Chinese Investors Buy Majority Stake in Gay Dating App Grindr
Beijing-based Chinese gaming company, Kunlun World Wide Technology Co., has become the majority owner of the wildly popular, Hollywood-based gay dating app Grindr.
Beijing-based Chinese gaming company, Kunlun World Wide Technology Co., has become the majority owner of the wildly popular, Hollywood-based gay dating app Grindr.

In a near party-line vote, California state Democratic legislators killed a bill on Tuesday that would have banned the state’s Obamacare exchange from hiring felons convicted of financial crimes. Critics of the bill said the legislation was overly restrictive and

In what will be the last football game at Candlestick Park, Hall of Fame quarterbacks Joe Montana and Dan Marino will face off in a flag football contest on July 12. According to the San Francisco Chronicle, “Montana will lead a

Wednesday and Thursday marked two defeats and one victory for the anti-Semitic boycott, divestment, and sanctions movement against Israel. The movement, which is designed to cut off funding to companies that do business with the Jewish state, met with two

Actress Kathy Najimy grew up going to SeaWorld, but after hearing critics decry how the organization treats its animals she decided to star in a PETA ad against it. The People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals advertisement shows the

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s rediscovery of the sunken passenger ship SS City of Chester after 126 years–deemed the second worst maritime disaster inside the Bay Area in terms of fatalities, next to the SS City of Rio de

Hold your breath! If you live in L.A. County, the San Joaquin Valley or the Inland Empire, then your lungs probably don’t like you very much. And if you live in Fresno–better known to young community workers as the “93706

On Wednesday, the California State Assembly Governmental Organization Committee in California discussed the viability of online poker in the state, as two online poker bills have been floated before the legislature, Steven Stradbrooke of CalvinAyre.com reports. Anita Lee, a state

Los Angeles County Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas, who has long advocated for the National Football League to return to the city, warned Wednesday that the NFL is “not serious” about expanding or relocating to the area. “They’re having a good time feigning

Comedian Tim Allen slips in a conservative message or two on his ABC sitcom Last Man Standing. This week, he gave the audience at Jimmy Kimmel Live a taste of his ideological humor. The Golden State took the blow, and

Newly released voter registration data for California shows that the percentage of the population registering as either Republican or Democrat has dropped since the last gubernatorial election in 2010. The data published Tuesday by Secretary of State Debra Bowen shows a

According to the Los Angeles Times, a South Bay woman has won $75,000 from the TSA because the agency would not let her containers of breast milk through its screening without incident. Stacey Armato, who is an attorney, said that

A federal judge dismissed director Quentin Tarantino’s lawsuit against Gawker.com for linking to a leaked screenplay he wrote. The legal battle may not be over, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The California judge which granted Gawker’s motion to dismiss the

The California Senate decided to take time out from its normal working routine and conduct a long-needed review of what constitutes ethical behavior. Two state senators have been charged with crimes by the FBI and another has been convicted of

Why do so many statewide politicians come from Northern California, when there are more people in Southern California? The answer is simple, writes Anthony York of Capitol Weekly: Democrats from the Bay Area vote. “While the people may be in

U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren, who has fashioned herself as the next hope of the liberal grassroots, argues in her new memoir, A Fighting Chance, that California gubernatorial hopeful Neel Kashkari lied to her during his tenure at the U.S. Treasury,

California Secretary of State Debra Bowen was the common target of four candidates for her office in the 2014 elections as they debated Wednesday at the Sacramento Press Club, the Sacramento Bee reports. Bowen pushed back, the Bee notes, in

In February, Robin Abcarian of the Los Angeles Times mocked the Kansas state legislature for considering a Democrat’s proposal to protect parents who spank their children from investigations for child abuse. Placing the proposal alongside a measure designed to protect business

Local ABC affiliate KERO in Bakersfield reports that accused “East Side Crips” gang member John Thompson was pulled over by authorities on April 12, driving with a suspended license and a restraining order against him. An initial police search on the vehicle