INDO ASIAN NEWS SERVICE – Sep 15 – Bumble has attracted 1.7M Indian users within 10 months of its launch in the country. Since its launch, women in India have made the first move over 3 million times.
Month: September 2019
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Russia’s Largest Social Network Starts a Dating App
BLOOMBERG – Sep 12 – VKontakte, Russia's largest social network run by Mail.ru Group, is starting its own dating app Lovina centered around quick videochats. Lovina is also using AI to protect users from explicit content. To avoid privacy breaches, Lovina also has a separate user profile from the VKontakte social network. Lovina will be free, with no advertising, and aims to earn on in-app services such as promoting a user's profile or getting access to a list of people who liked your profile for more than 48 hours, known as "love potion."
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Internet Dating Jobs Listing Update – September 2019
OPW – Sep 12 – The new Internet dating jobs listing is live on the Internet Dating Jobs blog.
Below see a couple of this month's most interesting offers:
Bumble
CMO
eHarmony
Vice President, Digital Acquisition
Grindr
Director, People
Match Group
Corporate Counsel
The League
Director or VP of Operations & Finance (COO fxn)
Tinder
VP/Senior Director, New Product Development
To see more open positions go here.
Do you have an idating industry job offer which is not included? Please, send it to tips@onlinepersonalswatch.com and we will add it to the list.
Apple Tweaks Its App Store Algorithm as Antitrust Investigations Loom
TECH CRUNCH – Sep 11 – That Apple has used its App Store to offer itself a competitive advantage is nothing new. Apple displayed its apps in the No. 1 position on the Top Charts, for example, or banned apps that competed with iOS features or positioned its apps higher than competitors in search. Now, in the wake of antitrust investigations in the U.S. and abroad, as well as various anti-competitive lawsuits, Apple has adjusted the App Store's algorithm so fewer of its own apps would appear at the top of the search results.
Bumble CEO: Facebook Jumping Into the Dating Scene Is Validating
CNBC – Sep 11 – Bumble is an app that matches users with potential love interests as well as platonic friends and professional connections. Whitney Wolfe Herd, the founder and CEO of Bumble, joins "Squawk Box" to discuss the online dating space and the launch of Facebook Dating in the U.S.
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GoGaga: Indian Dating App That Involves Friends in the Matchmaking Process
YOURSTORY – Sep 11 – Indian dating app GoGaga was incubated as part of the 2018 FbStart programme. It is now targeting $500K in revenue with a 35% profit margin. The app was started by Neha Kanodia and Meet Kanodia in 2018 in Bengaluru, and is similar to meeting people offline, replaces a common intermediate with a trustworthy mutual friend who makes the introduction, and vouches for the connection. The GoGaga team is six-members strong with the app claiming ~40K users, of which over 30% were brought in through word-of-mouth. In September 2018, GoGaga got shortlisted to be a part of the FbStart programme, which is an incubation programme from Facebook designed to help early-stage mobile startups build and grow their apps. The app received $40K from Facebook.