Whatever you do, do not call Bumble a hookup app.
The dating app appears to be doubling down on branding itself as a destination for finding “empowered and lasting connections,” rather than “hookups.”
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Bumble drops Facebook login requirement
The week after Mark Zuckerberg testified in front of Congress, Bumble is announcing it will no longer require that users have a Facebook account to log in. The popular women-first dating app is set to institute the change to its registration process tomorrow. Facebook has long been a prerequisite for signing up for the service, […]
View More Bumble drops Facebook login requirementBumble launches Facebook-free login
The #DeleteFacebook movement will no longer put an undue damper on your love life.
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Bumble told Wired on Monday that it would allow users to create a profile using on…
Bumble is suing Match Group for $400M for fraudulently obtaining trade secrets
Two weeks ago Match Group (Tinder’s parent company) sued Bumble for patent infringement and misuse of intellectual property. Bumble has now returned the favor by filing a separate lawsuit accusing Match of multiple improprieties in regards to interactions between the two companies over the past few months. To be clear, this lawsuit isn’t a response to […]
View More Bumble is suing Match Group for $400M for fraudulently obtaining trade secretsBumble counters Tinder’s parent company lawsuit on patent infringement
Bumble has filed a counter lawsuit against Tinder’s parent company Match Group.
The move comes in response to Match Group’s lawsuit accusing Bumble of patent infringement, specifically with swipe-based matching (see patent) and undoing a “left”…
I’d love to delete Facebook, but I don’t want to give up my Tinder matches
Deleting Facebook wasn’t something I’d ever given much thought to. Until this week.
Since news broke about Cambridge Analytica’s “hijacking” of 50 million Facebook users’ data in a bid to influence the U.S. election, deleting Facebook is all I …
Bumble responds to Match’s patent lawsuit
Yesterday we reported that Match, the parent company of Tinder, was suing Bumble for patent infringement and misuse of intellectual property. Specifically, Match alleged that Bumble “copied Tinder’s world-changing, card-swipe-based, mutual opt-in premise” for which a patent was filed in 2013 (before Bumble was founded) but just granted a few months ago. Today Bumble has responded to […]
View More Bumble responds to Match’s patent lawsuitBumble buys full-page ad to call out Match Group’s ‘scare tactics’
Consider yourselves blocked. That’s the message dating app Bumble has for its competitor Match Group after the latter filed a patent infringement lawsuit on Friday.
Bumble, founded and led by former Tinder executive Whitney Wolfe Herd, took out…
Tinder’s owner couldn’t buy Bumble, so now the company is suing instead
Pop quiz time! Who owns Tinder, OkCupid, Match.com, and Plenty of Fish? If you said Match Group, Inc., you’re correct and you should treat yourself to a cookie.
After failing to buy Tinder/OkCupid/Match/PoF competitor Bumble last year for a reported …
Tinder owner Match is suing Bumble over patents
Drama is heating up between the dating apps. Tinder, which is owned by Match Group, is suing rival Bumble, alleging patent infringement and misuse of intellectual property. The suit alleges that Bumble “copied Tinder’s world-changing, card-swipe-based, mutual opt-in premise.” It’s complicated because Bumble was founded by CEO Whitney Wolfe, who was also a co-founder at Tinder. […]
View More Tinder owner Match is suing Bumble over patentsTinder really doesn’t like commenting on Bumble’s gun photo ban
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Tinder would like its online dating community to know that gun photos are still allowed in profile photos — as long as they’re not depicted in a threatening or violent way.
This clarification on Tinder’s gun photo policy comes just one day after its chief competitor Bumble made a declaration to ban guns from user profile photos. Bumble explained the new policy to users through an in-app notification, blog post, and conversations with media outlets including Mashable.
Bumble says to ensure this new policy is followed, a team of 5,000 contractors will be actively moderating Bumble users’ profiles. There are exceptions for people in the military or in law enforcement if they are holding weapons while in uniforms as well as competitive sports shooters. Read more…
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Bumble is swiping right on the L.A. Clippers.
The National Basketball Association team, owned by former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, has signed a multi-year deal with the dating app that includes having Bumble’s logo in the corner of Clippers’ unifor…