BUSINESS INSIDER – Mar 24 – Tokyo-based Mrk & Co has recently launched a new dating app in the US and Canada called "Dine." The goal of Dine is to get users offline as quickly as possible. After filling out a profile, members pick three restaurants where they'd want to go on a date. Dine then shows them 2-5 people per day to invite on a date.
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The Grade Dating App Wants To Be Yelp For Online Dating
BUSINESS INSIDER – Oct 12 - The Grade is a dating app that lets users submit reviews of people they've dated. The app launched last year, and in its first iteration, it relied on an algorithm to weed out the worst people. But feedback from women led The Grade's team to the idea of letting people dictate the rating. The ratings won't allow any text, only "yes/no" to given questions. The Grade then takes the sum of all these "yes/no" answers to generate a grade (A-F).