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☆ A woman unmasked her catfisher after finding 2 more victims. They were surprised to find the catfisher's true identity.
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-30 | by ( Jane Ridley | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

Read previewScrolling through the profiles on OkCupid, Anna Akbari was drawn to a man who seemed handsome, witty, and highly intelligent. He was a catfisher — a person who fakes their online identity to trick victims into thinking they are someone else. He'd sent her a forged driving license, power points from his supposed job, and even copies of papers he claimed to have written at MIT. "We didn't know who this person was or why they were doing it," Akbari told BI. "Emily was Ethan, and Ethan was Emily," Akbari wrote in the book.

Persons: —, Anna Akbari, They'd, Akbari, — Ethan Schuman, MIT —, Schuman, Ethan, Gchat, — Schuman, he'd, Warren Talmarkes, I'd, didn't, Gina Dallago, She'd, Dallago, Anna, He'd, they'd, Emily Slutsky, who'd, Emily, Slutsky Organizations: Service, Columbia University, MIT, Business, New York University, BI, Skype, Grand, Valentine's, Facebook, Grand Central Publishing, Columbia Locations: Washington, DC, New York, Ireland, Irish, Akbari, New York City, Japan, Columbia, Cork

☆ Blue-collar jobs are booming. White-collar jobs, not so much.
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-15 | by ( Juliana Kaplan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +14 min

Now, she told me, blue-collar work is an oasis in the fake-email-job desert, with a newfound social cachet. In a survey conducted in late 2021, 67% of blue-collar workers said they believed the pandemic changed how people viewed their jobs, and 75% of white-collar workers agreed. AdvertisementNow, the economy is adding blue-collar jobs at a rapid clip. There is a tendency — particularly among white-collar workers — to look at blue-collar work through rose-colored glasses, to romanticize the hard work and skills it requires. The labor market hasn't completely reversed course; blue-collar jobs may be booming, but a bachelor's degree is still often a prerequisite for roles with high pay and numerous benefits.

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This is “Modern Love.” Today, I’m talking to the most famous couples therapist in the world, Esther Perel. esther perelOK. “What Sleeping with Married Men Taught Me About Infidelity” by Karin Jones. [MUSIC PLAYING] “I’m not sure it’s possible to justify my liaison with married men, but what I learned from having them warrants discussion. anna martinWhen we come back, I talk to Esther about the harsh criticism this essay got and why Esther thinks Karin Jones deserves more credit. esther perelThe homewrecker is always a woman because the woman is the one who says yes, and therefore, if the woman hadn’t said yes, then he wouldn’t be able to do it.

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☆ The operator of Tinder, Hinge, and OkCupid is being sued over claims it made them addictive and puts profit over love
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-15 | by ( Thibault Spirlet | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Read previewThe operator of dating platforms Tinder, Hinge, and OkCupid is being sued over claims it makes its apps addictive and puts profit over love. Match Group did not immediately reply to Business Insider’s request for comments. Speaking to the outlet, a spokesperson for Match Group denied the allegations, saying the case was "ridiculous and has zero merit." Match Group owns the largest global portfolio of popular online dating services, including Tinder, Match.com, OkCupid, Hinge, Plenty of Fish, OurTime, and other dating brands, per its website . The group has hundreds of millions of reported users across its platforms, per its latest business overview, published in August 2023.

Persons: — Organizations: Service, Court, Northern, Northern District of, Business, NPR, Match Group Locations: Northern District, Northern District of California

☆ Dating apps in 2024: A look at the state of Tinder, Bumble, Hinge and Match
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-14 | by ( Rachel Wilson | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

But dating apps, including Bumble, Grindr, Hinge and OkCupid, have cemented themselves as a fixture in American life: 2023’s downloads are more than twice the number of downloads in 2012, the year Tinder launched. This is the state of the dating app market, in four charts:Downloads are starting to fallThe popularity of dating apps has remained steady despite a slight decline in overall downloads in recent years. As many as three in 10 of all Americans say they’ve used a dating app, according to Pew. Tinder’s dominance is waningTinder has been the most commonly used dating app for Americans, a status it has held almost since it launched in 2012. Tinder is the largest app in Match Group’s US portfolio, which also includes Match, OKCupid, Hinge, Plenty of Fish and 36 other dating app brands aimed at diverse communities.

