Online dating Growth, Regulation, Future challenges
Policy wonk Elena Magrina at Inline Policy has written an article about regulation and the online dating industry, with a focus on the UK market. In the UK, the Online Dating Association (ODA) was set up by industry members in 2013, as they took collective...Tinder Execs Behaving Badly
How unfortunate that: 1) The men running Tinder thought it was appropriate to de-emphasize the role of a female co-founder, allegedly following that up with calling her a whore. 2) This is what I am writing about after some time off from blogging. I have little love...Match Executive Moves, Legal Win, Airtime Bombs, Taploid Launches
Lots going on with the announcement that Sam Yagan is now the CEO of Match, Inc, and Mandy Ginsberg as the CEO of Match.com. Congrats to Sam, I’ll have more on this remarkable executive shuffle next week. Does Match.com Have To Make Sure Its Member Profiles are...Skout Flirting App Tied to Rapes of Children
This is the kind of story I hate writing. Skout, longtime friends of Online Dating Insider and the dating industry, has had three occurrences of rape tied to the services in the last few weeks. In After Rapes Involving Children, Skout, a Flirting App, Faces...Dating Sites Are Selling Your Private Information
Not that this should come as a surprise to anyone, but a new study is out that shows how much personal information is shared and sold between website and data aggregators. Especially interesting is what dating sites like OkCupid make available to vendors. Stanford...
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