USA TODAY – June 30 - Tinder is being sued for sexual harassment and discrimination by Whitney Wolfe, former marketing VP. In the suit, she alleges Tinder co-founder Justin Mateen stripped Wolfe of her co-founder title, telling her that having a "24‐year-old girl" as a co-founder made the company "seem like a joke." Wolfe also alleges Mateen called her a "whore" in front of CEO Sean Rad.
Category: Reporters – Jessica Guynn
Skout App May Shut Teen Forum Permanently
LA TIMES – June 21 – Skout shut down its forum for 13- to-17-year-olds last week and assigned a team of security specialists to determine whether it can make the app safe for teens. If not, the company plans to close that forum for good. The alleged assaults on two girls, ages 12 and 15, and on a 13-year-old boy underscore how tough it can be to keep kids safe on a new generation of mobile apps. Skout was originally created as a flirting app for adults, and users had to be 18 or older to sign up. It morphed into more of a social networking app that finds people nearby with whom a user can swap messages, photos and virtual gifts and make plans to meet up. But so many of the app’s users were kids (~15%) that last year Skout opened a separate forum for teens.
by Jessica Guynn & Michelle Maltais
The full article was originally published at The Republic, but is no longer available.