ABACUS NEWS – Feb 28 – Chinese dating app Zhenai is allowing its users to have blind dates through video streams. These dates happen live, in public and for everyone to watch and comment. Similar to Tinder, Zhenai allows swiping through profiles – except, in this case, getting a match leads to a direct voice call with the person.
by Masha Borak
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SCREEN DAILY – Feb 28 – Last year, Bumble put up £100K to fund short films from five filmmaking teams from the UK and Ireland – the completed films were screened at an industry event in London earlier this year and are now being submitted to screen at festivals. For the second edition the project will also take submissions from both France and Germany. The applications process is now open and will run until March 20, with 10 chosen teams to be invited to pitch to the judging panel in June this year. Final five teams will then be expected to deliver completed films by January 2020. The company is accepting applications from anyone who identifies as a woman.
by Tom Grater
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XINHUA – Feb 28 – On stage, girls wearing masks take turns introducing themselves, and men, sitting behind two lines of desks, express their interest by turning on a light on their desk. This is a dating event held at a matchmaking service center in south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. Since opening in 2015, the center and its founder Pang Yufang have seen 2k people find love. In Pang's service center, ~40K people have signed up, and ~300 volunteers work to examine and sift through the documents. Volunteers at the center are mostly retirees like Pang, who are keen to help young people find love.
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DAILY TARGUM – Feb 28 – Helen Fisher, a research associate and chief scientific advisor for Match.com, broke down her findings regarding love, relationships and the chemical processes that cause these functions. An expert on love, Fisher has conducted an annual study on 30K singles in the US with Match.com for the past nine years. She said love is a bodily function. "It's a drive. In fact, when my colleagues and I put people into the brain scanner and found basic brain circuitry for romantic love, we found activity in a tiny factory in the base of the brain called the ventral tegmental area that pumps out dopamine," Fisher said. "It lies near brain regions that regulate thirst and hunger." Fisher divided love into three distinct systems for mating and reproduction: sex drive, feelings of romantic love and feelings of intense attachment. Physical appearance is like a prescreening toward love, she said. A person's looks are the first thing that other people evaluate, whether they are seen in a bar, subway, church or even on Tinder. The issue with online dating is that people stay on the sites for too long. An alternative to this problem is to redefine dating sites as "introducing sites."
by Christian Balbuena
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CITYAM – Feb 28 – Dating app The Inner Circle has found that in London, finance professionals made up the most right-swiped men and women on the app. The second most popular professions for men were in the computer and tech industry. For women the second best profession was the in healthcare. The Inner Circle analyzed 5K members in cities like London, New York, Amsterdam, Paris, LA, Toronto and Sydney.
by Alyana Vera
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FORTUNE – Feb 27 – In recognition of National Day of Unplugging on March 1, the app is encouraging users to put away their phone and meet potential partners the old-fashioned way: at a bar. Beginning on Thursday, users will have the choice to opt into Friday's "holiday" and turn off the app's Discover section (where users can find and "like" potential matches) for 24 hours. Those in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Miami will then receive an invite for two free drinks and phone-free mingling at local Freehand Hotels' Broken Shaker bars.
by Renae Reints
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PR NEWSWIRE – In response to a request by Craigslist, Cragly recently changed its name to "Pernals." The new name "Pernals" is derived from the word "Personals," which indicates that the app is a personals app. The app was primarily created to help people who like personals-ad-style websites and apps.
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by Sindhu Hariharan
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NYULOCAL – Feb 27 – Dating app Bounce is only live sometimes. When the app "goes live," that means users have 15 minutes to swipe on someone. They only get 60 seconds per profile, and if they match, that means that this person is their One True Match. It also means that they're going on a date with them at 9PM, the same day. The app chooses the bar.
by Sophie Bramnick
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by Amanda Scriver
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