PR NEWSWIRE – Aug 22 – Worthy, an online auction marketplace for pre-owned diamond jewelry, releases new Dating After Divorce study that focuses solely on women who have and who are going through the divorce. According to the study divorced women do not waste their time when it comes to dating again. 78% of the women are already thinking about dating before the divorce papers are signed. 65% of women are dating within the first year of being separated or divorced.
Month: August 2019
Bumble to Host Singles Party
Gleeden Survey: 77% Indian Women Cheat Due to Boredom
THE ECONOMIC TIMES – Aug 21 – According to a survey conducted by Gleeden, an extra-marital dating app for married people, 77% of Indian women cheat because they are bored by their monotonous married life. Since the Supreme Court of India abolished section 377 which criminalized same-sex extra-marital relationships, there was a +45% increase in same-sex encounters among married people. India's most unfaithful women live in the big metropolis: Bengaluru, Mumbai, and Kolkata are in the top 3.
Dating Apps and Brand Collaborations Should Be Fun for Users
This Is Your Life in Silicon Valley Podcast: The League Founder & CEO Amanda Bradford
TECH CRUNCH – Aug 20 – In this week’s edition of This is Your Life in Silicon Valley features Amanda Bradford, founder/CEO of The League. Amanda talks about modern dating, its limitations, its flaws, why ‘The League’ will win. She talks about her days at Salesforce and how it influenced her decision to build a dating tech product that focused on data, and funnels. She goes in on all of the popular dating sites, including Bumble and others, providing her take on what’s wrong with them.
Ireland’s Biggest Singles Festival Is Returning Soon
JOE.IE – Aug 20 – The Lisdoonvarna Matchmaking Festival starts on Aug 30th and will run for five weeks until 29 September. Thousands of singletons flock to the festival in the small western town of Lisdoonvarna, in the hope of finding love. The festival is jam packed with music and events in plenty of venues.
Fake Dating Site Victims to Share €9M Compensation
DUTCHNEWS.NL – Aug 20 – Some 37K people who lost money on fake dating sites will share €9M in compensation agreed by the company behind the sites. The sites operated by The Right Link allowed users to exchange messages with potential dates, costing between 60c and €1 a time. But many of the people posing as dates worked for the company and had been told to keep people in conversation for as long as possible. Some users lost thousands of euros through the scam. The ACM raided the company's premises last year and a number of sites including flirten.nl were taken down.
App Developers Tell Apple CEO That iOS 13 Location Tracking Changes Are Anti-competitive
PHONEDOG – Aug 20 – There are lots of changes coming with iOS 13, including some tweaks to location tracking. Some developers, including dating app Happn, aren't happy with the location tracking changes, and they've let Apple CEO Tim Cook know about it. They have written to him to complain that the "Always Allow" option is no longer available in iOS 13's location pop-up. In iOS 13, users' options for giving their location to an app include "Allow While Using App", "Allow Once", and "Don't Allow". In iOS 12 and earlier, there was an "Always Allow" option, but the update to iOS 13 moves that to the Privacy section of the Settings app. The devs also say that the change is anti-competitive because Apple's own apps don't need to get permission to access the user's location, pointing to the Find My device tracker app as an example. An Apple spokesperson said that the changes are meant to help protect the user and their privacy.
Swoovy Sets Users up on Volunteer Dates
CULTUREMAP AUSTIN – Aug 20 – Dating app Swoovy, co-founded by Brooke Waupsh and Jeff McMahon in 2018, officially launched in Austin earlier this summer. Its mission is to turn dates into volunteer opportunities. Like Tinder or Bumble, Swoovy matches users who mutually swipe on each other. After matching, the couple can choose a volunteer event with a local nonprofit. Currently, Swoovy has more than a dozen Austin nonprofit partners, ranging from Mobile Loaves & Fishes and Art on the Streets to Meals on Wheels and Habitat for Humanity, and the company says its actively recruiting for more philanthropic organizations to join.