Persons: CNN — Tinder, Gen, they’ve, ” Tomas Iriarte, Reyes, Tinder, Gen Z Young, who’d, Gen Z, Bumble, X, ”, Amelia Orlando Organizations: CNN, Pew Research Center, Pew, Tinder, Survey Center, American, American Enterprise Institute Locations: data.ai

☆ Opinion: A big reason so many of us are still single
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-13 | by ( Opinion Kara Alaimo | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

Kara Alaimo Courtesy Kara AlaimoA paradoxical reason, I argue in my forthcoming book: Dating apps. The conventional wisdom, of course, is that online dating has made it easier to meet people. Only 38% of single women are looking to date or pursue a relationship, compared to 61% of single men, according to the Pew Research Center. Recognize that dating apps aren’t going to do your work for you. Dating apps aren’t as smart as their creators may claim.

Persons: Kara Alaimo, Kara, ”, ” Nancy Jo Sales, —, they’ve Organizations: Fairleigh Dickinson University, Women, Press, Facebook, CNN, Pew Research Center, Media, Pew Research

☆ Hinge's founder delayed starting a job at McKinsey after college and invested his $12,000 signing bonus into his dating website
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-06 | by ( Sawdah Bhaimiya | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Justin McLeod accepted a job offer from the consulting firm McKinsey while in business school. McLeod had invested his $12,000 signing bonus into an idea for a dating website called Hinge. AdvertisementHinge's CEO accepted a job offer from McKinsey while in business school but kept delaying the start date, to work on his idea for a dating website, CNBC Make It reported. "That was kind of the standard job that you got coming out of business school." McLeod explained that his mom was pretty disappointed that she got to tell everyone he was at Harvard Business School, then McKinsey, and then "unemployed and working on a dating website."

Persons: Justin McLeod, McLeod, —, " McLeod Organizations: McKinsey, Service, CNBC, Harvard Business School, Exchange, Group Locations: Fortune

☆ She Wrote a Best Seller on Women’s Sex Lives. Then Her Own Fell Apart.
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-18 | by ( Catherine Pearson | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

A decade ago, as the sex educator Emily Nagoski was researching and writing her first book, “Come as You Are” — a soon-to-be best seller exploring the science of women’s sexuality — she and her husband stopped having sex. Nagoski began appearing everywhere, reassuring women that their sexuality was not a problem that needed to be solved or treated. She talked to the author Glennon Doyle and her wife, the soccer player Abby Wambach, about body image and shame on their podcast. She published a workbook to help women better understand their sexual temperament and sexual cues. “Like, how can I be an ‘expert’ — and I say that with heavy, heavy air quotes — and still be struggling in this way?”

Persons: Emily Nagoski, —, Nagoski, Glennon Doyle, Abby Wambach, Rich Stevens —, “, ” Nagoski, ’ — Organizations: TED Locations: Easthampton

☆ Match shares surge on report activist investor Elliott takes $1 billion stake
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-09 | by ( Rohan Goswami | In Rohangoswamicnbc | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Shares of Tinder owner Match jumped as much as 12% during Tuesday morning trading after The Wall Street Journal reported that Elliott Management, the activist investing firm behind campaigns at Salesforce and Pinterest , had built a roughly $1 billion stake in the online dating company. The company had a market cap of $10 billion at the close Monday, but that pales in comparison to its more than $45 billion market cap in 2021. Elliott is expected to engage with Match management, the Journal reported citing people familiar with the matter, but it was not clear if that engagement would include nominating its own directors. But the company reported a continued tumble in so-called Tinder payers in November when it reported third-quarter earnings. A spokesperson for Elliott Management was not immediately available for comment.

