10 Stories Not To Miss On GDI This Week
- Social Concierge Founder Wants To Marry Elite Dating With Private Networking – We speak to founder Nana Wereko-Brobby about her vision for the “dating-meets-networking” service.
- How Profile Verification Helps Ukrainian Scammers Defraud Millions Out Of Hopeful Singles Part 2 – The second part of Elena Petrova’s fantastic guest blog about PPL scams and their prevalence around Ukraine.
- Russian Facial Recognition App Being Used To Expose Porn Stars & Sex Workers – The new Russian facial recognition app FindFace is being used for shady purposes by unknown campaigners.
- Parship & FriendScout24 Win Top Honours In German Institute Study On Best Dating Brands – Recent study tested 15 German sites on various areas of quality & security.
- Match Group Beat All Expectations With Q1 Results, With 1m Now Paying For Tinder – Excellent first quarter results for The Match Group show that Tinder is contributing strong growth in terms of paying members.
- 3nder Incognito Mode Lets Users Hide From Facebook Friends, After Recent Tinder Social Scare – The premium feature lets singles hide their profile from anyone they are friends with on the social network.
- Judge Bans Ashley Madison Users From Citing Hacked Documents In Lawsuits – Another huge blow for the claimants in the on-going Ashley Madison court case.
- Tinder’s CRM Tool Appboy Raises $20m – The New York-based company is also used by SoundCloud, Domino’s and Opera.
- Date Feedback & Mobility Data Is Next Big Thing In Online Dating, Says The Match Group’s Sam Yagan – The Match Group Vice Chair was interviewed at the recent Milken Global Conference about the future of online dating.
- GDI Proud To Welcome Scamalytics As GDI Amsterdam Silver Sponsors – For our conference next week, which takes place in Amsterdam on 12th May.
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