10 Stories Not To Miss On GDI This Week
- New eHarmony CEO Modernises Product, Ditching Questionnaire & Adding Real-Time Chat – Most significant is that new customers will no longer have to complete the 149-question survey in order to enter the platform.
- Tinder Launches New App For Apple TV – The new release lets singles hook up their dating account to an Apple TV and swipe through profiles with the remote.
- Bumble Invests In New UK Gay Dating App Chappy – The app, which is coming soon for iOS and Android, says it will help users find “Mr Right or your Mr Right Now”.
- Ashley Madison Owner Settles FTC Investigation With Reduced $1.7m Fine – The fine is a discounted penalty that will end the FTC and State Attorneys-General investigation into the Toronto company.
- Spanish White Label Platform OleDating Sees 1000% Revenue Increase In A Year – The platform has also recorded an 875% increase in signups over the same period — September to November.
- Jailed Scammer Ordered To Pay Back £200,000 To Dating Scam Victims – Tosin Femi Olasemo, 37, pretended to be a US Army officer stationed in Afghanistan called Captain Morgan Travis.
- Matrimony Postpones Plans To IPO – Expecting to be listed by November, the business was said to be looking to raise around Rs 1,000 crore ($150m).
- Breaking Bad Killer Who Dismembered A London Police Officer Sentenced To Life In Prison – Stefano Brizzi admitted dismembering Gordon Semple after the two met on Grindr for a night of drug-fuelled sex.
- ShowReal Lets Singles Show The Real Them With Short Snippets Of Video – ShowReal hopes that using video will help to eliminate the disappointment of dates not looking like their online profile pictures.
- Tinder Reveals The Most Right-Swiped Names Of 2016 – Tinder has decided to release a list of the top ten most right-swiped names for both sexes on the app.
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