10 Stories Not To Miss On GDI This Week
- Time Running Out To Enter Spotlight On Startups Competition – The event, which takes place on the 27th October, will see the hottest new dating startups pitch & get questioned by attendees & experts.
- Tinder Launches New Voting Tool Stacks For iMessage – The feature lets you take a series of photos, combine them into a “stack”, and send to your friends, who can vote on them.
- Bumble Is Launching New Selfie Verification System – The feature works by showing users a picture of someone posing in a certain position before asking them to replicate it.
- Former Mobile Dating Star Hinge Is About To Return With A Rebuilt Product – The rebuild comes aster Hinge CEO & founder Justin McLeod said the company was “not living up to our mission”.
- Seeking Arrangement Grilled On Good Morning Britain’s Sugar Daddy Segment Today – The section spoke with two female “sugar babies” and sugar daddy “Darren” as well as the company’s spokesperson.
- Tinder Joins Female Social App Hey! Vina As Investor & Partner – Tinder said it will help VINA with “first-hand knowledge and industry connections” to help it become a market-leading global platform.
- Gamified Dating App ooOo® Sees 324% Signup Increase With Android And Mobile Web Launch – The app was back in July, with founder David Minns having taught himself how to code for iOS using YouTube videos.
- Read This Excellent Article On The Dangers Of VC Funding – Eric Paley, a managing partner at Founder Collective, recently laid out some of these problems in an excellent opinion article for TechCrunch.
- Twitter Finally Rolls Out New 140 Character Limit – Now @ names, media attachments and quoted tweets will no longer count towards the 140 limit.
- London Startup VieLoco Brings Live Video Streaming Between Matches -The app sets itself apart from other dating platforms by allowing users to video call their matches and speak to them in real time.
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