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Match and Candace Bushnell Team up to Help Singles Find Love in 2022
PR NEWSWIRE - Match has partnered with Candace Bushnell, international best-selling author and the OG Carrie Bradshaw, to help Match members find love during dating's peak season. Starting January 2, known as 'Dating Sunday', Candace will be overseeing Match's new Expert Picks feature. With Expert Picks, members will take a quiz to opt-in to receiving hand-picked matches from the Match Experts team, and Candace herself will be personally dropping in to deliver matches.
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Dating App BLK Turned 'Vax That Thang up' Into the Song of the Summer
ADWEEK - Despite the havoc that multiple Covid-19 variants have wreaked over the past two years, vaccination remains a very controversial topic - especially within the Black community. BLK, the largest dating app made for black singles, has partnered with rap legends Juvenile, Mannie Fresh, and Mia X, turning the iconic rap classic "Back That Thang Up" into the new vaccine anthem, "Vax That Thang Up."
by Shannon Miller & Malinda diPasquale
See full article at AdWeek
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Dating News Headlines: BLK, Match, Aill Goen
Quick links to today's dating news headlines.
- Matchmaking Agency in Japan Uses Vending Machine to Offer Its Services - Malay Mail
- Match and Candace Bushnell Team up to Help Singles Find Love in 2022 - PR Newswire
- How Dating App BLK Turned 'Vax That Thang Up' Into the Song of the Summer - AdWeek
- Japan Firms Adopt AI Dating App to Help Staff Find Love Amid Pandemic - Kyodo News
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Buy Match to Exploit Apple's Outdated Payment System
FORBES - A Dutch antitrust authority ruled that Apple must allow dating apps to use alternative payments or face a weekly fine of $5.6M. Investors should consider buying Match Group. A filing at the Securities and Exchange Commission in June revealed Match had 15.1M paying subscribers, up 15% from a year ago. Annualized revenue was $2.7B and profits reached $978M. Match shares closed on Thursday at $133.44. The stock trades at 72.6x forward earnings, and 13.1x sales. Market capitalization has fallen to $37.2B, following a share price decline of 11% in 2021. Shares can easily trade to $190 during the next 12 months on the Apple news alone, a gain of 42% from current levels.
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A Chinese City Is Building a Dating Database for Its Singles
VICE.COM - Communist Party officials from the northern city of Luanzhou have begun work on gathering the personal information of unmarried men and women, and entering collected data in a central database. Two group dating parties have been organized already this year, with a virtual dating party scheduled to be held on New Year's Eve on app Douyin, the original Chinese version of TikTok. But the government's intentions, however good, were lost on many Chinese internet users, who remained skeptical about their approach to finding love. Gender imbalance remains a huge issue in Chinese society, a hangover of the country’s decades-long one-child policy which saw a strong preference for boys over girls.
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Dating News Headlines: Parship, Match
Quick links to today's dating news headlines.
- Parship Launches New Campaign - Media.de (in German)
- Forget Tinder. This Chinese City Is Building a Dating Database for Its Singles - Vice
- Buy Match to Exploit Apple's Outdated Payment System - Forbes
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Beatmatch Connects People Through Their Taste in Music
GEEKWIRE - Chudi Iregbulem is the founder and CEO of Beatmatch. He spent four years at Amazon Web Services in Seattle as a developer and product manager before leaving in August to pursue his startup full time. Iregbulem is a DJ with a clear appreciation for how relationships can begin with and be enhanced by shared musical interests. Beatmatch works by syncing with users' activity on Spotify or Apple Music and learning what they like to listen to. The app's algorithm finds listeners with similar tastes and makes recommendations for potential connections.
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Tinder's Busiest Day Is on January 2nd
DAILYMAIL.CO.UK - Tinder has revealed that January 2nd 2022 will be its busiest day, and advises logging on from 7pm-10pm, as these are the peak hours. January 2nd is known as Dating Sunday. Following Dating Sunday, Tinder has revealed that members will soon be able to select from a series of '2022 Goals' within the Explore page.
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How to Remove Your Name From Search Websites
CONSUMER REPORTS - Sites like BeenVerified, FastPeopleSearch, and PeopleFinders are part of the vast data broker industry that collects information about people or companies and then sells it. Removing your information from these sites is time-consuming. An easier way to remove your information from these sites is to pay a service to take care of the task. DeleteMe currently removes your information from 36 sites every three months for $129 per year, or $229 per year for two people. Kanary scans 2K sites for your information, and says it has a 70% success rate in removing it. The cost is $89 per year for an individual or $129.99 per year for a family. OneRep currently removes your information from 107 sites for $100 per year (or $180 for a family).
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Dating News Headlines
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- Tinder's Busiest Swiping Day is on January 2nd - Daily Mail
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Apple Must Let Dating Apps Offer Alternate In-app Payment Options
THE VERGE - Apple must allow dating app developers to offer non-Apple payment systems for in-app purchases or face a hefty fine, according to a detailed ruling released today from the Netherlands Authority for Consumers and Markets (ACM). The regulator has been investigating the company's App Store practices since 2019, but Reuters reports that it decided to focus on dating apps after receiving a complaint from Match Group. This decision doesn't apply to other app categories, like games or productivity apps, in the country. If the company fails to do so by January 15th, it faces a 5M Euro-per-week fine, up to a maximum of 50M Euros.
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Why the CEO of Match Group Took a Stand on the Texas Abortion Law
NEW YORK TIMES - When Texas lawmakers this summer passed a restrictive abortion law, Shar Dubey, the CEO of Match Group, confronted it head-on. "As a Texas resident, I am shocked that I now live in a state where women’s reproductive laws are more regressive than most of the world, including India," she said in an email to employees, while announcing she was creating a fund to support Match employees affected by the new law. For Ms. Dubey, who has maintained a relatively low profile, it was an unusual foray into political activism, and a reminder of the power she wields as one of the few top female executives in the technology industry.
Q: You were one of the only women in your class at I.I.T. Was it a welcoming environment?
A: I happened to become the only girl in my class of ~100 boys. I almost quit in the first week. A girl who was a couple of years senior to me told me, "If you're going to quit, who else is going to lose out? Grit it up and go figure out how you're going to survive this." And I did.
Q: How did you make your way to Ohio State for grad school?
A: After I graduated, I went back to my hometown and got a job with the steel company. I saved up $800 and took my first plane ride of my life to Columbus, Ohio.
Q: What was the first job that you got after graduating from Ohio State?
A: It was at an aerospace engineer manufacturing company in rural Pennsylvania.
Q: What was the hardest thing you're dealing with as CEO right now?
A: Maintaining the trust equity that comes with building relationships.
Q: Match has been more welcoming of some online regulations than many of the big tech companies. Can you explain where your positions diverge?
A: For most of Big Tech, privacy comes first. Apple famously doesn't unlock a phone, even for a terrorist. We've always known that safety was existential for our category, because we're introducing strangers on our platform who eventually go meet in real life.
Q: Do you feel like the big tech companies are taking enough responsibility for the real-world consequences of what happens on their platforms?
A: It's super challenging, and in the absence of real laws and enforcement, we're all making stuff up. One of the things which is easier for us, as a one-on-one introduction platform, is that we have a much harder stance on bad behavior. A cuss word is enough for us to kick you out of the platform.
Q: How has dating changed during the pandemic?
A: People became more realistic and honest about themselves and who they were looking for.
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