Persons: Gary Swidler, Greg Blatt, Sam Yagan, Nelson Griggs, Elliott, Jesse Cohn Organizations: Match, Match Group, Nasdaq, Street Journal, Elliott Management, JPMorgan, Phillips, CNBC, Citrix, eBay, Twitter Locations: New York City, Salesforce

☆ Evercore ISI says scoop up these tax loss 'leftovers' that are trading cheaply at year-end
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-27 | by ( Alex Harring | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Analyst Julian Emanuel said investors should consider snapping up stocks that Evercore ISI calls "tax loss targets." Such stocks are being sold by investors looking to realize their losses and cut their 2023 tax bill before year-end. The average analyst has a buy rating and price target implying upside of about 32%, according to LSEG. The average analyst has a buy rating on the stock with a price target reflecting upside of nearly 39%, per LSEG. In addition to holding an average buy rating, analysts polled by LSEG forecast a price target implying Corteva could rally nearly 26% over the next year.

Persons: Julian Emanuel, Emanuel, there's, Aptiv, Piper Sandler, FactSet, Alexander Potter, LSEG, OkCupid, — CNBC's Michael Bloom Organizations: ISI, Pfizer, Aptiv, CNBC Pro, Wall, LSEG Locations: Israel

☆ Whitney Wolfe Herd Is Stepping Down as Bumble’s C.E.O. After a Decade
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-06 | by ( Jenny Gross | More About Jenny Gross | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Bumble, which requires women to make the first move, went public in 2021, briefly making Ms. Wolfe Herd one of the world’s few female billionaires, according to Bloomberg. As of June, the dating app had 2.5 million paying users, according to Bumble’s second-quarter earnings report. Bumble will report its third-quarter earnings on Tuesday. About a third of adults in the United States have used a dating app, according to a Pew Research Center survey conducted last year. The number of users paying for Tinder, fell 6 percent compared to the same period a year earlier, Match said.

Persons: Wolfe Herd, Bumble’s, Bumble, Morgan Stanley, Jones Organizations: Bloomberg, Pew Research Center, Match, Tinder, Salesforce, Microsoft, Wall Street Journal Locations: United States, Fish, Brazil

☆ Tinder-owner Match issues dour forecast; shares tumble
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-31 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

That has, in turn, impacted its dating platforms, which include Hinge, OKCupid, and Plenty of Fish. Tinder, its largest brand, grew revenue by 7% last year compared to its chief rival Bumble (BMBL.O), which expanded its top line at twice that rate. In the third quarter ended Sept. 30, revenue grew 9% to $882 million, beating analysts' estimate of $880.6 million, according to LSEG. Sales in the Americas, which accounts for over half of its revenue, rose 10%, while those in Europe were up 17%. Direct revenue at Tinder and Hinge, its top two dating platforms, grew 11% and 44% respectively.

Persons: Akhtar Soomro, Bumble, Yuvraj Malik, Anil D'Silva Organizations: REUTERS, Google, Thomson Locations: Israel, Plenty, Americas, Europe, Bengaluru

☆ Dating apps can embrace gamification of hookups
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-06 | by ( Lauren Silva Laughlin | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

The dating app Tinder is shown on a mobile phone in this picture illustration taken September 1, 2020. The dating app owned by Match (MTCH.O) said last week it’s rolling out a subscription tier called “Tinder Select” that will cost $500 a month. The $12 billion company could make even more money if it approached hookups the way computer games hook users. By contrast, if a hefty 1% of Tinder’s current subscribers sign up for Tinder Select, they will pay an extra $600 million. Follow @thereallsl on XCONTEXT NEWSMatch’s dating app Tinder is launching a premium service named “Tinder Select” for $499 a month.

