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| 01.04.2026 | Corazon Capital: $100 Million Fund IV Raised To Back AI-Native Consumer Companies | Corazon Capital, a Chicago-based venture capital firm focused on early-stage investing, announced the final close of its fourth fund at $100 million. The new fund will target pre-seed, seed, and Series A startups, with a particular emphasis... |
| 19.03.2026 | The Government Uses Targeted Advertising to Track Your Location. Here’s What We Need to Do. | We’ve all had the unsettling experience of seeing an ad online that reveals just how much advertisers know about our lives. You’re right to be disturbed. Those very same online ad systems have been used by the government to warrantlessly tr... |
| 27.02.2026 | NYSE Content Update: Grindr Reports 28% Full Year Revenue Growth in Q4 Earnings | NYSE issues a pre-market daily advisory direct from the trading floor.
NEW YORK, Feb. 27, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) provides a daily pre-market update directly from the NYSE Trading Floor. Access today's NYSE P... |
| 27.02.2026 | LGBTQ+ dating app Grindr beats revenue estimates, bets on AI to drive growth | Feb 26 : Grindr on Thursday reported fourth-quarter revenue above estimates and expanded its share repurchase program by $400 million, as the LGBTQ+ dating app bets on artificial intelligence-powered features to drive growth, sending its sh... |
| 25.02.2026 | Malaysia blocks same-sex dating sites Grindr and Blued, mulls legal measures to curb LGBTQ+ dating apps | KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia has blocked same-sex dating websites Grindr and Blued and will study legal measures to curb the presence of LGBTQ+ dating apps from app stores, its communications minister said on Wednesday (Feb 25).
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| 26.01.2026 | Catfishing may have targeted Larimer County LGBTQ residents, judge finds | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
An 8th Judicial District Court judge found probable cause against the suspect accused of catfishing people on the LGBTQ dating app Grindr and then trapping them in his vehicle in Loveland and Fort ... |
| 29.12.2025 | Трафик Cloudflare в России за полгода упал на 30% | По информации СМИ, трафик Cloudflare (компания, поставщик услуг DNS, CDN и защиты от DDoS-атак) в России упал на 30%. Больше всего проблем возникло в информационных сетях малого бизнеса в РФ, зависящего от зарубежного трафика и бесплатного ... |
| 23.12.2025 | FBI: Lyft driver terrorized by escaped Georgia inmates before she was rescued in Florida | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
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ATLANTA (AP) — Three inmates who escaped from a jail east of Atlanta, including a murder suspect, commandeered a terrified Lyft driver’s car to reach south Florida before she was res... |
| 01.12.2025 | Grindr Board Rejects Deal
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| 11.11.2025 | Apple removes gay dating apps from Chinese App Store at Beijing’s request | Apple has confirmed that it removed the popular gay dating apps Blued and Finka from its Chinese iOS store in compliance with an order from the Cyberspace Administration of China.
The country’s app space has become increasingly restrictive ... |
| 03.11.2025 | Grindr’s Top Investors Offer $3.5 Billion Deal
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| 01.11.2025 | Evolve Bank CEO fired after propositioning FBI agent who pretended to be a teen boy | Evolve Bank & Trust has fired CEO Bob Hartheimer after just three months at the helm.
Hartheimer was arrested last week for attempted production of child pornography and transfer of obscene material to a minor, court records show.
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| 25.10.2025 | Grindr shareholders offer to take dating app private for $3.46 billion | Two Grindr board members, part of an investor group that owns more than 60 per cent of the company, have proposed to take one of the world's most recognized dating platforms for the LGBTQIA+ community private for about $3.46 billion.
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| 02.10.2025 | Grindr names veteran executive John North as finance chief | Grindr names veteran executive John North as finance chief
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| 27.08.2025 | Report: 75% of Dating Apps Unsafe, Flunk Cybersecurity | Using a dating app doesn’t just run the risk of a broken heart, it might also mean handing over your most intimate data to platforms with weak cybersecurity, according to new research from the Business Digital Index.
