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☆ 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.

☆ Premarket stocks: Why traders are so infatuated with inflation
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-14 | by ( Nicole Goodkind | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

What’s happening: Investors will get some market direction clarity on Tuesday morning with the release of key inflation data. It’s not all about the Fed: Traders are infatuated with CPI, but it’s likely going to affect markets more than it will future Fed policy. “CPI is the big inflation report that affects markets more than any other,” he said. Even beyond housing, the services sector has seen year-over-year inflation higher than 3.9% every month since March 2021, said Chaudhuri. And as Powell noted in Washington last week, the stickiness of core services inflation is his greatest concern.

☆ More CMOs Are Investing in Their Personal Brands
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-18 | by ( Patrick Coffee | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +8 min

Efforts can include carefully composed LinkedIn posts about everything from corporate leadership to their costumes at the company’s recent Halloween party. Newsletter Sign-up WSJ | CMO Today CMO Today delivers the most important news of the day for media and marketing professionals. “The best way to do that is for them to have their own strong personal brands,” said Ms. Pryor. Other marketing executives are getting help. SHARE YOUR THOUGHTS Should your company’s executives be able to expense ghostwriters for their personal social-media posts?

☆ Grindr Plans to Focus on Monetization, Subscription Prices After Going Public
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-17 | by ( Jennifer Williams-Alvarez | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +6 min

The company will list on the New York Stock Exchange under a new name, Grindr Inc.Vanna Krantz, Grindr CFO. Ms. Krantz said she plans to review subscription prices, which currently start at $19.99 a month for paid accounts. Once the company is public, Ms. Krantz will be responsible for further building out Grindr’s finance function. Ms. Krantz said she would focus on further improvement when it comes to forecasting. The year-over-year loss was largely driven by one-time costs associated with going public, such as legal, consulting and audit fees, Ms. Krantz said.

☆ Billionaires like Elon Musk want to save civilization by having tons of genetically superior kids. Inside the movement to take 'control of human evolution.'
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-17 | by ( Julia Black | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +40 min

"We are the Underground Railroad of 'Gattaca' babies and people who want to do genetic stuff with their kids," Malcolm told me. Ellison, meanwhile, who has two children in their 30s, has reportedly resumed having kids — with his 31-year-old girlfriend. "The person of this subculture really sees the pathway to immortality as being through having children," Simone said. The person of this subculture really sees the pathway to immortality as being through having children. Before she met Malcolm, Simone was convinced she wanted to live her life single and child-free.

☆ Morgan Stanley says online dating stock Match is one of the best stories heading into 2023
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-03 | by ( Alex Harring | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Match, the company behind dating platforms such as Tinder, Hinge and OkCupid, is worth loving – even during its current troubles, Morgan Stanley said. Analyst Lauren Schenk reiterated Match as overweight, saying it's at an attractive entry point despite disappointing market performance this year. One point of concern for Match is its fourth-quarter outlook, the analyst said, as the guide was slightly softer than expected. She said Morgan Stanley's estimates on 2022 and 2023 revenue and EBITDA remain largely unchanged. However, with the stock down 65.4% this year, Schenk did note there was multiple contractors driving down performance.

☆ Hinge's founder said in the early days it almost ran out of money. It went on to get acquired by Tinder owner Match Group — here are 5 lessons he learned along the way.
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-20 | by ( Lisa Ksienrzyk | Nathan Rennolds | Business Insider Deutschland | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Justin McLeod is the founder and CEO of the dating app Hinge. He told Insider how Hinge got started and five lessons he's learned in his 11 years as a founder. Finally, in the summer of 2018, Hinge sold 51% of its shares to Match Group, the parent company of competitors like Tinder and OkCupid. McLeod said Match Group's takeover quickly helped Hinge grow, with the number of employees rising from about 50 to more than 200. I learned a lot from the mistakes I made from 2011 to 2016," McLeod told Insider.

A crescut impresionant și rata vaccinării cu 94% în rândul tinerilor de 16 și 17 ani și cu 46% – pentru tinerii de 18 și 19 ani. Numărul persoanelor cu vârsta cuprinsă între 20 și 55 de ani a crescut cu 55 la sută de la anunțarea loteriei. Banii de la loterie vor fi alocați din fondurile federale destinate luptei cu coronavirusul al statului Ohio. Inițiativa, chiar dacă a prezentat rezultate bune, a fost criticată de parlamentarii din ambele tabere politice, considerând-o risipă a banilor contribuabililor. De exemplu, au fost făcute studii în baza programelor de stimulare combinate cu alte strategii de promovare a vaccinării.

Organizations: Albă, NBC News, CNN Locations: SUA, Ohio, York, Maryland, Hinge, OKCupid, BLK, Chispa, Dispatch

☆ Aplicațiile pentru întâlniri din SUA vor oferi avantaje speciale pentru persoanele vaccinate
▼ + stars: | 2021-05-23 | by ( Onixmedia Srl | ) diez.md time to read: +1 min

Aplicațiile de dating din Statele Unite vor avea funcții speciale pentru utilizatorii vaccinați anti-COVID-19. Totul a început la inițiativa Casei Albe, care a creat un parteneriat cu site-urile de matrimoniale pentru a încuraja americanii să se vaccineze. Prin această înțelegere, aplicațiile utilizate de circa 50 de milioane de oameni, vor introduce ecusoane, insigne speciale și acces gratuit la conținut premium doar pentru vaccinați, iar utilizatorii vor putea să aplice filtre de căutare pentru a vedea doar persoanele vaccinate, informează Reuters. Match Group Inc (MTCH.O) a confirmat participarea mărcilor sale de top din S.U.A., inclusiv Tinder, Match, OkCupid, Hinge, Plenty of Fish, BLK și Chispa. Campaniile promoționale vor fi lansate în următoarele săptămâni și se vor desfășura până pe 4 iulie.

Persons: . Totul, administraţia Biden, Shar Organizations: Reuters, Match Group Inc, Match Group, Albă Locations: Statele Unite, S.U.A ., OkCupid, Hinge, Fish, BLK, America, SUA

☆ В каком возрасте вы встретите свою большую любовь, согласно науке
▼ + stars: | 2021-04-05 | by ( Mld Media Srl | ) noi.md time to read: +7 min

Любовь и математика. Facebook выявил закономерность, что человек начинает чаще применять такие слова, как «счастливый», «милый» и «любовь» примерно за 100 дней до установки статуса «в отношениях». Но все становится немного проще, если у людей есть возможность встретиться вживую, а у исследователя — проанализировать, как они реагируют друг на друга. Математика утверждает, что первые 37% кандидатов для брака рассматривать не стоит — их вы просто оцениваете, выделяя самого классного согласно по вашим критериям. Это те пары, где партнеры все замечают и позволяют себе друг на друга жаловаться.

Persons: OkCupid, Ханне Фрай, Ханна, Фрай, Ханна Фрай, Вопервых, Джон Готтман Organizations: SAS, Facebook, Skype, АСТ Locations: Амстердам, США

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