Dating Sites Hang on Despite Increasing Competition
Due to a reporting error, the story "Dating sites hang on despite increasing competition" posted Monday contained incorrect revenue figures for Meetic and Match.com in the 10th paragraph.
The story has been fixed on the wire, and the corrected paragraph follows:
Meetic saw its revenue go from ¬53.2 million (US$76.9 million) in the first half of 2007 to ¬63 million for the same period this year, said Mark Brooks, who runs a consultancy focusing on social networks and dating Web sites. Over the same period, Match.com went from ¬117 million to ¬127.5 million.





