Bumble said Friday founder Whitney Wolfe Herd was returning as CEO in March and that the struggling dating app operator expects to exceed its fourth-quarter revenue forecast. Wolfe Herd, executive chair of Bumble, will take the reins from Lidiane Jones, who steps down after a tenure of about a year that was marked by a nearly 50% decline … Read more
Imagine this: AI wingmen! That’s the future of dating, according to Bumble’s founder, who discussed “dating concierges” powered by AI at the Bloomberg Technology Summit. As discussed at the Bloomberg Technology Summit, Bumble’s founder, Whitney Wolfe Herd, envisioned AI taking over your dating life. In her talk with Bloomberg’s Emily Chang, Wolfe Herd emphasised Bumble’s … Read more
Whitney Wolfe Herd, the millionaire founder of dating app Bumble, won the top prize for Bloomberg’s men’s March Madness charity challenge by impressively picking 43 of 63 games accurately. Her bracket picks included correctly choosing the entire Midwest region, and betting that the University of Connecticut would beat Indiana’s Purdue University in Monday’s match-up. UConn, … Read more
Bumble announced plans to lay off 350 employers on Tuesday, reducing its headcount by 30% as part of a larger restructuring plan. Job cuts across dating app — whose defining feature is that only women can initiate chats with male suitors — is the first big move by CEO Lidiane Jones, who took over in … Read more
Tinder, which describes itself as the “world’s most popular app for meeting new people”, was launched in 2012. The brand has since become available in more than 190 countries and in 56 languages, according to US subscription data. In September 2021, an investigation that studied Tinder account holders found that a staggering 75 million people … Read more
Good Faces Agency / Unsplash Valentine’s Day is here, so naturally, the country’s premier security agency has to warn the love-stricken souls about the risks of romance scams. In case that term doesn’t ring a bell, it involves a bad actor trapping a victim into a sham love affair. In 2022 alone, romance scams led … Read more