After analysing twenty-... |
| 09.08.2025 | This 30-year-old founder was so fatigued by dating apps, she started hosting IRL events: ‘I got to dating burnout’ | Lucy Rout is not your typical entrepreneur.
The 30-year-old Londoner — known for going viral for skiing off an icy slope in a bikini and for consulting her Instagram followers on whether she should fly 10,000 miles for a fourth date with a ... |
| 01.08.2025 | Commentary: Are height filters on dating apps harmless or discriminatory? | Listen
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| 28.07.2025 |
Cramer’s Lightning Round: Chubb over Brighthouse Financial | Monday - Friday, 6:00 - 7:00 PM ET
It’s that time again! “Mad Money” host Jim Cramer rings the lightning round bell, which means he’s giving his answers to callers’ stock questions at rapid speed.
Brighthouse Financial: “I’m worried about B... |
| 24.07.2025 | Last Call for Online Age Checks as Deadline Looms | Ofcom’s age check verification requirements will come into force tomorrow, the 25th of July, as the regulator prepares to enforce the new regulation under the Online Safety Act.
Sites and apps which allow harmful content – including pornogr... |
| 02.06.2025 | Mighty Hoopla 2025 review: a community event in the truest sense | Mighty Hoopla 2025 review ★★★★★: Go for the vibe, which is unmatched
It’s ironic that Mighty Hoopla 2025 was almost closed down for being a nuisance to the local area. While it irked some residents, inside the walls it is one of the truest ... |
| 02.06.2025 | NYSE Content Advisory: Pre-Market update + U.S. – China trade tensions escalate | NEW YORK, June 2, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) provides a daily pre-market update directly from the NYSE Trading Floor. Access today's NYSE Pre-market update for market insights before trading begins.
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| 03.05.2025 | The Emotional Web: Navigating the AI Companionship Landscape | In the digital age, relationships are evolving. AI companions are no longer just a figment of science fiction. They are here, and they are changing the way we connect. The landscape is a regulatory Wild West, where emotional bonds are forge... |
| 26.04.2025 | AI chatbots want you hooked – maybe too hooked | AI companions programmed to forge emotional bonds are no longer confined to movie scripts. They are here, operating in a regulatory Wild West.
One app, Botify AI, recently drew scrutiny for featuring avatars of young actors sharing “hot pho... |
| 27.03.2025 | Dating apps are dialing up in-person events as Gen Z struggle to build connections | It may come as no surprise that Gen Z, the online generation, are increasingly struggling with loneliness — but an unlikely source is coming to their aid.
Dating app giant Hinge on Thursday announced a $1 million fund for social groups in N... |
| 20.03.2025 | The Road to E-Commerce Success: Navigating the Digital Marketplace in 2025 | In the vast ocean of e-commerce, many ships set sail each year. Some navigate smoothly, while others sink before they even leave the harbor. The difference? A solid foundation and a clear strategy. As we move into 2025, the digital marketpl... |
| 20.03.2025 | The Cost of Waiting: Why Early Monetization is Key for Startups | In the world of startups, timing is everything. Many founders believe that building a large user base is the first step to success. They chase numbers, thinking that a flood of users will magically translate into profits. This is a mirage. ... |
| 20.03.2025 | The Power of User-Generated Content: Building Trust in a Digital Age | In the digital marketplace, trust is the currency that drives consumer behavior. Brands today face a unique challenge: how to stand out in a sea of polished marketing campaigns. Enter user-generated content (UGC). This powerful tool is resh... |
| 20.03.2025 | The Digital Landscape: Navigating the Path to Online Success | In the ever-evolving world of business, the digital landscape is a vast ocean. For many, it’s a treacherous sea filled with both opportunities and pitfalls. As we sail into 2025, the importance of online visibility cannot be overstated. Bus... |
| 19.03.2025 | Too Many Founders Are Making This Critical Mistake — And It's Costing Them Are you making the mistake of waiting to monetize your digital product? Uncover four compelling reasons why starting early ca... | If you are the founder or CEO of a tech startup or a business represented by a digital product, then, as an entrepreneur, first and foremost, you know that any business must be profitable. Otherwise, it simply won't survive.