Persons: Akhtar Soomro, Bernard Kim, Tinder, Peter Thal Larsen, Sharon Lam, Aditya Sriwatsav Organizations: REUTERS, Reuters, Match, Apps, Tinder, Reuters Graphics Reuters, Thomson Locations: Plenty

☆ An AI dating app claims to find your perfect match using only your face
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-01 | by ( Polly Thompson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

SciMatch is a dating app that claims to use social science and AI to match compatible partners. Rather than create an entire dating profile, all the app requires is one selfie from users. AdvertisementAdvertisementA dating app is claiming to use AI-powered facial recognition to help users find love. Instead of filling in a full dating profile, SciMatch just asks users to upload a single selfie, The Wall Street Journal reported. For example, Tinder has announced a tool to help users select the best photos for their profiles.

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☆ The 'easiest way' to turn your hobby into a side hustle, according to an expert: 'Whatever hobby, there's someone who will pay you'
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-16 | by ( Gili Malinsky | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

These days, there are endless ways to do a side hustle. You can write people's Grand Theft Auto profiles, take over their dating profiles like Tinder and OkCupid, and even get paid to deliver a joke fish. If there's a task that needs doing, it's entirely possible someone will pay you to do it. If you're looking for a side hustle, the easiest place to start might be to consider what you enjoy. Here are a few ideas of how to turn your hobby into a moneymaking hustle.

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☆ Dating apps like Tinder and OkCupid are hoping new AI features will help you land a date by choosing your profile picture and best matches
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-03 | by ( Aaron Mok | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Match Group, the company behind Tinder and Hinge, announced it's adding new AI features to its apps. Match didn't specify which of its apps could include the AI features. One of the AI features could explain why the app recommended a match to the user. A screenshot of Match Group's AI concepts for its new AI features. Some app users are already using AI to improve their dating lives.

Persons: Tinder, Bernard Kim, Kim, Mark van Ryswyk, Salvatore Damiata Organizations: Artificial Intelligence Locations: Match's

☆ An Open Marriage, a Bad Decision and a Grandmother Who Needs Cash
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-10 | by ( Cathi Hanauer | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

HOPE, by Andrew RidkerIf for Emily Dickinson “hope” is the thing with feathers, for Andrew Ridker, in his novel called “Hope,” it’s an upstanding liberal Jewish family outside Boston, grasping at air as they plummet from grace. Think Harvard-educated physician father, socially conscious Brookline mother and young adult offspring struggling to self-actualize. He does this for the money: The green energy start-up he invested in has failed, and his octogenarian mother, Marjorie, needs help paying for an elite retirement community. In different ways, the books explore American males overseas (here, Israel and Syria) and do-gooderism gone wrong. They jump smoothly around in time (“Hope” takes place over a year in the Obama era) and skillfully enter the viewpoint of all main characters, lending each depth and humanity.

Persons: Andrew Ridker, Emily Dickinson, ”, Scott, Marjorie, ” Ahmet —, “, Franzen, grapples, Obama Organizations: Harvard, ” Locations: Boston, Brookline, Turkish, Berlin, Israel, Syria

☆ Men are using AI to land more dates with better profiles and personalized messages, study finds
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-28 | by ( Aaron Mok | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Men are using AI tools like ChatGPT to improve their dating lives, an Attractiontruth study found. Some men said they used AI to generate their bios and craft personalized messages to their matches. Online dating can be tough, but AI might be making it a little bit easier, a new study suggests. Researchers at Attractiontruth, an AI dating coach, surveyed 1,371 men across the sexuality spectrum to see if they are using AI to enhance their dating profiles. In February, OkCupid used ChatGPT to generate matching-questions — like "Are you more of an introvert or extrovert" — that were later added to the platform, according to a company blog post.

