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Alleged ‘Tinder Swindler' Sued by Diamond Magnate's Family Over Impersonation
According to the Netflix documentary, the man changed his name and claimed to be the son of the diamond tycoon on the dating app Tinder.
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This Tinder User's Plan to Match With Athletes at the Olympic Village Might Have Actually Worked
Who wouldn’t want to swipe right on a potential gold medalist?
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Dating Apps Adding Vaccination Status Badges to Profiles
The White House is pushing a new reason to swipe right: Dating apps are starting to offer vaccination badges and “super swipes” for people who’ve gotten their coronavirus shots
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Police Arrest Utah Man Suspected of Killing His Tinder Date
Police say a Utah man was arrested early Sunday morning on suspicion of murder after he allegedly reported the death of a 25-year-old woman he’d met on the dating app Tinder.
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Dating Apps Like Tinder, Grindr Could Pose National Security Risk: Experts
It is the hope of some dating app users that the connections they form online will last a lifetime.
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FTC Sues Match.com Parent Company; Says It Duped People Into Subscribing
The Federal Trade Commission is suing Match Group for allegedly using notifications about phony profiles to trick consumers into paying for a subscription to dating site Match.com The site lets people create profiles for free but they need to pay for a subscription to respond to messages. Match sent emails to non-subscribers telling them they had received a response on...
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Friends With Benefits: Facebook Dating Launches in US
Facebook is tackling a new frontier: love. Facebook Dating, a matchmaking service the company already offers in Brazil, Canada and 17 other countries , will arrive in the U.S. on Thursday. But after years of privacy missteps by the social network, will people trust it with their love lives? The mobile-only feature is part of Facebook’s ongoing attempt to reach...
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Former Executive Sues Tinder, Claims Sex Assault by Ex-CEO
A former executive at the dating site Tinder sued the company and its former CEO on Monday alleging he sexually assaulted her and the company fired her in retaliation for her complaint.
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Tinder Introduces Safety Feature to Protect LGBTQ Travelers
Tinder unveiled a new personal security feature Wednesday aimed at protecting LGBTQ users when they visit countries where same-sex relationships are outlawed or criminalized, NBC News reported. Upon opening the popular dating app in one of these nearly 70 countries, users will receive a “Traveler Alert” that notifies them that they appear to “be in a place where the LGBTQ...
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George Zimmerman Banned From Tinder Dating App
The ex-neighborhood watch volunteer who killed an unarmed black teen in Florida in 2012 has been banned from the dating app Tinder.
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Emoji Gods Approve Skin-Tone Options for Interracial, Couples of Color
Capping a yearlong project thought up by, of all people, the folks at the swipe-right dating app Tinder, the emoji gods (known as the Unicode Consortium) recently approved the additions in characters technically referred to as people “holding hands.” A new “gender-inclusive” couple emoji was also approved among 230 new characters.
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How to Spruce Up Your Online Dating Profile in Time for Valentine's Day
Learn from Kelly Saks, the Community and Marketing Manager for Bumble, just how to take your dating profile from drab to fab in time for Valentine’s Day.
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Tinder Founders Sue IAC for Billions, Claiming Company ‘Robbed' Them of Stock Options
A group of founders, current executives and early employees of Tinder sued the dating app’s owner IAC and its subsidiary Match Group for at least $2 billion, claiming the defendants “robbed Tinder employees” by cooking financial information, “undermining Tinder’s valuation and unlawfully stripping away their Tinder stock options.”
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Tinder the Dating App Briefly Broke After Facebook Announced New Privacy Rules
Popular dating app Tinder was briefly broken for some users on Wednesday due to outages in its Facebook login process, CNBC reported. Facebook announced new privacy measures Wednesday afternoon in response to the ongoing criticism the tech giant has faced after its handling of user data. Facebook previously allowed third-party apps like Tinder to request user data, but announced it...
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‘Tonight': Lucy Hale Is Obsessed With Hanson and Catfishing People on Tinder
Lucy Hale explains her longtime Hanson obsession, talks about being impersonated on Tinder and chats about her CW series, “Life Sentence.”
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Tinder Can't Charge Older Users More for Premium Services, Calif. Court Rules
A California court ruled this week that Tinder violated state civil rights laws when it charged users over the age of 30 a higher rate for premium services, NBC News reported. Tinder Plus is a premium version of the free dating service app Tinder, and the company charged older users a $19.99 subscription fee to join the premium version. Meanwhile,...
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World's Last Male Rhino Getting Help From Tinder Dating App
There’s just one male northern white rhino left in the world, and he’s getting some help from the Tinder dating app. A Kenyan wildlife conservancy is teaming up with Tinder for a campaign called “The Most Eligible Bachelor in the World,” focusing on the rhino named Sudan. They are raising money for research to save the species from extinction. The...
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Yahoo's New Male CEO Will Get Twice Marissa Mayer's Salary
The guy hired to run what’s left of Yahoo after it imploded under Marissa Mayer will get twice her salary, according to a new filing. The company named board member Thomas McInerney, 52, as the head of its new spinoff company, Altaba, NBC News reported.
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Tinder CEO Admits Addiction to Hookup App on Eve of IPO
An interview published the day before Tinder’s initial public offering found the company’s CEO and co-founder admitting that he’s addicted to the hookup app.