Hey Tagged, Badoo Has Been Around As Long And Has Bigger Revenues

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Thursday, January 19th, 2012
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As a social network aimed at helping you meet new people – don’t mention the phrase ‘hooking up’ – Tagged’s vice president of sales and marketing Steve Sarner claims other companies are only now catching onto ‘social discovery’ and the site is “by far the largest” in the social discovery space. Ex-squeeze me?

I’m afraid we’ll have to balance this, and perhaps educate Mr Sarner a little, in case he hasn’t heard of a little site called Badoo.