Good morning. In honor of Perplexity’s unsolicited $34.5 billion bid to acquire Google’s Chrome web browser amid U.S. antitrust scrutiny—a figure well beyond the San Francisco AI startup’s $18 billion valuation!—five things I’d like to place an unsolicited bid on with someone else’s money: But please, Marc—keep the disco ball. Today’s tech news below. —Andrew…
It was inevitable. After signing a deal with OpenAI in 2024, Tinder is now featuring AI characters complete with generated personalities. It’s not to replace a potential date, but act as the punching bag for your pick-up lines and desperate pleas for a real relationship. Only using it quickly reminded me of how dating apps…
Whitney Wolfe Herd returned as Bumble CEO amid big leadership changes at the dating app. Last month, rival company Match Group also replaced its CEO. The new CEOs are highlighting changes for trust and safety. The owners of some of the world’s biggest dating apps — Match Group and Bumble — just went through big…
Tinder hopes to reverse its ongoing decline in active users by turning to AI. In the coming quarter, the Match-owned dating app will roll out new AI-powered features for discovery and matching. The addition aims to offer fatigued singles an alternative to the “swipe” that defined the dating app in its earlier days and influenced…
Jess Evans founded Bored Of Dating Apps after being constantly disappointed by dating apps. Her events offer an alternative to meeting someone online, focusing on real-life connections. There’s one very important rule: no ghosting each other. When Jess Evans was going through a horrible breakup a few years ago, she did what many people do…
At 50, Jennie Young started using several dating apps and felt that they were all toxic. The Burned Haystack Dating Method began as an academic project and now has a Facebook group with over 128,000 members. Young, a college professor, has advice for the companies behind dating apps. Thanks for signing up! Access your favorite…
Shares of dating app company Match (MTCH) fell 18.7% in the afternoon session after the company reported underwhelming third-quarter earnings that has the market questioning its turnaround story. Match provided revenue guidance for the next quarter which missed analysts’ expectations, and its revenue growth was quite weak. The company stated that “Tinder MAU was down…