Month: November 2013

STD App Hula Partners With Dating Apps

Posted on November 27, 2013

Mister app screenshotSCIENTIFIC AMERICAN – Nov 21 - Hula app stores sexually transmitted disease test results in one place and, if users like, can discretely notify sex partners of their health status. The app makes people more aware of the need to be tested for STDs and to share the outcome with sexual partners. Hula is also hoping that it can help to reduce the risk of sex with people who met through the location-based dating apps. Hula has partnered with a gay dating app Mister. Mister is encouraging users to find local testing centers, and making their test results available to online “friends" via Hula.

by Dina Fine Maron
The full article was originally published at Scientific American, but is no longer available.

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Tinder Mobile Dating App Is Addictive

Posted on November 27, 2013

ABC7 – Nov 25 – Danielle Gray didn't meet her boyfriend Ray at a bar or through mutual friends, but on her phone via Tinder. LA native and USC grad Justin Mateen co-founded Tinder just 14 months ago. Tinder facilitates 4M new matches every day and its user base is growing 15 – 20% every week.

by Elex Michaelson
The full article was originally published at ABC7, but is no longer available.

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Posted on November 26, 2013

Cupid Named New CEO

Posted on November 25, 2013

Cupid phil griptonTELEGRAPH.CO.UK – Nov 25 – Bill Dobbie, Cupid's CEO, is stepping down after a difficult year that has seen the share price collapse following an investigation into its practices. He will be replaced by Phil Gripton. Mr Dobbie, who retains a 21% stake in the company, will remain on the board as a non-executive director. Phil Gripton was previously the managing director of dating services. The company’s shares traded as highly as 200p at the start of this year; they have since fallen to 57.1p.

by John Ficenec
See full article at Telegraph.co.uk

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View N Me: New Video Chat Speed Dating

Posted on November 25, 2013

Viewnme logoNY POST – Nov 23 – View N Me, a month-old dating site, uses live video chats to make fudging the appearance impossible. “There’s a level of deception that is associated with user profiles,” says View N Me co-founder Eric Friedman. Friedman and co-founder Lindsey Lachlan, both 29, launched View N Me after experiencing frustrating first dates.

by Lindsay Putnam
See full article at NY Post

Relationship Redefined By Technology

Posted on November 25, 2013

Online dating 12MERCURY NEWS – Nov 23 – ~25% of online daters met a spouse or long-term partner through a dating site. Another study finds couples who meet online are twice as likely to get married than couples who met offline. All this connectivity can come with a cost. We're stumbling at staying focused on the people who are physically closest to us. One British divorce lawyers' website claimed in 2011 that Facebook played a role in a third of all divorces.

by Julia Prodis Sulek
See full article at San Jose Mercury News

Tinder Catches On In UK, Brazil And Dubai

Posted on November 25, 2013

Tinder logoFORBES – Nov 22 – Brazil and the UK, have each added ~1M users in the last two months. Both are growing ~2% per day (20K users). Tinder also sees solid adoption in Dubai and Turkey, along with minor traffic from Egypt, Morocco and South Africa. In total, the company says users match with each other 4M times each day, and swipe 350M times. The 18-24 demographic is still by far the company’s largest, with 54% of users. Another 31.6% are between 25 and 34. 

by J.J. Colao
See full article at Forbes

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Match.com Faces $1.5 Billion Lawsuit

Posted on November 25, 2013

Lawsuit newNY DAILY NEWS – Nov 23 – Yuliana Avalos, is a part-time model who never joined Match.com, but says her pictures have been used in ~200 fake profiles. The phony profiles are often created by scammers in other countries. The suit says that Match.com looks the other way, because it can tell the bogus profiles are being posted with IP addresses in foreign countries. But the company also creates its own bogus profiles, the federal suit says. Match.com has been sued over bogus profiles before, but the suits were tossed because the terms of users agreement doesn’t require it to “police” profiles.

by Dareh Gregorian
See full article at NY Daily News

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Jiayuan: Startup Story Video

Posted on November 25, 2013

Jiayuan gongBBC.CO.UK – Nov 22 – Rose Gong is China's number one matchmaker. After being disappointed by her own online search for love in 2003, she started Jiayuan. The site now employs hundreds of people and is listed on the Nasdaq stock exchange. Ms Gong has now launched another business, 91Waijiao, which aims to connect English language teachers through the internet to students in China.

See full article at BBC

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Tinder 3.0 With Improved Algorithm And New Features

Posted on November 25, 2013

Tinder screenshot3TECH CRUNCH – Nov 22 - Tinder has launched its 3.0 version with a revamp of its relevancy algorithm and add some key new features including a Tinder “lists”. The “lists” feature allows popular users to sort their scads of matches into lists, like “New York friends,” “LA friends,”"Friends who like the color blue,” etc.

by Alexia Tsotsis
See full article at Tech Crunch

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