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Chinese Internet Holding Firm Koolanoo Gets $25 Million Funding

PAID CONTENT -- Aug 6 -- Koolanoo received the funding at the same time it announced a planned IPO on the Hong Kong market. The company is headquartered in Beijing and owns 360Quan, a local teen network. Koolanoo actually started as a Jewish dating site and social network in Israel and then moved to China. FULL ARTICLE @ WASHINGTON POST

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Facebook For Faithful

THE STAR -- Sep 8 -- Spreading the Word in a wired world: Christian, Muslim and Jewish groups give religion a Web 2.0 makeover. Online community MyChurch.org has more than 6,000 churches, with 35,000 registered users. MuslimSpace.com has 30,000 registered users, a page view count of around 3 million per month and a general growth of 5 per cent per week. Koolanoo.com bills itself as "the world's first Jewish social network." FULL ARTICLE @ THE STAR

Jewish Singles Discovering Social Networking Sites for Dating

ISRAEL NEWS AGENCY -- Aug 17 -- The online Jewish dating scene is changing. JDate and its wannabes (JMatch, Jkarma, Jewish Café, Blind-Date, Frumster, 2become1, and DosiDate), with their high costs, low success rates, and false ads, are becoming a thing of the past. Replacing them are social networking sites – like World of Jewish, Shmooze, and Koolanoo – that allow single Jewish people to connect on multiple levels for free. FULL ARTICLE @ ISRAEL NEWS AGENCY

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