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BuzzMashr has been following the online dating scene for quite some time now, and things aren’t getting any easier for the singles out there. Signing up on site after site, creating profile after profile, digging through old photos to find something acceptable, and scouring the landscape for potential mates is time consuming, stressful, and the outcome can often be less than desirable. Maybe you could use a little help…

We recently introduced you to Intelius’ Date Check application which lets you “look up before you hook up”, as well as Intelius’ advice on straying spouses. This same information services company is now offering to boost your knowledge in the dating realm. Introducing, the Dream Date Contest! Entering is simple. Submit a video detailing your dream date and how you would spend the $1000 prize to make it happen. Or, if you’re a bit old fashioned, you can enter by sending in a letter and photo.

The winners of the Intelius Date Check Contest are entered to win some serious goods to help step up their dating game. The prizes include dating books, DVDs, chocolates, and a private relationship analysis with an expert in the field.

Intelius Date Check CES Demo:

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More information on Date Check
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Background on Intelius
CEO of Intelius: Naveen Jain

Heather Cabot, who runs the website www.thewellmom.com, was interviewed on the Today Show. She discussed various web apps that can help people keep their New Years resolutions.

• Mint.com: This website can help people keep their finances in order, which is especially important during these difficult economic times.
• Date Check by Intelius, which lets you “look up before you hook up” for any potential romantic partners.
• Daily Burn is a phone app you can use to help keep track of your caloric intake.

For more information, check out:
Mint.com founder Aaron Patzer is interviewed by ZDNet.

A biography of Naveen Jain, founder of Intelius.

The official blog of The Daily Burn.

The Tiger Woods fiasco has everyone buzzing about infidelity and wronged wives wielding golf clubs. Intelius, a Bellevue, Washington based company headed by former Microsoft executive Naveen Jain, has offered some advice to anyone who suspects their significant other isn’t walking the straight and narrow.

Intelius says that Elin Nordengren could have used technology to catch her husband in the act. Intelius offers five tips on catching A Cheatin’ Heart in the act. The site Hollywood Life published Intelius’ suggestions:

1. Google Latitude: This app can be downloaded on your Smartphone…and then you can “accidentally” leave the phone in your spouse’s car. It will keep track of the spouse’s general location as long as your Smartphone has GPS.
2. Intelius Reverse Directions: With this tool, you can plug in a cell phone number, and Intelius will find the address it is associated with. Or you can put in an email address, and Intelius will try to find a match. With its massive public information database, Intelius can legally tap into public records and find out where these strange emails and middle-of-the-night phone calls are coming from.
3. Slydial: Slydial allows you to dial a number’s voice mailbox without the person knowing. This way, you can avoid any confrontation while you’re getting an idea of a suspicious phone number on your straying lover’s cell phone.
4. Social Media: Another way to monitor your potential playboy/playgirl is check out their social media space on Facebook, Twitter, and MySpace. If some strange man or woman is always leaving comments on their profile, you may want to look into that.
5. Webcam: This should be only used as a last resort to document any cheating going on.

Article Source: Could Elin Nordegren Have Used Technology to Catch Hubby Tiger Woods in the Act? (Hollywood Life)

CNET spoke with former InfoSpace CEO Naveen Jain by phone after the company’s conference call, at the height of the dot-com stock mania in 1999. InfoSpace, then mainly a provider of content solutions for websites and portals, was showing high gross margins annually.

InfoSpace’s revenue stream had been focused on advertising, the heftiest part of which came from its consumer services. In the interview, Naveen Jain expressed his intention of diverting the company’s focus to transaction revenues. Much of it would be sourced from its fledgling merchant services, which it considered as its fastest growing outfit after wireless services.

During this time, Wall Street analysts were ecstatic about the company bringing the Internet to wireless and non-PC devices. For a time, InfoSpace was touted as “the new Microsoft.” In the article, Naveen Jain boasted of InfoSpace readying its brand of instant messaging.

Naveen Jain clarified in the article that he wasn’t trying to pit InfoSpace against established portals like Yahoo! He emphasized that InfoSpace was simply developing the technology and software and application services necessary for visitor retention on clients’ sites. All these, Jain said, was part of a growing “library of technology” the company was leveraging.

Typical services included giving clients personal homepages, Web-based e-mail, or as simple as calendars and address books. Back then, four heavily visited websites — AOL, Microsoft Network, Lycos, Netscape, Go Network — used InfoSpace technology.

Now InfoSpace has morphed into a provider of “metasearch” services to many American distribution partners. Basically InfoSpace builds new search technology, whose results it combines with those from Google, Yahoo!, and Ask.com, among other search engines. The services are marketed under the websites Dogpile, WebCrawler, MetaCrawler, and WebFetch.

Naveen Jain founded InfoSpace in March 1996 in Bellevue, Washington, where it has since been based. The company went public and debuted at Wall Street in December 1998. Today it maintains branches in the United Kingdom and India.

In its heyday, InfoSpace was among the biggest known Internet businesses, estimated to be worth over $31 billion. Investors ranged from retired Nebraskan real estate broker Bev Hess to Microsoft Corporation’s co-founder Paul Allen. To this day, InfoSpace is credited as one of the companies that benefited the most from the dot-com boom.

Naveen Jain was Chief Executive Officer of the company from 1996 until his resignation in 2002. From 1996 to 2002, he also served as the company’s Chairman of the Board. Jain was also InfoSpace’s Chief Strategy Officer from 2000 until 2001.

