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10 Stories Not To Miss On GDI This Week

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  1. 10 Things We Learned At The GDI Amsterdam Conference – Highlights from the day of insights & debate in our roundup of last week’s conference. We also posted pictures and a video from the European conference.
  2. Fling.com Breached As Hacker Sells 40m User Data On Dark Web – Adult site confirmed the massive hack, saying the breach happened back in 2011.
  3. Chinese Tinder Tantan Raises Massive $32m In Funding – Whopping funding round for Tinder clone as it hits 2.5m daily active users.
  4. Happn Rolls Out ‘See You There’ Feature To Help Users Arrange Offline Meetings – New feature sees thriving French app dip toes into “on-demand” offline-focused dating.
  5. Spark Networks Continue To Suffer Financial Woes In 2016 – Company continues to lose money despite best efforts to push user growth.
  6. Research Containing Data Of 70,000 OkCupid Users Removed Over Copyright Claim – Researchers posted the data saying it was already public, but it has now been taken down after OkCupid filed a copyright notice.
  7. These Are The Most Common Reasons Why Startups Fail – Researchers analysed over 200 founder postmortems to find out the most common reasons startups fail.
  8. US Man Facing 32 Years In Prison For Holding Tinder Date Captive & Beating Her For Six Days – The 30-year-old man held the student captive for six days after their second date.
  9. Founders Of Selfie Group Dating App INSTNT Focusing On Student Cities To Grow App – GDI interview with the two founders Chris Seddon and James Gee who want to put spontaneity back into online dating with their selfie-based group dating app.
  10. David Cameron Joining Tinder To Reach Young People About Voting In EU Referendum – Downing Street is prepping a campaign on the dating app to get people to register to vote.

 

Simon Edmunds

Simon is the former editor of Global Dating Insights. Born in Newcastle, he has an English degree from Queen Mary, London and after working for the NHS, trained as a journalist with the Press Association. Passionate about music, journalism and Newcastle United.

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