Month: April 2016
Tinder Awards Scholarship To Woman Punished By Her Sorority For Using the App
NYMAG – Apr 20 – Shannon Workman, a junior at the University of Nebraska Omaha and a former member of the Chi Omega sorority, posted a photo of herself wearing a shirt with Chi Omega lettering on her Tinder profile. Administrators accused her of violating a "human dignity" rule, and began to move forward with membership revocation. Tinder CEO and co-founder Sean Rad offered Workman a full year's scholarship and a paid internship at Tinder's offices in California upon learning the news.
Mazama Capital Management Invests $2.1M In Match Group
THE VISTA VOICE – Apr 19 – Mazama Capital Management bought 157K shares of Match Group, valued at ~$2.1M. Mazama Capital Management owned 0.06% of Match Group as of its most recent filing with the SEC. RS Investment Management Co. LLC acquired shares valued at $16M, Schroder Investment Management Group bought $15.6M worth of shares; Jennison Associates – $14M; BlackRock Advisors LLC $12M. Manning & Napier Advisors – $10M.
The full article was originally published at Vista Voice, but is no longer available.
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eHarmony Is Looking For A New Marketing Director For Australia
ADNEWS.COM.AU – Apr 19 – The marketing director will lead all marketing efforts in Australia across offline, online acquisition, brand, creative and CRM. eHarmony's current senior marketing manager, Lynsey Tomkinson, is moving back to the UK.
by Pippa Chambers
See full article at AdNews.com.au
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IAC Just Locked Down TrumpPeopleMeet.com URL
TECH INSIDER – Apr 18 – TrumpPeopleMeet.com is a URL owned by People Media, a subsidiary of IAC. The Trump supporter-focused dating site has yet to launch. Indeed, IAC says it will never launch. "We absolutely have no intention of launching TrumpPeopleMeet.com," said IAC's representative. Rather, it's an instance of a conglomerate protecting its branding.
Online Fraud Is A Big And Sophisticated Industry
MARIECLAIRE.CO.UK – Apr 18 – UK people lost £60M in relationship scams last year. Scamalytics, the company with a large anti-fraud database, says it now spots 60K 'romance scams' taking place in the UK every week. "The most common fraud is when people are asked to transfer money via Western Union or Moneygram", said Dan Winchester, founder of Scamalytics. Online fraud is a big and sophisticated industry. People might think they are messaging a person, when they're actually messaging a bot.
DragonFruit: A New Nerdy Dating App
OPW – Apr 18 – DragonFruit, a new dating app for geeks, has launched this week. It asks users to pick what kind of "nerdy" things they like or are fans of. The options are: Star Wars, Dr. Who, etc.
Bumble: A Safe Dating App For Women
TELEGRAPH.CO.UK – Apr 16 – Since its launch at the end of 2014, Bumble has attracted 3.5M users – and is currently getting 25K new users a day. "I wanted to start a network that encouraged positive online behaviour versus bullying", says Whitney Wolfe, Bumble founder. On Bumble, a man can only message a woman a finite number of times before the app raises a red flag, asking her whether she's being harassed. The dating app has now introduced a new feature: Bumble BFF (best friends forever). This allows users to pinpoint prospective friends in their local area and meet up.
Match.com Forced To Apologize For Any Offence Its Ad Caused
POZ – New Dating App For People Living With HIV
