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Data Are Hackable On Tinder And Grindr According To Security Expert

Posted on May 19, 2015

NEW SCIENTIST – May 18 – A new study by Raymond Choo, an information security expert at the University of South Australia in Adelaide, shows that it is easy to hack into Tinder and Grindr. On Tinder his team was able to pull up images of all of the profiles that the person had viewed, and records of whether or not they had matched. They also found the user's Facebook token that could let them access that person's account. On Grindr, the team managed to access data about people that the users had checked out in the app, including their date of birth, their distance from the user on last viewing, and a database of sent and received chat messages.

by Aviva Rutkin
See full article at New Scientist

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Grindr Is Seeking A Buyer

Posted on May 10, 2015

BLOOMBERG – May 9 – Gay dating app Grindr has hired Raine Group to advise it on a possible sale. Joel Simkhai founded Grindr in 2009 with $5K. Four years later, the company is still self-funded with no outside investors, and charges about $12 a month.

by Leslie Picker & Alex Sherman
See full article at Bloomberg

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Happy 6th Birthday Grindr

Posted on March 26, 2015

GRINDR – Mar 25 - Grindr is celebrating its sixth birthday this week. The gay dating app launched in 2009, and has now ~1.6M active daily users exchanging 70M chat messages and 5M pictures.

The full article was originally published at Grindr blog, but is no longer available.

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SXSW Interview With Grindr CEO

Posted on March 16, 2015

THENEXTWEB – Mar 16 – Bootstrapped with no VC funding and fueled by word-of-mouth growth, Grindr is a great example of an company that has made a big impact on its own terms. Grindr CEO Joel Simkhai was interviewed by Martin Bryant Editor-in-Chief at The Next Web at SXSW. You can listen to the conversation below.

by Martin Bryant
See full article at TheNextWeb

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Why Are The Founders Of Grindr And Hinge Still Single?

Posted on February 23, 2015

NY POST – Feb 22 – Joel Simkhai, the founder of Grindr, is still single despite his success setting others up. So is Justin McLeod, the founder of Hinge. “The number one question I get if they’re a Grindr user is, ‘Do you have access to my chats? What do you know about me?’” says Simkhai. Justin McLeod’s doesn’t mention he’s the CEO either. He says he’s been in multiple relationships thanks to Hinge, some lasting a few months. Still, he says, “If I were an expert at dating I would not have started a dating site.” Simkhai agrees. “One of the reasons I started Grindr was that no one ever set me up!”

by Jennifer Wright
See full article at NY Post

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Which Dating Sites Received The Best And Worst PR In 2014?

Posted on February 7, 2015

CB – Feb 7 – A lot of companies that traditionally receive a lot of press hits appeared to be lacking this year, including POF, Badoo, SNAP Interactive and Zoosk. Tinder got the most press coverage in 2014, followed by Match.com. Articles mainly highlighted Tinder's impressive growth. It also scored some negative press, most notably the Whitney Wolfe lawsuit. We heard a little less about eHarmony last year, but they still received solid press coverage thanks to their new eH+ service and the announcement of a plan to launch a "jobs matchmaker". OkCupid, as usual, made the list along with AshleyMadison, Grindr and Hinge. There were also companies with more sad than good news. Cupid was one of them. They sold their casual dating sites in 2013, posted weak 2013 annual results, tried unsuccessfully to revive their business, and even launched new services such as LoveBeginsAt and dating app Tangle. In December the news came out that the company decided to sell the remaining mainstream dating sites and quit the dating business. It was not an easy year for Spark Networks either. After some bad news for investors, a fight between the company leadership and Osmium partners began, ending in July with Osmium appointing 4 new directors to the Spark´s board. CEO Greg Liberman left the company in August and layoffs began in September.

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How Grindr Makes It Easy To Stalk 5M Gay Men

Posted on January 17, 2015

ARS TECHNICA – Jan 15 – Geographic locations of Grindr users in the US and most other places can be tracked down to the very park bench they happen to be having lunch or bar where they're drinking and monitored almost continuously, according to research scheduled to be presented Saturday at the Shmoocon security conference in Washington, DC that shows Synack researchers we able to set up a free account and track the detailed movements of several fellow users who volunteered to participate in the experiment.

by Dan Goodin
See full article at Ars Technica

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Grindr For Equality Campaign

Posted on January 9, 2015

SO SO GAY – Jan 8 – Over 250K Grindr users worldwide have helped raise the profile of a range of equality issues, from human rights to sexual health, last year. The campaign continues to request submissions and information pertaining to the LGBT community where users live; individuals and like-minded groups are encouraged to send an email with basic contact information and a brief description of how the issue relates to the LGBT community, and how the campaign could provide assistance.

by Elliot Herman
The full article was originally published at So So Gay, but is no longer available.

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Dating Apps Blamed For Soaring STDs

Posted on January 5, 2015

DAILYMAIL.CO.UK – Jan 3 – Peter Greenhouse, of the British Association for Sexual Health and HIV, said: "These apps make having casual sex a damn sight easier." Advocates say it works because it is spontaneous and discreet, but critics believe it is making casual sex more normal. Mr Greenhouse said: 'Thanks to Grindr or Tinder, you can acquire chlamydia in five minutes.'

by Stephen Adams
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Joel Simkhai About His 6 Years Old Grindr

Posted on December 18, 2014

NY TIMES – Dec 18 – It has been nearly six years since Mr. Simkhai introduced the world to Grindr, a geosocial networking gay app. In both free and subscription-based versions, Grindr employs the GPS function of a smartphone to allow a user to identify men within relative proximity. The app claims 4M users in 192 countries, reportedly including Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran and Ghana, places where by being gay, people sometimes risk death. “Grindr is a very, very visual experience,” said Mr. Simkhai, who occasionally posts a shirtless photograph on his own profile. “Outside the gay community, people say it’s just a hookup app. And absolutely, sex is going on. But there’s always the possibility you will find someone who will move you."

by Guy Trebay
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