I have observed... |
| 26.02.2025 | Musubi: $5 Million (Seed) Raised To Transform Trust & Safety AI | Musubi, an AI platform transforming Trust & Safety through adaptive AI content moderation, announced it has raised $5 million in an oversubscribed seed round. This funding was led by J2 Ventures with participation from Shakti Ventures, ... |
| 21.02.2025 | Musubi, AI content moderation startup, raises $5 million in seed funding | Musubi, a startup that uses artificial intelligence to moderate online content, has raised $5 million in a seed round, the company told CNBC.
The startup claims its PolicyAI and AIMod AI systems work together to deliver decisions with an er... |
| 19.02.2025 | Africa: Dating Apps' Lack of Safeguards Put LGBTQ+ Africans At Risk | What's the context? LGBTQ+ users from Egypt to Nigeria risk entrapment and surveillance when online dating.
Online dating offers crucial connections
Digital platforms exploited by criminals, governments
Safeguards specifically for LGBTQ+ pe... |
| 03.12.2024 | Исследователи: популярность приложений для знакомств снизилась из-за зумеров | Исследователи британского агентства Ofcom заметили, что популярность приложений для знакомств начала снижаться. Всё дело в поколении зумеров, которые чаще выбирают личные знакомства и свидания в офлайне.
Авторы исследования отмечают, что ве... |
| 08.11.2024 | Startups Still Like Offbeat Spelling. AI Voice Apps Not So Much. | 2 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn
Unconventional spelling has long been a go-to route for startups seeking a name that’s both recognizable and unique.
Sometimes it works out. Companies like Lyft, Grindr and Scribd built businesses me... |
| 28.10.2024 | Casual Encounters vs. Traditional Dating: How Online Platforms Are Changing Relationship Norms | Share
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So, the internet came along and flipped the dating on its head. Meeting someone through friends or at a local hangout? That’s old news. Now, it’s all about connecting online, anytime, anywhere. With just a few ... |
| 25.09.2024 | Bloks.app Raises US$1.5M in Seed Funding | Blocks.app, an Ottawa, Ontario, Canada-based provider of an AI-powered platform designed to eliminate tedious busywork for investment teams, raised US$1.5M in Seed funding.
The round was led by Storytime Capital and Mistral Ventures, with p... |
| 21.09.2024 | Commentary: Time is running out for TikTok in the US | LONDON: It is a sign of our fungible times that an internet platform that hosts viral short-form videos of lip-syncing teenagers, gurgling babies and beauty tutorials can be deemed a national security threat.
But this week, TikTok urged a U... |
| 01.09.2024 | Trip.com co-founder, Grindr board member among SG’s 50 richest | News
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The 2024 Forbes list of Singapore’s 50 richest people includes two fresh faces, both expats-turned-citizens.... |
| 31.07.2024 | Falha em apps de encontros permitia descobrir localização de usuário | Ataque é rudimentar e difícil, mas poderia ser usado por stalkers em aplicativos de relacionamento (ilustração: Vítor Pádua/Tecnoblog)
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| 29.07.2024 | Olympics | A record 191 openly LGBTQ+ athletes are competing in the 2024 Olympics | Organizers of the Paris Olympics have underscored diversity and inclusion as major themes, showcasing drag queens and refugee athletes in Friday’s opening ceremony. That has received some blowback from religious conservatives.
