Tag: Tinder

The co-founders of popular dating app Tinder, along with eight other people, are suing the company’s owners for at least $2 billion.

A man allegedly used the online dating site Tinder to kill and rape multiple women over the past few months, the New York Police Department (NYPD) said.

The alleged killers of a woman who they met on a Tinder date bought tools used for her murder and dismemberment while she was still alive, according to a report.

Following the announcement of Facebook’s new dating feature, privacy experts have expressed skepticism surrounding the company’s new direction.

Social media firm Facebook unveiled their latest attempt to copy an existing app’s idea with the introduction of a new dating feature that bears a striking resemblance to popular dating app Tinder.

A transgender woman has filed a lawsuit against Tinder, alleging discrimination against transgender users on the platform.

A man in Washington State is in the hospital recovering from stab wounds after his girlfriend stabbed him with a samurai sword in a fit of jealous rage, police said.

A California court has ruled that Tinder Plus’ higher price model for users over 30 is discriminatory, following a wave of complaints.

Tinder’s lack of encryption means users can easily be spied on while using the popular dating app, according to a report.

A woman who disappeared following a Tinder date has been found dead, according to a report.

Uber, Tinder, Snapchat, Twitter, and other top apps have allegedly been secretly tracking users, according to a report.

Researchers from the Moscow-based Kaspersky Lab have discovered that using simple exploits, they could uncover sensitive data, like location and message history, for users of 9 dating apps for iOS and Android, including Tinder, Bumble and OK Cupid.

According to a new study, popular dating app Tinder is causing users to revert back to basic mating urges and habits.

After a journalist asked Tinder to send her all the personal data that the company had stored on her, she received 800 pages of information, according to a report.

Facebook reportedly has plans to launch a new Tinder-style “meetup” feature.

Popular dating platform Tinder has become the highest grossing app on Apple’s App Store, following the launch of a new paid feature, according to a report.

Uber’s Board of Directors has offered the vacant CEO job, formerly occupied by founder Travis Kalanick, to current Expedia CEO Dara Khosrowshahi.

Popular dating app Tinder are investigating the theft of 40,000 user profile pictures after a programmer made the images public as part of a “facial dataset.”

37 percent of men don’t think using dating apps while in a relationship is cheating, according to a new survey of over 3,500 college students by ABODO.

A new viral trend is leading many female Tinder users to scam desperate men out of $5 to “see what happens.”

Less than five percent of users on the popular dating app Tinder are looking for a relationship, while nearly 45% use the app solely as a confidence booster, according to a new report.

CEOs from leading tech companies such as Tumblr, Slack, Foursquare, and Reddit have sent a letter to House and Senate leaders, urging them to continue Planned Parenthood’s taxpayer funding.

Tinder has a secret and exclusive version of their app purely for “people who do really well” on the platform, according to a report by Tech Crunch.

A man was arrested in Mexico City on suspicion of murder after a girl who he’d met on the dating app Tinder was killed and dissolved in a bath of acid.

Syphilis is making a comeback among millennials thanks to Tinder, a new CDC report says.

An Australian man has pleaded not guilty after being charged with the murder of a 26-year-old tourist from New Zealand, who plunged 14 floors to her death while allegedly attempting to escape him during a Tinder date.

Gay hook up smartphone apps Tinder and Grindr are reporting a massive spike in usage in the Philadelphia area as the Democrats gather for their national nominating convention.

Hunter Scarborough is talking up his mobile app, Voter, which he describes as “Tinder for politics,” and which allows voters to learn about issues, candidates, and each other.

A student at the University of Kansas was allegedly kidnapped, beaten, and held hostage for six days in a trailer after a Tinder date.

Tinder announced it is testing a new feature that will allow users to match with groups of people rather than one at a time. However, the feature has already faced criticism that it will “embarrass people” and “facilitate group sex,” according to The Independent.

With the Tinder double-opt-in Internet dating app valued at up to $5 billion in advance of its initial public offering on the stock market (IPO), little WildFireWeb, which owns the “Tinder®” federal registration mark, has launched a crowd-funded effort to raise hundreds of thousands of dollars to fund a lawsuit that could potentially be worth hundreds of millions of dollars.

Guantanamo Bay is not standing in the way of prisoner Muhammad Rahim al-Afghani’s desire to find love. His lawyer Carlos Warner runs account an account for the terrorist on Match.com.

After going missing for more than a week, Rosie O’Donnell’s 17-year-old daughter Chelsea was found Tuesday with an alleged heroin dealer she met on Tinder, Page Six reports.

Gay BBC presenter Evan Davis shocked Newsnight audiences last night as he described social media dating app Tinder as a platform that allows straight people to “behave like gay men”, going on to state that the app is an “easy hook

The Iranian government, alarmed at the declining rate of marriage in the Islamic Republic, has announced it will officially launch a free online “matchmaking service” that officials insist is not a dating site. Unlike a dating site, users have no choice in who they are paired with upon subscribing to the service.