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YOUR STORY – Tanvi and Rishabh Gupta launched SwoonMe in the US and India as a voice-first dating app. "It is very easy to filter and completely change the way you look in profile photos but it's hard to fake your voice. A person's voice shows emotion, personality, sociability, and so much more", Tanvi explains. Tanvi moved to the US at the age of 16, for higher education and has an MBA degree from Marquette University in Milwaukee. She worked on Wall Street with Morgan Stanley and Citi Group. She also met her husband and moved to the Bay Area – joining Facebook to work on Messenger and Instagram for three years. When the pandemic hit, she felt it was time to move on from Facebook.
by Rekha Balakrishnan
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NEW YORK POST – A popular teen dating app named Yubo has come under fire after an investigation found it to be a cesspool of sexual harassment, racism and other sordid activities. "What I have heard about this site is sickening," said Chris Philp, Britain's minister for tech and the digital economy. A Times reporter spent 10 days posing as a 15-year-old on Yubo, which she noted didn't require an age verification. During her investigation, she claimed that users would frequently proposition her and ask for nude pics.
POP! – In 2020, 4 friends decided to spice up the online dating scene by creating a dating and friend-making app where users can flex their personality not only through profile prompts but through drawing prompts and fire drawings as well. The creators went viral on TikTok and their app blew up, allowing them to take a break from college and focus on the development of Monet.
NEW YORK POST – Fourplay, a new dating app created by two New York City singles, allows friends to create joint profiles for double dates – and it has a 9K-person waitlist. The app's buddy system requires unanimity among the four people who share two profiles in order to proceed to a group chat, where the users brainstorm over a time and a place to meet for their double date.
NEW YORK TIMES – Romance scams have increased in the pandemic. So have crypto prices. That has made crypto a useful entry point for criminals looking to part victims from their savings. 56K romance scams, totaling $139M in losses, were reported to the Federal Trade Commission last year. That is nearly twice as many reports as the agency received the previous year. In a bulletin last fall, the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Oregon office warned that crypto dating scams were emerging as a major category of cybercrime, with ~1,800 reported cases in the first seven months of the year.
Quick links to today's dating news headlines.
Quick links to today's dating news headlines.
Quick links to today's dating news headlines.
REUTERS – The Dutch antitrust watchdog fined Apple 5M euros ($5.7M) again on Monday, the fifth such fine for failing to allow software app makers in the Netherlands to use non-Apple payment methods for dating apps on the App Store.