“In our Olymp... |
| 17.07.2024 | Tinder's New AI-Powered Feature Will Help You Choose the Most Appealing Photos For Your Profile | By Joseph Henry
Published Jul 17, 2024 9:36AM EDT
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Tinder is waving goodbye to blurry selfies and awkward profile pictures with the launc... |
| 10.07.2024 | Bumble Makes It Simpler for Users to Report Fake Profiles That Use AI-Generated Photos, Videos | By Jace Dela Cruz
Published Jul 10, 2024 9:33AM EDT
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Bumble has introduced a new feature that addresses concerns over AI-generated profil... |
| 26.06.2024 | A.Team Launches "Team Formation AI" to Hire Specialized Tech Talent in Minutes -- Not Months | Corporate leaders can instantly assemble teams of elite tech talent from A.Team's growing network of over 11,000 independent product builders
NEW YORK, June 26, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, A.Team unveiled the first-ever Team Formation AI — ... |
| 13.06.2024 | Тиндер в мире ИИ: пять способов, как нейросети могут помочь вам наладить личную жизнь | Ежегодный опрос "Singles in America" от Института Кинси показал, что 14% представителей поколения Z и 6% всех одиноких людей уже используют ИИ в качестве помощника для знакомств.
Вот несколько способов, к которым прибегают уже сей... |
| 11.06.2024 | Inside the Grindr app relaunch: ‘We’re making the hook up easier than ever’ | - |
| 03.06.2024 | How to see Grindr's Pride bus in Phoenix | figcaption>span]:font-sans">
Grindr is celebrating Pride with "the great American road trip (but make it gay)," with a special stop in Phoenix on Monday.
The big picture: The dating app launched a bus tour that is stopp... |
| 29.05.2024 | TikTok Law Threatening A Ban If The App Isn’t Sold Raises First Amendment Concerns | TikTok, the short-video company with Chinese roots, did the most American thing possible on May 7, 2024: It sued the U.S. government, in the person of Attorney General Merrick Garland, in federal court. The suit claims the federal law that ... |
| 22.05.2024 | ICO Looks Into Microsoft’s New Recall Feature | The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) is looking into Microsoft’s new feature which takes consistent screenshots of user’s devices every few seconds.
The new feature, Recall, will encrypt and store these screenshots on a person’s lapt... |
| 22.05.2024 | Tired of dating apps? You're not alone; survey says 79% Gen Z feel the same | - |
| 12.05.2024 | Revolutionary AI-Powered Dating Concierges to Take Bumble by Storm, Says Founder | By Aldohn Domingo
Published May 12, 2024 8:56PM EDT
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Bumble's founder is reportedly envisioning using artificial intelligence in the dati... |
| 06.05.2024 | Stop Expecting Tech Companies To Provide ‘Consequences’ For Criminal Behavior; That’s Not Their Job | Whose job is it to provide consequences when someone breaks the law?
It seems like this issue shouldn’t be that complicated. We expect law enforcement to deal with it when someone breaks the law. Not private individuals or organizations. Be... |
| 03.05.2024 | Match-owned Archer hits over half a million installs amid dating app slump | It’s been almost one year since Match Group announced the launch of Archer, the online dating giant’s first app for gay, bi, and queer men. Since rolling out to New York last June, Archer has been downloaded more than 685,000 times, accordi... |
| 27.04.2024 | TikTok resolution may use Grindr's path as precedent | figcaption>span]:font-sans">
When a group of investors bought LGBTQ+ dating app Grindr from Beijing Kunlun Tech in 2020, the key to getting U.S. regulatory blessing was to sever connections to China and establish full American de... |
| 24.04.2024 | Grindr Hit By UK Lawsuit For Reckless Sale Of Sensitive User Data | We’ve noted repeatedly how the mass hyperventilation about TikTok is a giant distraction from the country’s broader failures on consumer privacy; namely our corrupt inability to pass even a baseline privacy law for the internet era, and our... |
| 23.04.2024 | Dating App Grindr Sued for Disclosing Sensitive Information, HIV Status of Users | Aldohn Domingo, Tech Times 23 April 2024, 12:04 am
Dating application Grindr is reportedly being sued in the United Kingdom for sharing sensitive personal data, including health information such as the HIV status of users, without their con... |
| 23.04.2024 | Mozilla finds that most dating apps are not great guardians of user data | Dating apps are not following great privacy practices and are collecting more data than ever in order to woo Gen Z users, a new study by Mozilla pointed out. Researchers reviewed dating apps in terms of privacy in 2021. In the latest report... |
| 22.04.2024 | Grindr facing UK data lawsuit for allegedly sharing users' HIV status | LONDON :Gay dating app Grindr is facing a mass data protection lawsuit in London from hundreds of users who allegedly had their private information, including HIV status, shared with third parties without consent, a law firm said on Monday.... |
| 17.04.2024 | Facemoji Keyboard Uplevels AI Feature To Help Spark Connections | New Rizz Master boosts relationship acumen through customized dating prompts
SUNNYVALE, Calif., April 17, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Facemoji Keyboard, the world's first content-creation keyboard with rich in-app resources, announced today a new ... |
| 12.04.2024 | Ctrl-Alt-Speech: Watch Out, AI Is Getting More Persuasive | Ctrl-Alt-Speech is a weekly podcast about the latest news in online speech, from Mike Masnick and Everything in Moderation‘s Ben Whitelaw.
