Bumble is continuing to go on the offensive against Match Group. Earlier this week, the dating app maker said it was serving Match Group with papers (which Match Group said at the time it hadn’t yet received – but it has now). Bumble is taking Match Group to court for fraudulently obtaining trade secrets during […]
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Tinder’s ‘Swipe the Vote’ campaign aims to educate young voters and get them to polls
Tinder has partnered with nonprofit Rock the Vote for a second time, in the hopes of driving young people to the polls through in-app messaging. The company claims a young adult user base where more than half are in the 18 to 24 demographic, and believes it’s well-positioned to mobilize younger voters during the 2018 […]
View More Tinder’s ‘Swipe the Vote’ campaign aims to educate young voters and get them to pollsTinder in India launches ‘My Move,’ a Bumble-like feature where women chat first
Tinder in India is now rolling out a new feature that allows women to make the first move. The setting, called “My Move,” is similar to the core feature in rival dating app Bumble, which is currently enmeshed in multiple lawsuits with Tinder parent Match Group. Match sued Bumble for patent violations following failed acquisition […]
View More Tinder in India launches ‘My Move,’ a Bumble-like feature where women chat firstBumble serves countersuit to Match Group, says it’s pursuing an IPO
Bumble is officially serving the papers in the suit against Tinder parent, Match Group. Bumble had said in March it was filing a suit of $400 million against Match Group for fraudulently obtaining trade secrets, following Match’s suit filed only weeks before, which had claimed patent infringement and misuse of intellectual property. Match’s original lawsuit […]
View More Bumble serves countersuit to Match Group, says it’s pursuing an IPOHow to write a dating app bio that’s actually good
Here’s the thing about dating app bios: Most of them are incredibly bad. Most dating app bios are too long and too boring, especially for something people might not even be reading.
A lot of users, particularly on swipe apps like Tinder and Bum…
I watched HBO’s Tinder-shaming doc ‘Swiped’ so you don’t have to
Have you ever wanted to see one of your “hate-reads” stretched out to feature-film length? If so, you’ll want to watch HBO’s new documentary, “Swiped,” which takes a depressing, trigger-inducing and damning look at online dating culture, and specifically Tinder’s outsized influence in the dating app business. The film evolved from journalist Nancy Jo Sales’ […]
View More I watched HBO’s Tinder-shaming doc ‘Swiped’ so you don’t have toTinder launches its curated ‘Top Picks’ feature worldwide
Earlier this summer, Tinder began testing a new feature that surfaces a curated list of your best potential matches, called “Top Picks.” The feature, which is only available to paying subscribers on Tinder Gold, is now available worldwide, Tinder says. Top Picks had also quietly launched in the U.S. and U.K. last week following initial […]
View More Tinder launches its curated ‘Top Picks’ feature worldwideTinder launches Tinder U for the college kids
There’s a new Tinder in town. It’s a feature called Tinder U, made specifically for users of the dating app who are in college. And the company is rolling it out just in time for the start of the new school year.
To set up Tinder U on an account, use…
Tinder’s latest feature, Tinder U, is only for college students
Tinder is today rolling out what may be one of its smartest additions yet with the launch of Tinder U, a feature designed specifically for Tinder users in college. Once enabled, students with a .edu email address will be able to register with their school, then swipe on students who also attend their school or […]
View More Tinder’s latest feature, Tinder U, is only for college studentsAngela from ‘The Office’ called out her nephew for his Tinder photo
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Angela is so over this.
James, 25, is a salesman at Toyota. He is a “life long musician” and can “get along with just about anyone.” He’s a former firefighter, but you can still call him a fireman because he’s still got the ability to “turn the hoes on.”
Oh, and Angela from The Office is his aunt.
James’ Tinder profile features a brightly lit selfie with the one and only Angela Kinsey, who played the perpetually unamused Angela Martin. James had been using it to get those sweet right swipes — and then Kinsey called out her nephew in an Instagram story: “Nephews … Do not put me in your @tinder profile photos. K. Thx. Byeeeee.” Read more…
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View More Angela from ‘The Office’ called out her nephew for his Tinder photoThe accidental Super Like: Tinder’s most awkward phenomenon
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People have a lot of opinions about Tinder’s Super Like function. For some people, receiving one feels like a compliment. For others, a Super Like feels excessive, even creepy — the dating app version of making eye contact for too long.
But there is one thing we can all agree on. It is way too easy to Super Like someone accidentally, and thus way too easy to plunge yourself into an uncomfortable Tinder situation.
As if dating apps needed any more of those.
There are a number of different ways that an accidental Super Like can occur. Users who swipe through people quickly, for example, are more likely to unintentionally swipe up — a Super Like — while trying to swipe right or left. (If they intended to swipe left, then god help them.) If you use the buttons on the bottom of the screen instead of swiping, your chances of messing up are even worse. The Super Like button is right next to the “no” button! Read more…
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Sean Rad, early Tinder employees, sue Tinder owners IAC/Match for billions
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They call it selling out for a reason.
On Tuesday, ten Tinder co-founders and early employees filed a lawsuit against the dating app’s overlords, InterActiveCorp (IAC) and Match Group. The plaintiffs, who include co-founders Sean Rad, Justin Mateen, and Jonathan Badeen, allege that the corporate owners deliberately sought to manipulate the valuation of Tinder, in order to lower the pay-out price for these early employees’ stock options, and that it restructured Tinder within Match to deny them future pay-outs.
Gibson Dunn is representing the ten plaintiffs.
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