Years earlier, Jain carved a name for himself as senior executive at Microsoft Corporation, between 1989 and 1996. There, he was pivotal in launching The Microsoft Network, the company’s online service and was likewise responsible for marketing the company’s prototype of Windows NT.

After leaving InfoSpace, Naveen Jain and a group of IT executives came up with Intelius in January 2003. Ever since then, he has overseen the company in the capacity of President and Chief Executive Officer.

By exhaustively searching records in the public domain, Intelius furnishes clients, without endangering anyone’s privacy, with personal information of individuals. Intelius can be used to track down people and screen prospective employees with criminal backgrounds. It won the 2006 American Business Award for Best New Company.

Born in 1959 in Uttar Pradesh, India, Naveen graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology (Roorkee) with a degree in engineering in 1979. From the XLRI Jamshedpur School of Business and Human Resources, he later earned his master’s in Personnel Management and Industrial Relations. He immigrated to the US in 1982 through a business exchange program, after which he worked in New Jersey for one year.

Naveen Jain won the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year award in 2006 and the Albert Einstein Technology Medal. Red Herring proclaimed him as one of 1997’s top 20 entrepreneurs.

He is married to Anu Jain, a businesswoman. A former owner of the Seattle Sonics, Jain, at one point, was estimated to be worth $8 billion. He cited Bill Gates as a role model.
Related Articles or Websites about Naveen Jain:

• Read about Naveen Jain and his move from Microsoft to Infospace.

• Naveen Jain’s company Intelius was named in May 2006 as a finalist in the categories of Best New Company and Best New Product in the American Business Awards.

• Read about Naveen Jain and his experiences at InfoSpace.

Intelius Named Rising Star in Deloitte’s Technology Fast 500 Program

Company Earns Second Deloitte Honor in 2007 with Revenue of $55 Million Last Year

BELLEVUE, Wash. — November 6, 2007 — Intelius, Inc., a company that empowers consumers with online information for personal protection and intelligent decisions, has been named a Rising Star on Deloitte’s 2007 Technology Fast 500.

A special category, the Rising Star list ranks 20 companies that have been in business a minimum of three years, but less than five years. They are ranked based on percentage of fiscal year revenue growth over three years (2004 to 2006). Deloitte’s Technology Fast 500 is a ranking of the 500 fastest growing technology, media, telecommunications and life sciences companies in North America

Intelius, which has thrived on developing services that help inform their customers about the people, businesses and assets they deal with, recorded revenue of $55 million in 2006. In addition to receiving two honors from Deloitte in 2007, Intelius was also recognized this year with awards from Inc. magazine and the Puget Sound Business Journal.

“We are very proud of our accomplishments in an increasingly competitive industry and credit much of our success to executing an aggressive growth plan, developing key partnerships with major brands, as well as expanding our suite of useful and comprehensive personal safety and information services,” said Naveen Jain, CEO of Intelius. “This accolade is another demonstration of Intelius’ dedication to providing our customers with superior service and products that help them make knowledgeable decisions.”

The company, which celebrated its five millionth unique paying customer last month, offers a selection of innovative personal protection and information services like extensive consumer and enterprise background checks, identity theft watch programs and in- depth people searches.

“Deloitte’s Technology Fast 500 Rising Stars honors young companies that have gained early traction in today’s highly competitive technology marketplace based on percentage of revenue growth,” said Phil Asmundson, Vice Chairman, U.S. Technology, Media and Telecommunications, Deloitte & Touche USA LLP. “We applaud Intelius for being one of only 20 companies to achieve the Rising Star ranking in 2007.”

Rising Star Qualifications

To qualify as a Fast 500 Rising Star, entrants must have had 2004 operating revenues of at least $50,000 USD or $75,000 CD, for the United States and Canada, respectively, and 2006 operating revenues of at least $5 million USD or CD.

Entrants must be headquartered in North America, and own proprietary technology or proprietary intellectual property that contributes to a significant portion of the company’s operating revenues, or devote a significant proportion of revenues to the research and development of technology. Using other companies’ technology or intellectual property in a unique way does not qualify.

About Intelius
Intelius is the leading information commerce company providing consumers and businesses with information to empower the decision-making process for peace of mind and security. To date, Intelius has gained more than five million unique customers who use Intelius’ information to reconnect and protect their loved ones, businesses and assets. Intelius’ services include background checks, people search services, comprehensive employment screening services and an award-winning identity theft prevention product, IDWatch. Intelius is one of the top 100 most trafficked sites on the Internet, according to comScore/Media Metrix. Intelius was listed as an Inc. 500 company and was named one of Washington’s top three Best Workplaces by the Puget Sound Business Journal in 2007, and in 2006, Intelius was named the American Business Awards’ Best New Company, and was listed amongst the top 15 Corporate Philanthropists by Puget Sound Business Journal. For more about Intelius products and services, visit http://www.intelius.com/. For more about Intelius’ business, news and policies, visit http://www.intelius.com/corp.

About Deloitte
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Deloitte & Touche USA LLP is the US member firm of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu. In the US, services are provided by the subsidiaries of Deloitte & Touche USA LLP (Deloitte & Touche LLP, Deloitte Consulting LLP, Deloitte Financial Advisory Services LLP, Deloitte Tax LLP and their subsidiaries), and not by Deloitte & Touche USA LLP.

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For Additional Resources about Intelius and Naveen Jain:

Intelius CEO Naveen Jain was once the chairman of InfoSpace.com.

Articles about Naveen Jain, the Intelius CEO is featured on NaveenJain.biz.

CNET features a Q&A session with Intelius CEO, Naveen Jain.