Subscribe now on Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify, Pocket Casts, YouTube, or your podcast app of cho... |
| 24.03.2024 | Grindr and Burnett Foundation Aotearoa partner to offer free HIV self-test kits in New Zealand | Grindr, the world’s largest social network for the LGBTQ+ community, has announced a new partnership with Burnett Foundation Aotearoa to provide free HIV self-test kits to its users in New Zealand. This collaboration is part of Grindr for E... |
| 24.03.2024 | Editorials | Views from the nation’s press | The Chicago Tribune on how the clock is ticking for Chinese ownership of TikTok:
There are any number of reasons to despise TikTok, the mind-numbing entity best known not for keeping friends in touch but an endless stream of short-form vide... |
| 21.03.2024 | Solana memecoin hype continues, Backpack’s beta phase was a success and Starbucks axes its NFT program | Welcome to TechCrunch Crypto, formerly known as Chain Reaction.
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| 15.12.2023 | Grindr Forms Exclusive Partnership with Ex-Human to Enhance User Experience Using Artificial Intelligence | Grindr Inc. announced it has signed an exclusive partnership with Ex-Human, a leading provider of generative artificial intelligence and machine learning models, to fuel the app company’s in-house artificial intelligence capabilities and en... |
| 10.05.2022 | Grindr to Go Public with $2.1 Billion Valuation and Merge With Tiga | Sophie Webster, Tech Times 10 May 2022, 03:05 pm
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| 09.05.2022 | Dating App Grindr Going Public Via SPAC Deal | Queer dating app Grindr is planning to go public by merging with a Singapore-based blank-check company in a deal that would value the company at roughly $2.1 billion.
West Hollywood-based Grindr said Monday that it has agreed to merge with ... |
| 10.02.2022 | Dating app Grindr is ramping up privacy to protect LGTBQ athletes competing in the Beijing Olympics from discrimination and harassment | In the Tokyo Summer Olympics in 2021, videos were posted on TikTok with Olympians' Grindr profiles.
For the Beijing Winter Games, Grindr disabled the "explore" function for people within the Olympic Village.
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| 09.02.2022 | Why a safe metaverse is a must and how to build welcoming virtual worlds | If harassment in virtual worlds is anything like what people have to put up with now, no one will want to hang out in these spaces for very long. Tiffany Xingyu Wang, chief strategy and marketing officer at Spectrum Labs, predicts that the ... |
| 21.11.2021 | A gay college student says he still uses Grindr after surviving horrific torture at the hands of a man he met on the app — but he takes steps to protect himself | was hospitalized in June 2020 after he met a man he’d been talking to on Grindr. Holden White
Holden White says he was tortured by a man he met on Grindr last year.
White said that despite his traumatic ordeal, he still uses Grindr and othe... |
| 21.11.2021 | A gay college student says he still uses Grindr after surviving horrific torture at the hands of a man he met on the app — but he takes steps to protect himself | Holden White says he was tortured by a man he met on Grindr last year.
White said that despite his traumatic ordeal, he still uses Grindr and other LGBTQ dating apps.
