Category: Reporters – Jordan Crook

Zoosk Ditches IPO Plan As Founders Exit Leadership Roles

Posted on December 19, 2014

Zoosk-headshotsTECH CRUNCH – Dec 17 – Zoosk's CFO Kelly Steckelberg is taking over as CEO. She will be replacing co-founder Shayan Zadeh, who is becoming a member of the board, and his co-founder Alex Mehr (currently president) will also be moving into a board position. The shift comes at a time when Zoosk is reassessing the idea of an IPO. The company filed an S-1 for a $100M IPO, but has since decided to revisit that option at a later date.

by Jordan Crook
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Bumble Is Exactly Like Tinder Except Girls Are In Charge

Posted on December 2, 2014

Bumble picTECH CRUNCH – Dec 2 – Whitney Wolfe and a group of other former Tinder employees has just launched Tinder competitor called Bumble. It’s almost identical to Tinder but guys are not allowed to send the first message on Bumble. Girls must initiate the conversation with their matches, or else they disappear after 24 hours. The only control the guy has in the situation is the ability to extend one match each day for an extra 24 hours.

by Jordan Crook
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Former Tinder Employees To Launch Direct Competitor Called Bumble

Posted on November 25, 2014

Bumble screenshotTECH CRUNCH – Nov 24 – Whitney Wolfe, an early employee at Tinder who sued the company for sexual harassment and workplace discrimination, has joined up with two other early Tinder employees, Chris Gulczynski and his partner Sarah Mick (cofounders of YayNext), to launch a direct competitor to Tinder called Bumble. A preview video of the app shows a user making a match and chatting. The app is slated to launch on December 1.

by Jordan Crook
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Coffee Meets Bagel Replaces Twilio With Own IM

Posted on May 23, 2014

Coffee meets bagel logoTECH CRUNCH – May 23 - Coffee Meets Bagel released a major update today, which ended its use of Twilio for messaging in favor of its own IM. The feature retains its 7-day expiry. CMB has found that users who exchange texts within the first 24 hrs are more likely to exchange phone numbers and were chatting at 2.6x the volume of those who didn’t, so the update gives them more control over this experience. The company has raised $2.8M in funding.

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HowAboutWe Launches You&Me Messaging App For Couples

Posted on May 2, 2014

Howaboutwe youandme appTECH CRUNCH – May 1 - You&Me and is the first standalone project out of the company. Users have a whole set of options for the type of messages they can send their partners. There are standard photo, text, and video messages, as well as the ability to send voice memos and their favorite song. The You&Me app is free and available now in the App Store.

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Match.com Launches New iPhone App

Posted on April 24, 2014

Matchcom iphone appTECH CRUNCH – Apr 24 - Match.com is unveiling an entirely redesigned mobile app for iPhone users, with the release of Match 3.0. Match.com has implemented a few new features that are built specifically for mobile such as Discover page. There are two parts to the Discover page: Stream and Mixer. Stream is a list of people users might be interested in. The Mixer experience is very similar to Tinder. Users swipe right if they like someone, and swipe left if they don’t.

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Users State Sexual Intentions With HeavenlySinful Dating App

Posted on April 15, 2014

Heavenly sinful logoTECH CRUNCH – Apr 14 – HeavenlySinful is like Tinder but it asks users to state what they’re after each time they open up the app. Their intentions, either Heavenly or Sinful, are then put on a mood map for people nearby to see who in their neighborhood is feeling frisky or looking for something legit. Right now, the company can generate revenue of in-app purchases for stickers and such, but eventually the team is considering implementing a system that lets someone pay to talk to another user if they didn’t get a match.

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Twine Canvas Is Like Tinder But Based On Personality

Posted on February 3, 2014

Twine canvas screenshotTECH CRUNCH – Feb 1 – Mobile app developer Sourcebits has released a new dating app, Twine Canvas. The app asks users to browse and create “personality canvases,” which is a digital collage of their interests. If both sides of the connection “like” each others canvases, then profile photos are revealed. To create a canvas, users must add photos that don’t show their faces, from the camera roll or Facebook albums.

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MeetMe Launches Dating App Charm

Posted on October 16, 2013

Charm app screenshotTECH CRUNCH – Oct 16 – Social discovery site MeetMe is launching a dating app called Charm. It works like Tinder but instead of swiping profile photos for yes/no, users swipe videos which are created the same way as on Vine. If two users like each other, Charm unlocks their chat functionality.

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Grouper Talks Competition

Posted on May 31, 2013

TECH CRUNCH – May 30 – ­Grouper has been around since 2011. The service matches users with singles they may enjoy canoodling with, but asks that each party bring two of their friends for a group date. Grouper was founded by Michael Waxman. In his opinion, Grouper has a leg up on the competition because it facilitates real-life meeting, whereas traditional dating sites and social networks are more focused on letting you message and look at photos.

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