Month: March 2016
Brits Spent £5B For Dating In 2015
METRO.CO.UK – Mar 27 – New research by the Centre for Economics and Business Research shows that Brits spent ~£5B looking for romance in 2015 – a whole £1B more than they did in 2014. And according to Match.com, the average cost for a date, between two people, is £127. A date in the Netherlands costs £49, while that figure is £40 in Germany.
by Dave Burke
See full article at Metro.co.uk
Match Group Shares Worth $1.7M Acquired By Morgan Stanley
by Jennifer Langley
The full article was originally published at Financial Market News, but is no longer available.
This post also appears on InternetDatingInvestments.
Date Review App Stroovy Officially Launches In The App Store
PR.COM – Mar 26 – Stroovy is not a dating app. It is a third-party review app to help online daters make more informed choices. Stroovy users will be able to write reviews about people that they have dated, read reviews about potential dates, communicate with other Stroovy users, use facial recognition functionality to link a dater's profiles together if they are on multiple dating sites, comment on reviews and compare dates' profiles to what others have said about them.
79% Of Bumble Is Owned By Badoo
by Steve O'Hear
See full article at Tech Crunch
Students Build Bae, An App For Black Singles
TECH CRUNCH – Mar 25 – Bae (Before Anyone Else) is a mobile dating app for Black people created by three students – Jordan Kunzika, Brian Gerrard and Justin Gerrard. They hosted an HBCU (Historically Black Colleges and Universities) tour which consisted of parties and mixers where people who matched on Bae could meet in person. Within a few weeks of their April 2015 launch, they reached 17K downloads, and have grown over ten times since. Similar to other dating apps, Bae users swipe right for those they're interested in and left for those they're not. According to the founders what makes Bae different is their algorithm to offer better matches.
Badoo Launches Photo Verification
Dating App Clover’s New “Mixers” Are Like 90s Chat Rooms
BUSTLE.COM – Mar 25 – Dating app Clover just launched "Mixers," which resemble chatrooms in the 90s. The "Mixers" function lets singles create and join forums dedicated to different topics.
New Dating App Dine Wants People To Go On First Date Quickly
BUSINESS INSIDER – Mar 24 – Tokyo-based Mrk & Co has recently launched a new dating app in the US and Canada called "Dine." The goal of Dine is to get users offline as quickly as possible. After filling out a profile, members pick three restaurants where they'd want to go on a date. Dine then shows them 2-5 people per day to invite on a date.