARITY and not "meet other people with similar interests". 

The Online Dating Industry needs a very powerful algorithm like the "Teller Ulam design". In this case 100 times more powerful than actual matching algorithms. 

Not 100% better, 100 TIMES better
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/05/lifeproject-method-versus-eharmony.html     
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/11/article-sorry-singletons-but-dating.html

Rocket Internet SE future decided in the emerging markets

"Proven Winners" advertised, exhibited together in 2013 net losses in the amount of Euros 442 Million.
http://www.zeit.de/wirtschaft/2015-12/rocket-internet-unternehmen-boerse-oliver-samwer
http://www.zeit.de/wirtschaft/2015-12/rocket-internet-unternehmen-boerse-oliver-samwer/seite-2
http://www.finanztreff.de/news/rocket-internet-steigt-die-profitabilitaet-im-naechsten-jahr-deutlich-an/10979511

Proven Losers from Rocket Internet SE, not winners. PART 2
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/12/proven-losers-from-rocket-internet-se.html

ARTICLE What is your Tinder horror story?

What is your Tinder horror story?
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/3xvh51/what_is_your_tinder_horror_story/
One day and more than 14,200 comments later, there are more than a few shockers. As always, bad, harmless, dating stories are always entertaining.
http://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/life/tinder-horror-stories-20151224-gluonw.html


Perhaps Tinder can collapse like Skout (problems with minors using it)

Tinder privacy leaks! by Henning Wiechers (Metaflake)
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/11/tinder-privacy-leaks-by-henning.html

Match Group overhauls management; chairman taking over CEO role
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/12/match-group-overhauls-management.html

Match Group Inc (MTCH) Earns “Sell” Rating from BTIG Research
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/12/match-group-inc-mtch-earns-sell-rating.html

Match Group overhauls management; chairman taking over CEO role

http://seekingalpha.com/news/2999436-match-group-overhauls-management-chairman-taking-over-ceo-role

Everything seems to be a big nest of snakes, each guarding their territory.
but none can innovate without hurting the other.
Match is in serious decline, cannibalized by Tinder.

Match Group Inc (MTCH) Earns “Sell” Rating from BTIG Research
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/12/match-group-inc-mtch-earns-sell-rating.html

Match Group Inc (MTCH) Earns “Sell” Rating from BTIG Research

http://www.wkrb13.com/markets/967322/match-group-inc-mtch-earns-sell-rating-from-btig-research/


I agree because:

* The Match Group has a big debt because they had overpaid for PlentyOfFish.
* The Match Group is only a collection of old and obsolete online dating sites: Match, Meetic, Chemistry, OkCupid, FriendScout24, OurTime, HowAboutWe and many more. Even Tinder will not monetize as expected.
* The Match Group is not going to innovate and revolutionize the Online Dating Industry in the next years.


SA article: Match Group slumps after IPO underwriters launch coverage
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/12/sa-article-match-group-slumps-after-ipo.html

Proven Losers from Rocket Internet SE, not winners. PART 2

https://www.rocket-internet.com/sites/default/files/investors/2015-12-16_9M_Proven%20Winners%20Results_0.pdf
https://www.rocket-internet.com/sites/default/files/investors/151214%20Proven%20Winners%209M%2015%20Results%20-%20Appendix_0.pdf
https://www.rocket-internet.com/sites/default/files/investors/PR%20RCKT%209Months%202015%20Results%20ENG.pdf


All the domino should fall ...  when they run out of money! 

Board Battle at Rocket Internet SE. Grabau GAME OVER.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/12/board-battle-at-rocket-internet-se.html
Proven Losers from Rocket Internet SE, not winners. PART 1
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/07/proven-losers-from-rocket-internet-not.html

PAPER Birds of a feather do flock together:

behavior and language based personality assessment reveal personality homophily among couples and friends.

http://research.chicagobooth.edu/~/media/49984319C856404DBF130F9F541E59D9.pdf

PAPER "Private traits and attributes are predictable from digital records of human behavior"
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2013/03/paper-private-traits-and-attributes-are.html
Love at First Swipe: Online Dating is About Personality
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/10/love-at-first-swipe-online-dating-is.html