Persons: Bumble, Salvatore Damiata, dente, Am, Damiata, OkCupid, Bernard Kim, daters Organizations: Attractiontruth Locations: Attractiontruth, Italian

It’s called “For a 30-Year-Old Virgin, It’s Now or Never.”The candles were lit. As we looked over the menu, he mentioned that he didn’t know what a poached egg was. And I didn’t want to die a virgin. Given how things turned out, am I upset that I lost my virginity in a rush to a guy who didn’t matter? Being a 30-year-old virgin is not normal.

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☆ CNBC Daily Open: Markets lacked conviction
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-15 | by ( Yeo Boon Ping | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Markets lacked conviction, while the debate over the U.S. debt ceiling remained roiled by passionate intensity. This report is from today's CNBC Daily Open, our new, international markets newsletter. CNBC Daily Open brings investors up to speed on everything they need to know, no matter where they are. Markets lacked conviction, while the debate over the U.S. debt ceiling remained roiled by passionate intensity, to borrow the words of Irish poet W. B. Yeats. Subscribe here to get this report sent directly to your inbox each morning before markets open.

☆ CNBC Daily Open: Markets’ ‘lack of conviction’
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-15 | by ( Yeo Boon Ping | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

☆ After a Yearlong Dating Hiatus, (Cautiously) Embracing Something New
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-12 | by ( Louise Rafkin | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

For Ande Flower, the first year of the pandemic coincided conveniently with a personal commitment to staying single. Flower began transitioning from female to male in 2018, following a move from Seattle to Pacific Grove, Calif., for a new job. At the turn of 2020, he began a new chapter of his life publicly living as a man. Flower, an urban planner focused on affordable housing in the Central California region, vowed to spend the year getting to know himself. So, in December 2020, he cautiously ventured onto OkCupid and quickly became captivated by Veronica Savage’s unique dating profile.

☆ The Women Who Are Giving Dating Apps the Summer Off
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-08 | by ( Gina Cherelus | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

“As much as I value companionship and relationships, I don’t know that I value it to the point of burnout.”As the days grow longer and the weather warmer, there are some who are opting out of dating apps — at least for now. Of nearly a dozen women interviewed, many said they were reclaiming the time they had spent in the cold winter months swiping through dating apps by prioritizing real-life encounters and focusing on having fun. Ms. Brown recently decided to take her dating life off the apps this summer and will be doing the things she loves, like going to food and wine festivals or on hikes. And if they’re not, they’re not.”Atoosa Moinzadeh is also on that wave. Ms. Moinzadeh, a 30-year-old Brooklyn resident, has been on dating apps for almost 10 years, after first downloading Tinder in 2014.

☆ I answered a Craigslist ad offering $25/hr to help a woman 'match with intelligent, well-educated men' on Bumble and OKCupid
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-28 | by ( Gili Malinsky | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Then I did my 2018 taxes and discovered I owed the U.S. government $2,798 and New York state $345 from the full-time freelance work I'd done the year before. A family member was able to lend me $1,243 at no interest, as well as an extra $50 so I wouldn't starve till my next pay day. I started looking for work outside of my day job to help cover the bill. "If I can help a badass lady find some man gold," I wrote, "that feels like a pretty major win." We Skyped the following day then met up for drinks at a wine bar in Brooklyn to hammer out details.

☆ Why you’re about to see ChatGPT in more of your apps
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-01 | by ( Samantha Murphy Kelly | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

OpenAI is opening up access to its ChatGPT tool to third-party businesses, paving the way for the viral AI chatbot to be integrated into numerous apps and services. Instacart, Snap and tutor app Quizlet are among the early partners experimenting with adding ChatGPT. The initial batch of companies tapping into OpenAI’s API each have slightly different visions for how to incorporate ChatGPT. Dating website OkCupid has already experimented with using ChatGPT to write matching questions. Some school systems, such as in New York and Seattle, banned the use of ChatGPT in the classroom over concerns about students cheating.

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