Tinder parent Match Group faces activist campaign from Starboard: ‘Lack of innovation’

Match Group, the parent company of Tinder and Hinge, is facing a campaign from activist investors who are calling for the dating app giant to either overhaul its business or consider taking it private. Starboard Value said on Tuesday it had acquired a 6.6 percent stake in Match Group and is in discussions with the […]
Blaze Bernstein flirted with his killer on Tinder

A gay Jewish teen living in California rants to friends that having sex with a neo-Nazi former classmate will be “legendary.” He is currently on trial for a murder committed more than six years ago. Blaise Bernstein, 19, a sophomore at the University of Pennsylvania, first met Samuel Woodward, then 20, on Tinder in 2017. […]
Tinder addiction is real â I ended up in therapy because of it

A British man says he had to seek treatment for his Tinder addiction after swiping through 500 profiles a day. Ed Turner, 27, has confessed to using the popular dating app compulsively just for the rush he felt when his profile was liked by fairer men and women. He confessed that he had no intention […]
Tinder to require video selfies to verify user IDs amid dating-app crime

Tinder announced Tuesday that it has plans for what’s next. Expand identity verification requirements Crimes on dating apps are on the rise, with some asking users to send selfie videos as artificial intelligence makes it harder to tell who’s real. The world’s most popular dating app said new features, scheduled to be released in the […]
Man charged with rape, robbery of men he met on Tinder in Prince George’s County | FOX 5 DC

A man faces several charges for using a dating app to set up meetings with victims who he allegedly raped or robbed in Prince … source
Tinder, Hinge, League dating apps encourage ‘compulsive use’ with ‘predatory’ business model: lawsuit

Match Group on Wednesday said its dating apps Tinder, Hinge and The League are designed to addict users and make more money for the company, rather than helping them build relationships. It was sued in a proposed class action lawsuit. The plaintiffs allege that Match’s “predatory” business model rewards people seeking love and afraid of […]
Dating while conservative: 4 Tinder alternatives

Researching dating apps for married people is like playing a flight simulator.no one knows what it is actually means? I met my wife the old-fashioned way, so everything is brand new. It turns out I was ahead of my time. Here are the traditional demographics for online dating from She's 18 to She's 29. I […]