Please read “Top 45 Top Scientific Papers For The Online Dating Industry”
http://www.onlinepersonalswatch.com/internetdatingscience/2012/02/top-45-top-scientific-papers-for-the-online-dating-industry.html

Those papers clearly show the key to long-lasting romance is STRICT PERSONALITY SIMILARITY and not “meet other people with similar interests”.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/03/proof-of-fraud-from-eharmony.html
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/03/paper-tencentrec-real-time-stream.html
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/09/article-its-all-in-personality.html

Please read: The 8 tips to innovate in the Online Dating Industry!
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2013/12/the-8-tips-to-innovate-in-online-dating.html


The only way to revolutionize the Online Dating Industry is using the 16PF5 normative personality test, available in different languages to assess personality of members, or a proprietary test with exactly the same traits of the 16PF5 and expressing compatibility with eight decimals (needs a quantized pattern comparison method, part of pattern recognition by cross-correlation, to calculate similarity between prospective mates.)
High precision in matching algorithms is precisely the key to open the door and leave the infancy of compatibility testing.
It is all about achieving the eighth decimal!
With 8 decimals, you have more precision than any person could achieve by searching on one's own, but the only way to achieve the eighth decimal is using analysis and correlationwith quantized patterns.
Without offering the NORMATIVE16PF5 (or similar test measuring exactly the 16 personality factors) for serious dating, it will be impossible to innovate and revolutionize the Online Dating Industry All other proposals are NOISE and perform as placebo
  

Board Battle at Rocket Internet SE. Grabau GAME OVER.

Rocket Internet insists growth continues amid investor concerns

http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/324b8c28-a3cf-11e5-873f-68411a84f346.html
http://performancein.com/news/2015/12/17/rocket-internet-installs-new-chairman-following-alleged-rift-between-investor/
https://global.handelsblatt.com/edition/330/ressort/companies-markets/article/board-battle-at-rocket-internet
http://www.wallstreet-online.de/nachricht/8208228-rocket-internet-rocket-internet-verlangt-anlegern-geduld-boersengaenge-blick
http://de.reuters.com/article/idDEKBN0TZ0VI20151216

For me it seems only a big Ponzi scheme, a big bubble full of dark smoke. I suspect no one of those companies are designed to be profitable ever. They have big losses because they sell below cost to gain traction. All cloned companies seem like bubbles.

All the domino should fall ...  when they run out of money!
http://www.gruenderszene.de/allgemein/helpling-oesterreich-pause
http://www.gruenderszene.de/allgemein/entlassungen-bei-home24
Rocket Internet shares fall nearly 12% after bond sale
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/07/rocket-internet-shares-fall-nearly-12.html

What went wrong in FoodPanda: everything
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/12/what-went-wrong-in-foodpanda-everything.html

PAPER "Evaluating User's Personality and Social Interactions for Groups Recommendations"

http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1533/paper4.pdf

Personality Based Recommender Systems are the next generation of recommender systems because they perform far better than Behavioural ones (past actions and pattern of personal preferences).

If you want to be first in the "personalization arena" == Personality Based Recommender Systems, you should understand the ............ Online Dating Industry first of all!   

http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/12/paper-similarity-scores-evaluation-in.html


 
The 8 tips to innovate in the Online Dating Industry!
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2013/12/the-8-tips-to-innovate-in-online-dating.html  

The next wave of innovation!
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2013/06/the-next-wave-of-innovation.html
 
What comes after the Social Networking wave?
The Next Big Investment Opportunity on the Internet will be .... Personalization!
Personality Based Recommender Systems and Strict Personality Based Compatibility Matching Engines for serious Online Dating with the normative 16PF5 personality test.
Without offering the NORMATIVE16PF5 (or similar test measuring exactly the 16 personality factors) for serious dating, it will be impossible to innovate and revolutionize the Online Dating Industry. 

