New York Online Dating: Online dating services taking customers back to real-life events
NEW YORK - Online dating services are taking their customers back to the bars.Real-life events, ranging from parties at night clubs to glassblowing classes, have become big business for online dating companies.Chris Terrill, Match.com's vice president for off-line initiatives, won't give dollar figures, but says his division's revenues have more than doubled since last year, when it ran 1,000 events.Among the 1,600 to 1,800 events this year:...
New York Online Dating: new york
Workers divided over instant messaging NEW YORK -- One in five Americans who use instant-messaging programs do so at work, and most consider it a mixed blessing that can encourage gossip or add stress, a new survey from the Pew Internet and American Life Project finds.Overall, the experience is positive: Eleven percent of the at-work instant messengers consider the tool essential.Two-thirds consider IM mostly positive, but a mixed blessing.Half say it helps them save time,...
New York Online Dating: Business briefs
E. Panhandle hospitals to join WVU system MARTINSBURG - Two nonprofit community hospitals in the Eastern Panhandle have agreed to merge with West Virginia University Hospitals to create a regional health care corporation known as WVU Hospitals-East.The boards of directors at City Hospital in Martinsburg and Jefferson Memorial Hospital approved the consolidation Wednesday.When the proposed merger was announced in March, it was described as a way to stop more than 100 people per day...
New York Online Dating: Interviewing at warp speed
Perhaps you've heard of speed dating--the hyper-condensed approach to courtship that has become a hip way for busy urbanites to meet other singles. Recently, a New York online-dating company adapted the craze as way to make a match with potential employees. With speed dating, a group of men and women meet in a restaurant or bar and each spend three minutes together to see whether they hit it off. Faced with a flood of resumes, Louis Kanganis, CEO of Spring Street Networks,...
New York Online Dating: TECHBITS IM at work
NEW YORK - One in five Americans who use instant-messaging programs do so at work, and most consider it a mixed blessing that can encourage gossip or add stress, a new survey from the Pew Internet and American Life Project finds.Overall, the experience is positive: 11 percent of the at-work instant messengers consider the tool essential. Two-thirds consider IM mostly positive, but a mixed blessing. Half say it helps them save time, and 40 percent credit it for improving teamwork.But 32...