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| 21.11.2021 | A gay college student says he still uses Grindr after surviving horrific torture at the hands of a man he met on the app — but he takes steps to protect himself | Tech A gay college student says he still uses Grindr after surviving horrific torture at the hands of a man he met on the app — but he takes steps to protect himself
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| 21.07.2021 | This outed priest’s story is a warning for everyone about the need for data privacy laws | One of the worst-case scenarios for the barely regulated and secretive location data industry has become reality: Supposedly anonymous gay dating app data was apparently sold off and linked to a Catholic priest, who then resigned from his j... |
| 01.07.2021 | What private data does your Tinder, Grindr or Bumble keep | July 1, 2021 12 min read
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In the quarantines brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic , many internet users turned to dating apps to... |
| 03.06.2021 | BestApp.com Recognizes Best Hookup Apps for The Year 2021 | LOS ANGELES (PRWEB) June 03, 2021
BestApp.com, an in-depth guide for the latest mobile app reviews and technology trends, has announced the best hookup apps of 2021. The study prioritized platforms with robust safety and security tools as w... |
| 03.05.2021 | How a Norwegian Government Report Shows the Limits of CFIUS Data Reviews | Amid growing attention to data and national security threats from China, a recent Norwegian government report sheds light on the limits of a U.S. government process for tackling them: the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States... |
| 12.12.2020 | Covid-19 Is Changing How Apps And Entrepreneurs Play Cupid This Christmas | In addition to Grindr, options for LGBTQ singles to find that special someone online are growing, as ... [+] are matchmaking services. getty |
| 14.07.2020 | Anti-LGBTQ regimes are surveilling dating apps to prosecute people across the globe. Here's how each dating app's security stacks up. | LGBTQ dating apps collect and store information on their users, like all apps. But they come with unique security risks because if it falls into the wrong hands, that data could be used to "out" people — or, in some countries, to ... |
| 28.05.2020 | 'A Very Precarious Situation': How Trump's Order Could Impact The Fates of Snap, TikTok and Grindr | An executive order that could enable federal regulators to punish social media companies for how they moderate content on their sites would have far-reaching impacts, especially on smaller companies with an online presence, including TikTok... |
| 29.03.2019 | LGBTQ Community May Face Privacy Breach if Grindr Isn’t Sold | The international LGBTQ community is facing a major privacy threat, and the American government is stepping in.
The Chinese company Beijing Kunlun Tech Co Ltd completed its acquisition of Grindr in 2018, and is now being forced to sell the ... |
| 27.03.2019 | Report: Grindr’s Chinese owner Kunlun is selling the dating app after CFIUS raised personal data concerns | Grindr, the popular dating app for gay, bisexual, transgender and queer people, looks like it might be changing hands again, a year after it was acquired at a valuation of $245 million. According to a report in Reuters, Grindr’s owner Kunlu... |
| 25.09.2018 | Grindr Playing DMCA Whac-A-Mole With Privacy Threat ‘Fuckr’ | Grindr bills itself as the “largest social networking app for gay, bi, trans and queer people.” Back in March the company faced a crisis with reports of security breaches with privacy implications.
The first involved the use of a third-part... |
| 22.06.2018 | Congressional candidate using hookup apps to recruit supporters | More On: congress
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| 22.06.2018 | Congressional candidate using hookup apps to recruit supporters | More On: congress
'Routine': Milley claims China calls 'perfectly within the duties' of his role 13 troops killed in Kabul in line for Congressional Gold Medals AOC's $35K Met ball ticket, 'Tax the Rich' gown spark new 'GALA' law push Democ... |
| 04.04.2018 | Grindr Sharing Sensitive Data with Third Parties | Popular gay dating app, Grindr, has come under fire for sharing data that reveals users’ HIV status with third-party companies. The dating app, which has around 3.6 million active daily users, launched a new feature in 2017 that allowed use... |
| 03.04.2018 | Grindr hit with privacy complaint in Europe over sharing user data | The Norwegian Consumer Council has filed a privacy complaint about Grindr, arguing it’s in breach of national and European data protection laws after it emerged the dating app has been sharing personal information about its users with third... |
| 09.01.2018 | Grindr CEO and founder departs as China’s Kunlun completes acquisition | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Grindr, the LGBTQ social network and dating app, is now 100 percent owned by Chinese mobile gaming company Kunlun Group.
