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The quality of these two startups that received funding is what makes this story suspicious:

http://www.flikdate.com/ http://www.ozolio.com/about.html

Yeah, both companies have been around for a while and don't look to be winning it big any time soon. Also, flikdate recently had a merger with CrossBox (http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1493563/0001575872140...) that previously (under the name gogreendirectories) was a "Web portal for environmentally friendly green products and services"? I fail to see the synergy there.

CrossBox is also somehow related to First Rate Boxing, which sells speedbags, so the synergy is obvious: dating + green products + boxing = environmentally friendly speedbags for first date boxing matches?

flikdate.com is down for me as of right now.

I signed up for a free trial on Ozolio and they emailed me asking to call for a demo and included nine links to customer pages that included live webcam footage. Seems legit, although not necessary a smokin' hot game changer.

Flikdate.com has been unavailable since at least Friday, but it's back up today... but the headline says, "coming very very soon"

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