DAILYMAIL.CO.UK – June 4 – The Association of British Introduction Agencies says its members (matchmakers) saw an increase of ~27% in inquiries over the past year. The resurgence comes after numerous horror stories of fraudsters preying upon victims through online dating. The latest figures from the National Fraud Intelligence Bureau reveal 3,889 romance-seekers were duped into handing over £39M to criminals last year.
by Valerie Elliot
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DAILYMAIL.CO.UK – Mar 20 – Spontana is a mix between Instagram and Tinder. The app that lets people rate each other's selfies, all while finding a date. Users upload a picture of themselves that is rated by others. If two users give each other's selfies a high rating, they will then have the ability to contact one another – similar to Tinder's swipe model.
DAILYMAIL.CO.UK – Mar 1 – Lime is a new dating app that matches people based on how many steps they take. The app takes data from the Apple Health app. It analyses user's weekly step count and finds a partner whose stats match up.
DAILYMAIL.CO.UK – Jan 30 – The social networking app Yellow, which has 7M users, has been described as 'Tinder for teens'. Mother, Tanith Carey spent two months monitoring the activities of youngsters on the site and says it is an 'unedifying meat market' for 'sexual fishing' which puts teens at risk Just like Tinder, Yellow was launched as 'a virtual flirting app'. Users make a profile, posting a selfie photograph or video, then flick through all the other people on the site. They can then 'swipe right' if they like the look of someone, or left if they don't. Getting onto the site is easy for everyone regardless of their age. The founders say they are five millennial friends, who met at college: Emmanuel Khayat, Sacha Lazimi, Arthur Patora, Jeremie Aouate and Anthony Tuil. The makers insisted the site is moderated, children can report problems and 'a significant number of profiles are checked every day' — although they twice declined to say how many.
DAILYMAIL.CO.UK – Jan 6 – A group of marriage officials in Saudi Arabia have formed a group on WhatsApp to match men with multiple wives in an attempt to deal with the 'problem' of a rising number of divorced women, widows, and spinsters in the country. ~900 women, including divorcees, widows and women who had never married before, put their names forward saying they would not mind being a second, third or a fourth wife.
DAILYMAIL.CO.UK – Jan 2 – Tinder users express frustration as they discover all their potential dates have disappeared. Tinder experienced a similar glitch in March 2016, with thousands of users reporting their matches were gone. The issue was quickly fixed.
by Lauren Ingram
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DAILYMAIL.CO.UK – Dec 13 – Matzoball, a multi-city event, is celebrating its 30th anniversary in 2016. The first big event of its kind, Matzoball launched in Boston in 1987 when founder Andrew Rudnick organized a party for his Jewish friends on Christmas Eve – and since then, it's grown to ~3k people in its biggest locations, like New York and Miami. Another event is The Ball which is hosted by Let My People Go and attracts crowds of ~3k people in New York City. It also hosts parties in across the US and in Canada. It is called the 'mother of all Jewish Singles parties' by TimeOut. Jewbilee is a gay singles event. The company behind the event, Hebro, hosts other gay Jewish singles events year-round as well. Jewess Eve event is new to the Christmas Eve party scene, and also opens its doors to the Jewish trans community in New York.