SCOOP.CO.NZ – Mar 5 – Watching friends walk through the rigmarole of online dating, Date Check founder Cheney McGlynn saw the need for a service that background checked potential online partners before getting romantically involved. Date Check provides clients with a full report in as little as 24h. The report costs $99 (for 3-5 days turnaround) or $149 (ready in 24h).
Month: March 2019
Courtland Brooks Book-of-the-Month – Talk To Me
COURTLAND BROOKS – Mar 5 – The March book-of-the-month is 'Talk To Me: How Voice Computing Will Transform the Way We Live, Work, and Think.' The book is out 26th March. I think we have to keep our eye on big media transitions. Voice is huge for search. Which means it should be huge for the way we enable people to search for singles. This book will walk you through the concepts around Conversational AI and what Google, Amazon and Apple are working on. Essential reading IMHO.
This post also appears on Courtland Brooks blog
Should Brands Be Paying More Attention to Dating Apps?
Tech-matrimony Crossover: Banihal Uses AI to Find Users the Perfect Match
ECONOMIC TIMES – Mar 4 – Ishdeep Sawhney, Co-Founder and CEO of matrimonial dating site Banihal.com, describes the AI engine for matchmaking and how it can now predict matches from data.
Q: Why did you choose to implement AI for matchmaking?
A: AI is a technology that can closely resemble human decision making. Banihal has developed Rae, which is the AI engine for matchmaking and it can now predict matches from data so that 90% of most compatible matches connect with each other.
Q: How does AI work for the matchmaking process?
A: AI in matchmaking is similar to the decision making of an individual when they meet a potential partner in real life. The AI system is doing the same process with all the thousands of potential matches at the same time in less than 1 second. There are two main areas where AI is being used at Banihal. 1. Finding the best potential matches. 2. Learning about an individuals’ preferences from their actions on Banihal.
Q: What is your competitive advantage?
A: Banihal is the only pure AI matchmaking system. A user completes a profile with facts about themselves and no information about the match they are looking for. There is no search on Banihal. All introductions on Banihal are made by the AI system Rae.
Dating Apps and Netflix Responsible for Fall in 24-hour Alcohol Licences
Relationship A.I. Seeks Seed Funding
OPW – Mar 4 – Relationship A.I. is a subscription app which helps improve the way daters make relationship decisions. Relationship A.I. helps dating app users track and process their love life from the first message through to a long-term relationship and compliments dating app platforms. They're in an active seed round. Contact info@relationship-ai.com.
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Match Group Falls 4% After Analyst Says Tinder Growth to Slow ‘Substantially’
WILCOXGUARDIAN – Mar 2 – After recommending for years, Deutsche Bank has finally decided to "swipe left" on the online dating platform, downgrading the stock to a hold rating. Analyst Kunal Madhukar told clients that he projects a significant slowdown in subscriber growth in Match's dating app Tinder over the next 12 months. Pricing could also prove problematic for Match, the analyst said, since the majority of the current subscribers live outside of the U.S.
by Jen Stanley
The full article was originally published at Wilcox Guardian, but is no longer available.
Bumble’s Founder Is on a Mission to Clean Up the Internet
INC – Mar 2 – A bill was introduced Thursday in the Texas House of Representatives that would make sending an unsolicited nude or sexual photograph a misdemeanor punishable with a fine up to $500. Whitney Wolfe Herd, the founder of Bumble, put the spotlight on so-called cyberflashing. "Right now the Internet is the Wild Wild West. It's ridiculous that there is no accountability online for things you are not allowed to do in the real world," said Wolfe Herd. "We are trying to make a law for indecent exposure, but for the digital realm." A few months ago Wolfe Herd hired a lobbyist to help seed the idea. On Thursday Texas Rep. Morgan Meyer, a Republican from Dallas, took up the issue and introduced a bill that would add to the state penal code an offense "of unlawful electronic transmission of sexually explicit visual material." As written and if passed, the bill would take effect September 1, 2019.
Amanda Bradford: Advice She Wished She’d Taken in Her 20s
FAST COMPANY – Feb 19 – We spoke to successful women about their own regrets in their 20s. Here's advice from Amanda Bradford, CEO of The League. "GO TRAVEL AND EXPERIENCE THE WORLD." In her 20s Amanda was busy. By the time she reached 29 in 2014, she was building her now uber-successful dating app to a 1.5M person waitlist across 60 cities. Now 34, Bradford is happy with her success but she wishes she would have taken the advice of her former boss at Google who urged her to go see the world. "For me, global work experience and travel are key contributors to business and personal fulfillment. I wish I had invested more in global exposure during my 20s," she says. Now it's just too hard. I'm devoted to The League as the app expands into international cities. It would be helpful to have firsthand knowledge of each market and a network of people on the ground.
Bumble Launches Making Moves in Music Initiative
