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• Adult FriendFinder sale: "Sweet if it were true" [Andrew Conru]

  Published: November 17, 2007, 3:33 pm

  Tags: Adult Friendfinder, Andrew Conru, Deals, Penthouse, Various Inc

  or its best-known property, Adult FriendFinder. "We haven't sold anything," he said. "It would be sweet if it were true." Conru has never raised outside money for his site and still owns 90 percent of Various. That means that any sale is really his call. But then there's this. "We're focusing on the growth of the company," Conru said. Here's a

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• Did Andrew Conru sell Adult FriendFinder for $100 million? [Rumormonger]

  Published: November 17, 2007, 11:59 am

  Tags: Adult Friendfinder, Andrew Conru, Deals, Rumormonger, Top, Various Inc

  X-rated classifieds website, Adult FriendFinder, from sedate Palo Alto. Rumor has it that he just sold the site, one of his many properties, for $100 million. Michael Arrington reports that he may have sold his company, Various Inc., for $1 billion. A nice headline, but we doubt it. What Conru has said in the past is that he wants to take Various

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• Social nerdwanking [Valleyspeak]

  Published: December 10, 2007, 9:46 am

  Tags: Adult Friendfinder, Comics, Facebook, Flickr, Friendster, Metafilter, Myspace, Orkut, Valleyspeak

  Coined by R. Stevens in his webcomic Diesel Sweeties, "social nerdwanking" means lording your social-network superiority over others, which is secretly the only reason you bother with Facebook, Tumblr, Twitter, Orkut, and every other social network. Except your legitimate if fruitless use of Adult FriendFinder.

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• Adult FriendFinder sale to Penthouse now just "sweet" [Acquisitions]

  Published: December 11, 2007, 8:19 am

  Tags: Acquisitions, Adult Friendfinder, Andrew Conru, Penthouse, Porn, Various Inc

  Alto porn baron had sold FriendFinder Inc., the parent company of porn-laden classifieds site Adult FriendFinder. Sweet indeed, then. Multiple sources have told us Various was sold on Friday, and one confirms that Penthouse is the buyer. A tipster says that there's an all-hands meeting today at 2 p.m. to inform employees of "exciting times

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• Penthouse buys Adult FriendFinder [Acquisitions]

  Published: December 12, 2007, 1:29 pm

  Tags: Acquisitions, Adult Friendfinder, Andrew Conru, Confirmed, Danni Ashe, Danni Com, Marc Bell, Penthouse, Top, Various Inc

  of history, the founder of Adult FriendFinder has sold his company, Various Inc., to Penthouse for $500 million. This despite his earlier denials. The price actually seems low, considering Various's projected revenues this year of $340 million. But the porn business has always suffered from a market discount, as distaste thins the ranks of

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• AdultFriendFinder looking for multiple partners? [Rumormonger]

  Published: December 19, 2007, 6:20 pm

  Tags: Adult Friendfinder, Andrew Conru, Penthouse, Porn, Rumormonger, Various Inc

  acquired Andrew Conru's Adult FriendFinder for $500 million, a rumor spread that FriendFinder was making offers itself to buy smaller porn sites. Sources told Adult Entertainment Today AFF made offers on two sites that might not have large profits but "have attracted media attention and large numbers of regular visitors." Will the rollup

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• Adult FriendFinder looking for multiple partners? [Rumormonger]

  Published: December 19, 2007, 6:20 pm

  Tags: Adult Friendfinder, Andrew Conru, Penthouse, Porn, Rumormonger, Various Inc

  acquired Andrew Conru's Adult FriendFinder for $500 million, a rumor spread that FriendFinder was making offers itself to buy smaller porn sites. Sources told Adult Entertainment Today AFF made offers on two sites that might not have large profits but "have attracted media attention and large numbers of regular visitors." Will the rollup

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• Top 50 Websites According to Alexa

  Published: June 5, 2008, 8:33 am

  Tags: Lists, Adult Friendfinder, Amazon, Aol Instant Messenger, Apple Computer Inc, Bank Of America, Bbc Newsline, Chase Manhattan Bank, Cnn, Craigslist Org, Ebay, Espn Sportszone, Gamespot, Google, Internet Movie Database, Major League Baseball, Nationwide Bank, New York Times

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• Top 50 Websites According to Alexa

  Published: June 5, 2008, 8:33 am

  Tags: Lists, Adult Friendfinder, Amazon, Aol Instant Messenger, Apple Computer Inc, Bank Of America, Bbc Newsline, Chase Manhattan Bank, Cnn, Craigslist Org, Ebay, Espn Sportszone, Gamespot, Google, Internet Movie Database, Major League Baseball, Nationwide Bank, New York Times

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