New ad from eDarling Spain (Affinitas GmbH.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIOpo5Vn-JA

Some time ago, Affinitas GmbH. renewed its homepage. 
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/10/affinitas-gmbh-renewed-its-homepage.html
and eHarmony Inc. will launch eHarmony Spain soon.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/12/alert-eharmony-mexico-soon.html
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/12/eharmony-mexico-spain-and-argentina.html

Affinitas GmbH. recently "booted" its "founders" and named a new CEO. But I think they will close soon when they run out of money!
All their sites (eDarling, EliteSingles, etc.) are copycats of eHarmony, like eSynchrony, TeAmoRU and MiMediaManzana.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/12/see-what-alexa-shows-about-online.html
 
but remember:
eHarmony, is a 15 years old obsolete site and a HOAX, based on a big scientific fraud, only sustained by big marketing budget.
The Big Five normative test had been proven/revealed as an incomplete and incorrect model to assess/measure personality of persons.
The Big Five normative test had been replaced by HEXACO or Big Six test.
 
Some data from eDarling France, German and Spain. (powered by Affinitas GmbH.)
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/10/some-data-from-edarling-france-german.html
 
Please read: The 8 tips to innovate in the Online Dating Industry!
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2013/12/the-8-tips-to-innovate-in-online-dating.html

'Don't pay': Says security expert to AshleyMadison victims

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/video/news/video-1237529/Dont-pay-Says-security-expert-Ashley-Madison-victims.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3362710/Ashley-Madison-blackmailers-sending-demands-members-affair-site-POST.html
http://www.coastreporter.net/ashley-madison-hack-not-the-wake-up-call-some-expected-experts-say-1.2133846


Class actions filed against AshleyMadison website consolidated in USA Missouri federal court.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/12/class-actions-filed-against.html

PAPER Similarity Scores Evaluation in Social Networking Sites

Abstract

In today's world, social networking sites are becoming increasingly popular. Often we find suggestions for friends, from such social networking sites. These friend suggestions help us identify friends that we may have lost touch with or new friends that we may want to make. At the same time, these friend suggestions may not be that accurate. To recommend a friend, social networking sites collect information about user's social circle and then build a social network based on this information. This network is then used to recommend to a user, the people he might want to befriend. FoF algorithm is one of the traditional techniques used to recommend friends in a social network. Delta-SimRank is an algorithm used to compute the similarity between objects in a network. This algorithm is also applied on a social network to determine the similarity between users. Here, we evaluate Delta-SimRank and FoF algorithm in terms of the friend suggestion provided by them, when applied on a Facebook dataset. It is observed that Delta-SimRank provides a higher precise similarity score because it considers the entire network around a user.


http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-81-322-2674-1_57


See also the paper
User Recommendation Based on Network Structure in Social Networks

Abstract

Advances in Web 2.0 technology has led to the popularity of social networking sites. One fundamental task for social networking sites is to recommend appropriate new friends for users. In recent years, network structure has been used for user recommendation. Most existing network structure-based recommendation methods either need to pre-specify the group number and structure type or fail to improve performance. In this paper, we propose a novel network structure-based user recommendation method, called Bayesian nonparametric mixture matrix factorization (BNPM-MF). The BNPM-MF model first employs a Bayesian nonparametric model to automatically determine the group number and the network structure in networks and then applies a matrix factorization method on each structure to user recommendation for improvement. Experiments conducted on a number of real networks demonstrate that the BNPM-MF model is competitive with other state-of-the-art methods.

http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-26555-1_55

Personality Based Recommender Systems are the next generation of recommender systems because they perform far better than Behavioural ones (past actions and pattern of personal preferences).

If you want to be first in the "personalization arena" == Personality Based Recommender Systems, you should understand the ............ Online Dating Industry first of all!  
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/11/paper-new-similarity-measure-for-user.html
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/10/paper-recommender-systems-supporting.html http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/04/paper-evaluation-of-similarity-functions.html

Similarity is a word that has different meanings for different persons or companies, it exactly depends on how mathematically is defined.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/04/paper-hybrid-personalized-recommender.html

Please see: "How to calculate personality similarity between users"
Short answer: the key is the ENSEMBLE!
(the whole set of different valid possibilities)
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2013/03/how-to-calculate-personality-similarity.html

