Category: Outlets – Huffington Post
Tinder Goes Down With Thousands Claiming They Lost Their Matches
Bumble Raises Over $28K For Planned Parenthood
Tinder Users Being Conned Into Paying Over $110 A Month In New Scam
HUFFINGTON POST – July 21 – Security providers Symantec have written on their blog about a reported rise in a particular type of scam that offers "a free verified service" but takes users credit card info instead and sign them up for an adult webcam site for $118/month.
Grindr Founder Responds To Claim That The App Is Killing Gay Bars
HUFFINGTON POST – Mar 14 – The belief that Grindr and other gay apps may be helping to destroy the gay bar scene is nothing new. However, in the eyes of Joel Simkhai, the opposite may actually be true. "Our users are still socializing in bars and clubs very well. And even if you're in these places and too shy to come up to someone, at the bar you can still use Grindr. The feedback we get is that Grindr is a very effective tool to drive."
Match Group IPO Raises Questions About Privacy
HUFFINGTON POST – Feb 23 – Despite its success, Match's IPO was not without controversy. Questions were raised by IAC's decision to include two educational companies (The Princeton Review and Tutor) along with the dating sites in the newly-formed Match Group. By mingling two educational companies that feature large student populations with dating sites, does Match intend for a student's personal information to be accessed by those dating sites? According to the policy user's information can be shared "with vendors and other third parties" – sites like Tinder and Match.com.
Sugar Daddies Are Funding Higher Education
HUFFINGTON POST – Feb 16 – Great academic programs get cut, tuition goes up, and students compensate by sleeping with older men for money. Students are forced to find alternative and unconventional methods of funding. According to SeekingArrangement.com, a dating site that connects college students with wealthy benefactors, the University of Texas is the fastest growing campus adopting this relationship.
by Xavier Rotnofsky
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Siren Dating App’s 2015 Year In Review
HUFFINGTON POST – Dec 31 – Siren, a female-friendly dating site that lets women be in control, launched in 2014. Durex approached Siren to partner in their campaign #Connect that went viral with ~37M views. Siren won Geekwire's App of the Year, beating out Starbucks and Alaska Airlines. The app was also named one of the Top 10 startups to watch in Seattle. In November, Siren started to serve the LGBTQ community, growing 150% in the last three months.
Siren Is Another Female-Friendly Dating App
HUFFINGTON POST – Dec 10 – Susie Lee launched Siren, a female-friendly dating app, two months ago. Siren allows women to control their own visibility. Users choose who gets to see their photos and when, exactly, they reveal them. After two months, the app gained 9,500 members, and the female-to-male ratio is 53:47 across all ages, according to Lee. There is no swiping, users get to know each other through a "Question of the Day" forum.
Q&A With Queery Founder Hayley Thayer
HUFFINGTON POST – Aug 20 –
Q: What is Queery?
A: It is a location-based mobile dating app that caters to the variety of identities and preferences.
Q: How does Queery work?
A: Users customize their identities along four scales that represent various facets of human identity. They will only be matched with users in their area whose identities fall into their specified ranges.
Q: Why did you found Queery?
A: Most dating apps require people to identify as female or male, gay or straight. People who identify between these categories are either forced to choose or are excluded entirely.
Q: What has been the biggest challenge in founding Queery?
A: We are still trying to spread awareness and raise the funds. The biggest challenge is going to be reaching out to people outside of our immediate network of supporters.