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