 Please read also
PAPER Evaluation of Similarity Functions 
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/04/paper-evaluation-of-similarity-functions.html
An exercise of similarity.
How LIFEPROJECT METHOD calculates similarity.
STRICT PERSONALITY SIMILARITY by LIFEPROJECT METHOD.
Personality Distribution Curves using the NORMATIVE 16PF5.
ALGORITHMS & POWER CALCULATION.
Innovations: to take the 16PF5 test 3 times.
Why your brain distorts!
Matching Algorithms for the Online Dating Industry (serious daters)  
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2013/01/matching-algorithms-for-online-dating.html 
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/02/article-how-dating-companies-are-having.html
 
The key to long-lasting romance is STRICT PERSONALITY SIMILARITY, but ...
the only way to revolutionize the Online Dating Industry is using the 16PF5 normative personality test, available in different languages to assess personality of members, or a proprietary test with exactly the same traits of the 16PF5 and expressing compatibility with eight decimals (needs a quantized pattern comparison method, part of pattern recognition by cross-correlation, to calculate similarity between prospective mates.)
High precision in matching algorithms is precisely the key to open the door and leave the infancy of compatibility testing.
 
The 8 tips to innovate in the Online Dating Industry!
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2013/12/the-8-tips-to-innovate-in-online-dating.html  

The next wave of innovation!
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2013/06/the-next-wave-of-innovation.html
 
What comes after the Social Networking wave?
The Next Big Investment Opportunity on the Internet will be .... Personalization!
Personality Based Recommender Systems and Strict Personality Based Compatibility Matching Engines for serious Online Dating with the normative 16PF5 personality test.
Without offering the NORMATIVE16PF5 (or similar test measuring exactly the 16 personality factors) for serious dating, it will be impossible to innovate and revolutionize the Online Dating Industry. 

ALERT! eHarmony Mexico soon!

http://www.eharmony.com/mexico/
http://www.eharmony.com.mx

Please remember.
eHarmony, is a 15+ years old obsolete site and a HOAX, based on a big scientific fraud, only sustained by big marketing budget.
The Big Five normative test had been proven/revealed as an incomplete and incorrect model to assess/measure personality of persons.
The Big Five normative test had been replaced by HEXACO or Big Six test.


Please read: The 8 tips to innovate in the Online Dating Industry!
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2013/12/the-8-tips-to-innovate-in-online-dating.html


The key to long-lasting romance is STRICT PERSONALITY SIMILARITY and not "meet other people with similar interests". 
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/11/article-sorry-singletons-but-dating.html

The Online Dating Industry needs a very powerful algorithm like the "Teller Ulam design". In this case 100 times more powerful than actual matching algorithms. 

Not 100% better, 100 TIMES better
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/05/lifeproject-method-versus-eharmony.html         

eHarmony Mexico, Spain and Argentina
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/12/eharmony-mexico-spain-and-argentina.html

Founders Of iDate & Online Personals Watch Put Businesses On Sale For Millions ? (via GDI)

http://globaldatinginsights.com/10122015-founders-of-idate-and-online-personals-watch-put-businesses-on-sale-for-millions/


Year over year regurgitating the same statistics, talking the same rubbish at iDate Conferences.

Lack Of Innovation & Decadence can summarize the Online Dating Industry 2015
C-Level executives are more worried about their golf scores than their company’s long term strategy and innovations.
C-level executives are cooking barbecues under the water (selling smoke) and not paying attention to latest research from Academics which could be beneficial for the Online Dating Industry.
Wasting precious time with Matchmakers which should be obsolete.
The Online Dating Industry needs to kill the Matchmaking Industry, like computers killed typewriters.
GDI conference at same time and place iDate's ? 
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/07/gdi-conference-at-same-time-and-place.html

London 2015 Post-ConferenceS Review 
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/10/london-2015-post-conferences-review.html

Please read: The 8 tips to innovate in the Online Dating Industry!
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2013/12/the-8-tips-to-innovate-in-online-dating.html

The Online Dating Industry does not need a 10% improvement, a 50% improvement or a 100% improvement. It does need "a 100 times better improvement", not 100% better, 100X better .
The Online Dating Industry needs a very powerful algorithm like the "Teller Ulam design". In this case 100 times more powerful than actual matching algorithms. 

