Category: Outlets – Business Insider

DatePlay Dating App Wants To Raise £120K

Posted on July 20, 2016

Dateplay logoUK BUSINESS INSIDER – July 19 – Vana Koutsomitis, a runner-up on TV show "The Apprentice," is looking to raise £120K for DatePlay, her dating app that she pitched to Lord Sugar in the final of the BBC show. DatePlay will use interactive games to try and understand users personality before recommending matches for them to swipe left or right. The app is currently under development and the money will be used for marketing purposes. She's already raised £75K of the £120K target from a number of private investors.

by Sam Shead
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Huggle Survey: Tinder Is Making People Self-conscious

Posted on July 4, 2016

Huggle logoBUSINESS INSIDER – July 2 – A new survey, carried out by social app Huggle, has found that 62% of people say dating apps like Tinder make them feel self-conscious and depressed about their appearance. Huggle doesn't use "face-swiping" and matches people based on the locations they go to. It works in a similar way to French dating app Happn. Huggle has received investment from Andrey Andreev, the Russian entrepreneur who cofounded dating app and social network Badoo. Huggle was founded by model Stina Sanders and gardening blogger Valerie Stark.

by James Cook
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“Power Pose” – The Best Body Language To Use In Online Dating Profile

Posted on July 1, 2016

Man on pool floatBUSINESS INSIDER – July 1 – HBS professor Amy Cuddy saw her now husband for the first time on Facebook. She noticed his photo because he was positioned "in the most extreme 'power pose' imaginable." "Power pose" is a term that Cuddy coined in her 2012 TED Talk, and it describes an expansive posture that can make you feel more powerful and confident. Research suggests that we're more attracted to people in expansive – as opposed to contracted – postures, even if we don't consciously realize it.

by Shana Lebowitz
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Why Women Should Make The First Move

Posted on June 30, 2016

Bumble whitney wolfe2BUSINESS INSIDER – June 30 – In a recent interview on the Girlboss Radio podcast, Whitney Wolfe discussed what motivated her to found Bumble, a dating app where only women can initiate the first move. On Match.com only ~18% of emails between straight women and straight men are initiated by women. In the most recent "Singles in America" survey, ~90% of men said they're comfortable with a woman asking them out. According to a recent OkCupid study, women who make the first move can wind up with more attractive partners than women who wait for men to ask them out. That's because women generally message men who are five points more attractive than they are, while they typically receive messages from men who are seven points less attractive.

by Shana Lebowitz
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Dating Apps With Highest % Of Women

Posted on June 4, 2016

BUSINESS INSIDER – Jun 3 – SurveyMonkey Intelligence looked at the numbers to see which dating apps have the highest proportion of women. Christian Mingle scored the top spot, with women-friendly apps like Coffee Meets Bagel and Bumble also scoring high. Tinder and Happn ranked lower, while, unsurprisingly, gay app Grindr fell in last place.

Survey monkey graph 1They also looked at what % users engage with an app on a daily basis. The results were, in many cases, completely flipped (Grindr and Happn were on top). Men are much more "engaged."

Survey monkey graph 2by Nathan McAlone
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Happn Is Now In India, And Is Not Afraid Of Competition

Posted on May 31, 2016

Happn didier rappaport picBUSINESS INSIDER – May 31 – In early 2014, Didier Rapport launched a dating app called Happn, with the aim of connecting people who have crossed paths in real life. As of last month, Happn had 15M users worldwide. Rapport had claimed that the app is gaining 1.2M users every month and that it could match Tinder by 2017. This month they launched in India.

Q: What was the idea behind bringing Happn to India?
A: India, with its 1.3B inhabitants, was naturally a market that we had to enter.

Q: How does India fit into Happn's strategy?
A: We have the ambition of being a leading meet-up app. India is the second-largest country in terms of population and therefore offers an extremely high potential.

Q: Any features that have been modified to suit to the country?
A: The app is the same everywhere.

Q: What is the one year goal for Happn in India?
A: A very large user base in the coming months, and setting up an office in the country.

by Poulomi Das
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Happn Is Launching A New “See You There” Feature

Posted on May 13, 2016

Happn screenshot3BUSINESS INSIDER – May 12 – The new feature will allow Happn users to state on their profiles that they are interested in doing a particular activity for the next few hours. Activities range from grabbing a bite to eat, going for a run, or catching a movie. If two people are interested in doing the same activity then a "Crush" (match) will be formed.

by Sam Shead
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Match Group Has Managed To Prevent Tinder ‘Cannibalising’ Its Other Dating Sites

Posted on May 7, 2016

Match group jan 16BUSINESS INSIDER – May 5 – Some investors and analysts had been worried about users being shifted from one Match-owned app or site to Tinder. Tinder is hugely popular – Match reported that it has 1M members of its paid "Tinder Plus" tier that offers extra features. However, Match's earnings showed that the company has managed to avoid cannibalisation by growing Tinder's rivals as well as the app itself.

by James Cook
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Money Transfer App TransferWise Refused 3nder Business

Posted on April 1, 2016

3nder screenshotsBUSINESS INSIDER – Mar 31 – The CEO of a polyamorous dating app 3nder is accusing TransferWise of 'double standards' for refusing him service. TransferWise is known for its provocative publicity stunts. In January 2015, the Estonian money transfer app sent a dozen nearly naked employees running through London to protest banks' "unfair exchange rates." TransferWise refused to let the company open a business account because of the "nature of the business".

by Rob Price
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Burner Phone Number: A Must-have Online Dating Tool

Posted on March 31, 2016

Burnerapp screenshotBUSINESS INSIDER – Mar 30 – In 2012 Greg Cohn and his co-founder Will Carter were building an app that could show when people were available to talk. Instead of posting a personal number to Twitter to show you could talk, the app had a burner feature where a fake number could be created and disappear right after the person used it. The "talk when you're available" app idea floundered, but Cohn's friends latched onto the idea of discarding a phone number. It's also turned out to be a great tool for dating. Now, 44% of its users have created a burner number for online dating.

by Biz Carson
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