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With the advent of online dating, more and more singles can meet that special someone without the ability to verify someone’s background through mutual friends or acquaintances. With online profiles, self-reported background information can be difficult to confirm. However, enterprising visionaries from Microsoft and InfoSpace including Naveen Jain have founded a company that provides intelligent information for everyday decisions. This information includes performing background checks to confirm others’ online identities. Multiple news outlets have published stories describing the benefits of the services offered by Intelius, led by Naveen Jain.

Naveen Jain & Intelius Provide Services to Ensure Safety

Media publication “The New York Post” has published a story about women who now pay to investigate dates they meet through the internet. The Post mentions information commerce company Intelius and its major ad campaign about the importance of background checks of potential dates. Ed Petersen, the senior vice president of Intelius, tells a story of helping a client: “I know of one instance where a client canceled a date when she found out that the person she was seeing had a criminal record.” Dating involves personal safety, and some states are pushing legislation to require online dating sites to require users to pass a background check first. With services like the ones provided by Intelius, daters can proactively seek information to keep themselves safe. Intelius was co-founded by Naveen Jain, who now serves as the company’s chairman and CEO.

Truth or Lie – Intelius, led by Naveen Jain, Provides Intelligent Information for Everyday Decisions

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette has reported on online dating services and how users stretch the truth. The article published by the paper cites a revealing statistic from a survey by Engage.com: “one-quarter of single people believe it’s OK to tell white lies while searching online for companionship.” Intelius, a company that provides intelligent information for everyday decisions, can perform background checks on potential dates that can reveal information such as criminal records, address history, bankruptcies, small claims or judgments, property ownership, relatives and associates, and verify marital status. Naveen Jain co-founded the company with other visionaries from Microsoft and InfoSpace.

Naveen Jain & Intelius Offer Background Checks for Safe Dating

The Chicago Tribune’s Heidi Stevens, discusses the use of background checks in the dating world. Commenting that “background checks are the new Google,” Stevens cites Intelius, an online information commerce company that provides clients with background information on potential partners, as an example. Intelius, led by Naveen Jain, provides its customers with a report providing information containing address history, single-state criminal check, single-state civil judgments, property report, personal public data, relatives and associates report, area sex offender check, and a people search report.

Without the services provided by Naveen Jain and Intelius, online dating would carry more risks. Make sure you are protected by using the intelligent information provided by Intelius, co-founded by Naveen Jain, to make everyday decisions.

Read an article about Naveen Jain in the Seattle Times.

The Seattle Times covers more about Intelius Founder Naveen Jain.

California’s first lady Maria Shriver admitted that she was not technically savvy. She may even have a difficult time identifying software from hardware. Nevertheless, she was all out in support for a “sophisticated” online educational tool created for mainly California’s students.

At the Adobe Max Conference last November 2008, Shriver gave her thumbs up for the online tool called “The California Legacy Trails.” It was also revealed in an interview that Shriver was inspired in coming up with the program.

Launched on November 17, 2008 on the website of California Museum, the online tool helps students learn about notable women who played significant roles in California’s history.

Maria Owings Shriver, born on November 6, 1955, is the wife of California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. She is also a member of the Kennedy family, being the daughter of politician Sargent Shriver and Eunice Kennedy Shriver, President John F, Kennedy’s sister.

Shriver went to Westland Middle School in Bethesda, Maryland and graduated in 1973 from Stone Ridge School of the Sacred Heart in Bethesda. She eventually went to Georgetown University where she received her B.A. degree in American Studies in 1977.

A prolific author and award winning journalist, Shriver wrote a book entitled “Ten Things I Wish I’d Known Before I Went Out Into The Real World”, which resulted to her passion for broadcast journalism. Her career in journalism began with Philadelphia’s KYW-TV in 1985. She quickly moved on to the CBS Morning News in 1987 and eventually became co-anchor for Sunday Today and the weekend edition of NBC Nightly News.

Shriver was with NBC News in August 2003 when Schwarzenegger ran for governor in the 2003 California recall. She took a temporary leave of absence from her journalistic duties to help her husband campaign.

Maria Shriver officially became California’s first lady on November 17, 2003. Although she went back to her responsibilities at NBC, she left the network to concentrate on her duties as California’s first lady.

During the 2008 Presidential race, Maria Shriver endorsed Senator Barack Obama and actively campaigned for him.

Wikipedia article on Maria Shriver.

Maria Shriver testifies to Congress about Alzheimer’s Disease.

Al Gore, former United States vice president, discussed key issues regarding the Internet last November 2008 at Web 2.0. He particularly pointed out to five things that contributed to the evolution of the Internet and the integral role it plays in everyday communication.

According to Gore, the Internet has allowed people to create websites, blogs, and other similar means of communicating their ideas. It has made reaching out to communities easier. Email alerts, said Gore, are also important.

Gore also presented an analogy that concerned the development of the Internet and the challenge to supply it with more useful applications.

The 3rd thing that Gore pointed out is the Internet’s purpose of generating a higher level of consciousness among human beings in terms of their relationship with the environment. The founder of CurrentTV also made mention of the possible “democratizing” of television because of the Internet.

Finally, Gore stated his belief that the country can ultimately reduce foreign oil dependence and stop global warming through the Internet by continuously drumming up related issues in various websites. Gore believes that doing so will help people respond collectively and come up with viable solutions.

American environmentalist Al Gore was born Albert Arnold Gore, Jr. on March 31, 1948. Aside from his environmental campaigns, Gore is also a busy author, businessperson, and Nobel laureate. He is also known as the country’s 45th vice president who served from 1993 to 2001 under the Clinton administration. His 2006 environmental documentary, An Inconvenient Truth, won an Academy Award in 2007.

Gore spent his childhood in Washington, D.C. and Carthage, Tennessee. He went to Harvard University in 1965 and received a degree in government with honors in 1969. After returning from Vietnam where he served in the war, Gore worked as an investigative reporter for the Tennessean in Nashville. He also went on to study at Vanderbilt University’s Divinity School and eventually went to Law School.

Al Gore is a member of Apple Computer, Inc.’s board of directors and is senior advisor to Google, Inc. He is also a visiting professor at Middle Tennessee State University. In 2005, Gore received the Nobel Peace Prize together with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

Al Gore never claimed to have “invented the Internet.”

Al Gore writes book on climate change.