Not 100% better, 100 TIMES better
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/05/lifeproject-method-versus-eharmony.html   

SA article: Match Group slumps after IPO underwriters launch coverage

http://seekingalpha.com/news/2982126-match-group-slumps-after-ipo-underwriters-launch-coverage

Match Group has a big debt because they had overpaid for PlentyOfFish.
what Alexa shows about online dating sites!
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/12/see-what-alexa-shows-about-online.html

The Match Group is not going to innovate and revolutionize the Online Dating Industry in the next years.
 A Book about Tinder - Bumble war. Bumble by Badoo (Russian Mafia of hackers & spies)
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/11/sa-article-closer-look-at-match-group.html

What went wrong in FoodPanda: everything

Was bei Foodpanda alles schief ging
http://www.gruenderszene.de/allgemein/foodpanda-ralf-wenzel-hub
all the domino should fall ...  when they run out of money!
Rocket Internet's Samwer Brothers + AB Kinnevik + Tengelmann Ventures.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/04/rocket-internets-samwer-brothers-ab.html
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/03/easytaxi-argentina-and-yepdoc-brazil.html
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/04/a-very-complicated-interlace-of-jade.html

"Rocket Internet's huge ambitions: to take down Ikea"
http://venturevillage.eu/rocket-internet-wants-to-take-down-ikea
"the accelerator claims that almost all of its eCommerce ventures will be pushed to make billion-dollar turnovers and generate two-figure percentage returns on sales."

Big investments, big losses
As for the young Latin American Amazon clone, Linio, 2017 is set to be a good year – with estimated revenues of €281m, the Samwers claim that the return on sales will be an impressive 12%. This is a clear sign of the Samwers’ huge and rather unrealistic ambitions: by comparison, the company’s US original, Amazon, makes just over 1% in returns.

Rocket Internet SE, empire with feet of clay?
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/12/rocket-internet-se-empire-with-feet-of.html

See what Alexa shows about online dating sites!

http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/www.match.com
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/www.okcupid.com
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/www.pof.com
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/www.eharmony.com
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/www.eharmony.co.uk
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/www.eharmony.ca
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/www.eharmony.com.au
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/www.edarling.de
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/www.edarling.fr
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/www.edarling.es
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/www.edarling.ru
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/www.elitesingles.ca
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/www.elitesingles.co.uk
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/www.elitesingles.com
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/www.elitesingles.co.za
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/www.friendscout24.de
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/www.mimediamanzana.pe
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/www.mimediamanzana.cl
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/www.mimediamanzana.mx
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/www.teamo.ru
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/www.meetic.fr
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/www.parship.de
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/www.zoosk.com
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/www.badoo.com
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/www.ashleymadison.com

http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/07/is-affinitas-gmbh-going-to-close-soon.html
Something is happening just now!
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2013/10/alexa-seismograph-station-for-internet.html 

 

Class actions filed against AshleyMadison website consolidated in USA Missouri federal court.

http://legalnewsline.com/stories/510652364-class-actions-filed-against-ashley-madison-website-consolidated-in-missouri-federal-court

AshleyMadison App IS NOT Rebounding to Pre-hack Highs
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/12/ashley-madison-app-is-not-rebounding-to.html


AshleyMadison customers complain of blackmail after hack
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/11/ashleymadison-customers-complain-of.html
AshleyMadison “the most interesting hack” says John McAfee
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/11/ashleymadison-most-interesting-hack.html

comScore report: 2015 Argentina Digital Future in Focus

http://www.comscore.com/Insights/Presentations-and-Whitepapers/2015/2015-Argentina-Digital-Future-in-Focus

It is not mobile only, it is multi-platform!
www.comscore.com/layout/set/popup/content/download/32743/1838093/version/1/file/2015_Argentina_Digital_Future_in_Focus.pdf

Desktop / Laptop engagement has not declined!
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/10/desktop-laptop-engagement-has-not.html

2015 Global Digital Future in Focus (by comScore)
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/10/2015-global-digital-future-in-focus-by.html