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| 09.01.2018 | Grindr CEO and founder departs as China’s Kunlun completes acquisition | Grindr, the LGBTQ social network and dating app, is now 100 percent owned by Chinese mobile gaming company Kunlun Group.
The news comes seven months after Grindr revealed it would be selling itself outright to Kunlun. At the time, Grindr sa... |
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| 21.11.2017 | Grindr updates its app to be more inclusive of transgender and non-binary users | Grindr is updating its popular queer dating app to be more inclusive of transgender and non-binary users. In an announcement timed to mark the end of Transgender Awareness Week, Grindr said changes will include new profile fields for gender... |
| 15.08.2017 | Grindr launches INTO, a new media property | If content is king these days, then everyone really wants to wear the crown.
The latest business to throw itself into the media melee is Grindr, the popular gay social networking app which has just launched a new media site called INTO.
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| 05.02.2017 | Grindr Expands Its Diverse and Sexy Photography Program | This article contains adult content.
In 2016, Grindr, the dating app that came to notoriety for being able to facilitate hookups between gay men, executed a string of moves to alter where it sits in the marketplace. After linking up with PR... |
| 16.09.2016 | Grindr wants tech people to combat LGBTQ inequalities | Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer people make up nearly 40% of the 1.6 million youth who experience homelessness every year. Meanwhile, trans people are almost four times more likely than the average American to be living on les... |
| 16.01.2016 | M&A roundup - week ending 1/16/16 | Microsoft bought Event Zero; Bloomberg acquired Netbox Blue; Distil Networks purchased ScrapeSentry
Beijing Kunlun Tech, a Chinese gaming company, acquired a majority stake in Grindr, the social network dating app aimed at gay men. It bough... |
| 12.01.2016 | Grindr takes first outside investment, sells 60% stake | The company is now majority owned by Beijing Kunlun Tech, a Chinese gaming company
For its entire lifespan so far, Grindr, the social network dating app aimed at gay men, had never taken any outside funding, bootstrapping it for the last se... |
| 12.01.2016 |
Grindr Sells Majority Stake To Chinese Gaming Firm For $93M
| Los Angeles-based mobile dating app developer Grindr has raised $93M for its gay dating apps, from Chinese gaming firm Beijing Kunlun Tech Co.. Grindr said late Monday that it sold a 60% stake in the company to Beijing Kunlun Tech Co., valu... |
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| 12.01.2016 | Grindr bootstrapped for 7 years before landing today’s $93 million investment | In a period when venture capital investment seems to be flowing like champagne at an oil tycoon’s yacht party (though perhaps not for much longer), Grindr is a refreshing exception — and, arguably, a beacon of hope for tomorrow’s startups.
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In a period when venture capital investment seems to be flowing like champagne at an oil tycoon’s yacht party (though perhaps not for m... |
| 12.01.2016 | Funding Daily: Today’s tech funding news, in one place | Here’s a list of today’s tech funding stories, updated as the day unfolds. Tip us here if you have a deal to share. Scottish tech titan Skyscanner raises $192 million to grow its travel search engine globally
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| 11.01.2016 | Chinese Gaming Firm Buys 60% Of Gay Dating App Grindr For $93M | Grindr, the social network for gay men, has sold a majority 60 percent stake to Chinese gaming company Beijing Kunlun Tech for $93 million. The deal, which values six-year-old Grindr at $155 million, is the first time that the U.S. company ... |
| 28.07.2015 | Uber для всего: 10 необычных стартапов, использующих в описании название такси-сервиса | 28 июля холдинг Rambler&Co объявил о покупке биржи недвижимости «АгентОн», чтобы с его помощью создать собственный сервис для продажи и аренды жилья. Новую платформу, запуск которой намечен на осень 2015 года, в компании позиционировали... |
