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ABACUS NEWS - Feb 28 - Chinese dating app Zhenai is allowing its users to have blind dates through video streams. These dates happen live, in public and for everyone to watch and comment. Similar to Tinder, Zhenai allows swiping through profiles - except, in this case, getting a match leads to a direct voice call with the person.
by Masha Borak
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SCREEN DAILY - Feb 28 - Last year, Bumble put up £100K to fund short films from five filmmaking teams from the UK and Ireland – the completed films were screened at an industry event in London earlier this year and are now being submitted to screen at festivals. For the second edition the project will also take submissions from both France and Germany. The applications process is now open and will run until March 20, with 10 chosen teams to be invited to pitch to the judging panel in June this year. Final five teams will then be expected to deliver completed films by January 2020. The company is accepting applications from anyone who identifies as a woman.
by Tom Grater
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XINHUA - Feb 28 - On stage, girls wearing masks take turns introducing themselves, and men, sitting behind two lines of desks, express their interest by turning on a light on their desk. This is a dating event held at a matchmaking service center in south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. Since opening in 2015, the center and its founder Pang Yufang have seen 2k people find love. In Pang's service center, ~40K people have signed up, and ~300 volunteers work to examine and sift through the documents. Volunteers at the center are mostly retirees like Pang, who are keen to help young people find love.
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DAILY TARGUM - Feb 28 - Helen Fisher, a research associate and chief scientific advisor for Match.com, broke down her findings regarding love, relationships and the chemical processes that cause these functions. An expert on love, Fisher has conducted an annual study on 30K singles in the US with Match.com for the past nine years. She said love is a bodily function. "It's a drive. In fact, when my colleagues and I put people into the brain scanner and found basic brain circuitry for romantic love, we found activity in a tiny factory in the base of the brain called the ventral tegmental area that pumps out dopamine," Fisher said. "It lies near brain regions that regulate thirst and hunger." Fisher divided love into three distinct systems for mating and reproduction: sex drive, feelings of romantic love and feelings of intense attachment. Physical appearance is like a prescreening toward love, she said. A person's looks are the first thing that other people evaluate, whether they are seen in a bar, subway, church or even on Tinder. The issue with online dating is that people stay on the sites for too long. An alternative to this problem is to redefine dating sites as "introducing sites."
by Christian Balbuena
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CITYAM - Feb 28 - Dating app The Inner Circle has found that in London, finance professionals made up the most right-swiped men and women on the app. The second most popular professions for men were in the computer and tech industry. For women the second best profession was the in healthcare. The Inner Circle analyzed 5K members in cities like London, New York, Amsterdam, Paris, LA, Toronto and Sydney.
by Alyana Vera
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FORTUNE - Feb 27 - In recognition of National Day of Unplugging on March 1, the app is encouraging users to put away their phone and meet potential partners the old-fashioned way: at a bar. Beginning on Thursday, users will have the choice to opt into Friday's "holiday" and turn off the app's Discover section (where users can find and "like" potential matches) for 24 hours. Those in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Miami will then receive an invite for two free drinks and phone-free mingling at local Freehand Hotels' Broken Shaker bars.
by Renae Reints
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PR NEWSWIRE - In response to a request by Craigslist, Cragly recently changed its name to "Pernals." The new name "Pernals" is derived from the word "Personals," which indicates that the app is a personals app. The app was primarily created to help people who like personals-ad-style websites and apps.
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TIMES OF INDIA - Feb 27 - "The female self-created profiles have grown from 40% in 2008 to 50% in 2018 largely contributing to the overall growth of female profiles on the platform. However the ratio of male self-created profiles have remained unchanged since 2008," said Gourav Rakshit, CEO of Shaadi.com. Female users are "sending out 3.5 times more interests" to men than they did in 2008.
by Sindhu Hariharan
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NYULOCAL - Feb 27 - Dating app Bounce is only live sometimes. When the app "goes live," that means users have 15 minutes to swipe on someone. They only get 60 seconds per profile, and if they match, that means that this person is their One True Match. It also means that they're going on a date with them at 9PM, the same day. The app chooses the bar.
by Sophie Bramnick
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BIZBASH - Feb 27 - Bumble took over Bangarang bar on February 14, 2019. An in-app invite was sent out to Bumble Date and Bumble BFF users across Toronto, drawing 330 guests. The campaign and event took around five months to plan and execute. Narrative oversaw the design of the event and North Marketing Solutions assisted with the physical execution.
by Amanda Scriver
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EIN NEWS - Feb 27 - Created by Miami Entrepreneurs, Perchance allows singles to reconnect with people they've shared real life passing moments with. Perchance earned 5th place on Product Hunt, featuring the best new products in technology and recently pitched the original shark from Shark Tank, Kevin Harrington, on Pitch Investors Live.
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TECH CRUNCH - Feb 26 - Tinder is launching a new feature designed for its college-aged Tinder U users, called Spring Break mode. The feature will allow students to swipe through potential matches before heading out to their Spring Break destination. Tinder will be offering 20 popular destinations, including Cabo, Lake Havasu, Las Vegas, Miami, New Orleans, Puerto Rico, Puerto Vallarta, San Diego and others. To opt in, Tinder U users will need to look for the Spring Break card while swiping. When they see it, they can then select their Spring Break destination to see who's going. Tinder had also begun an online publication, Swipe Life, and is running various advertising campaigns, related to this initiative.
by Sarah Perez
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THE MOTLEY FOOL - Feb 27 - We're a couple of weeks away from Momo posting its Q4 results, and investors are probably nervous. The Chinese social-video and online-dating company burned investors last time out, landing at the low end of its earlier revenue forecast and offering up guidance calling for continuing deceleration. Analysts at Citi and Morgan Stanley would go on to downgrade the stock following the uninspiring results, sending the shares to their lowest levels in nearly a year. Momo stock has started to bounce back in recent weeks. The shares are trading 49% higher in 2019. Revenue at Momo has more than tripled over the past two years. Momo is hot right now. It attracted 110.5M monthly active users, up from 94.4M a year earlier. No one knows what the hot mobile platforms will be in 2024. One thing that does help Momo here is that it is very profitable, with a cash-rich balance sheet to boot. Momo has nearly $1.5B in cash on its books. Tantan won't be the last of Momo's purchases.
by Rick Munarriz
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BUSINESSWIRE - Feb 26 - 14 months after its re-launch, SilverSingles, the online dating platform for the 50+ demographic in Spark Networks' portfolio, has exceeded 50K monthly paying members globally. Formed in 2017 through the merger of Affinitas GmbH (founded in 2008) and Spark Networks (founded in 1997), the company has a presence in 29 countries worldwide and supports 15 languages.
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SIXTH TONE - Feb 26 - Chinese dating site Jiayuan.com is suing a user who lied in her profile to attract suitors and extort them for expensive gifts. According to Jiayuan, ~190M users are registered on the platform. In September 2017, the company faced intense scrutiny following the high-profile death of a former customer - a tech entrepreneur who wrote in his suicide note that his ex-wife, whom he'd met through Jiayuan, had driven him to despair. The same month, the Communist Youth League, the Ministry of Civil Affairs, and the National Health and Family Planning Commission issued a joint directive requiring real-name registration on dating sites. Jiayuan said that it is working with a third party to establish a social credit system for its users, and that in the meantime it had assembled a team specifically tasked with reviewing and verifying personal information.
by Fu Danni
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