HINDUSTAN TIMES – On its Developer Support page, Apple lists that it complies with the new rules set by the Netherlands Authority for Consumers and Markets (ACM). Hence, it will allow dating app developers in the Netherlands to have their own payment systems in place. However, Apple will continue to earn commissions on every transaction made via these third-party payment systems.
Month: January 2022
Dating News Headlines: Shaadi.com, JWed
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- JWed Releases Voice Intro, a First for Jewish Online Dating – JNS Wire
- Shaadi.com Is Looking to Enter Matchmaking for LGBTQ+ – Business Insider
Dating News Headlines: Snack, SingleMuslim.com
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Positive Singles Reached 2.3M Members
NEWSWIRE – Positive Singles, a dating site for people suffering from different types of sexually transmitted diseases, has reached 2.3M members. All members on the site are verified.
The Sauce Raises £1.25M in Seed Round
TECH.EU – London-founded video dating app The Sauce has raised £1.25M in a seed funding round. The funding will be used to continue further development of the app. Founded in 2020 by serial entrepreneurs Emma Clark and Sachin Karia, The Sauce officially launched in May 2021.
by Dan Taylor
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Dating.com: International Dating Trends in 2022
PR NEWSWIRE – Dating.com, part of the Dating Group – the company behind 30 online dating sites, with offices and dating experts in seven countries – released new data from its latest survey on the top international dating trends in 2022.
- In the UK, 45% of singles are sending gifts to potential dates before meeting in person
- In France, 63% of singles travels ~70 miles to meet their date
- North Americans are chatty. In the U.S., singles are more likely to meet up with their match after 30 messages are exchanged, while most Canadians wait until they've exchanged 100 messages on average.
- Worldwide, 38% of singles are open to dating someone who doesn't speak the same language as them.
- Singles in North America are spending the most on first dates, citing an average of $300. Europeans come in next, spending ~$150 to impress their potential match.
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Dating News Headlines: The Sauce, Dating.com
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China’s NewBorn Town to Set up $100M Fund to Privatise Blued
DEALSTREETASIA – Chinese social media firm NewBorn Town is planning to set up a $100M fund with an aim to privatise BlueCity Holdings, the operator of Blued, the country's biggest LGBTQ dating app. BlueCity's founder, chairman, and CEO Baoli Ma currently holds a 30.4% stake in the firm, which means that the buyer group will need to purchase the remaining 69.6% stake, or ~25.9M ADSs, for ~$48M in total. BlueCity has formed an independent special committee to evaluate and consider the going-private proposal. BlueCity started trading on Nasdaq after a $85M IPO in July 2020. Blued, which serves over 60M registered users in 170 countries and regions, offers social networking, live streaming, and health-related services to the LGBTQ community.
Japanese Society Is Becoming Characterized by Singledom
PSYCHOLOGY TODAY – Japan is leading the pack in the age of singlehood. Three separate surveys conducted between 2010 and 2018 in Britain, the U.S., and Japan reveal that the proportions of women aged 18 to 24 who are currently single were 65.6% in Japan, 62.6% in the United States, and 41.5% in Britain. Yet the gap opens up wildly when looking at the proportion of women aged 35 to 39 who are currently single. The numbers in these surveys were 24.4% in Japan, 16.6% in the U.S., and 14% in Britain. Japan's population shrank by 947K (0.74%) in the five years between 2010 and 2015. 45% of women and 25% of men between the ages of 16 and 24 reported they are not interested in sexual contact.