#Dating app Bumble expects higher demand amid COVID-19

#Dating app Bumble expects higher demand amid COVID-19

“#Dating app Bumble expects higher demand amid COVID-19” The owner of the dating app Bumble said Wednesday it expects a higher demand from people who avoided dating in person because of the COVID-19 pandemic, and an increase in revenue in the fourth quarter, according to a report. The Texas-based Bumble Inc. predicts the quarter revenue…

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#UK launches antitrust probe into Apple’s App Store

#UK launches antitrust probe into Apple’s App Store

“#UK launches antitrust probe into Apple’s App Store” British antitrust regulators launched a probe of Apple’s App Store Thursday after developers complained that the tech titan’s policies put them in a chokehold. The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority said it’s investigating concerns about the terms Apple forces on developers who want to distribute apps through…

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#Oh great, now Netflix is copying TikTok too

#Oh great, now Netflix is copying TikTok too

“#Oh great, now Netflix is copying TikTok too” By now we’ve seen that once a new social media format becomes popular, every app wants to copy it. We saw it happen after everyone and their mothers copied Snapchat’s ephemeral Stories, and now we’re seeing it happen with TikTok-style short videos (which themselves are just copies…

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#Twitter’s new ‘Communities’ and ‘Super Follows’ will make it more like Facebook and Patreon

#Twitter’s new ‘Communities’ and ‘Super Follows’ will make it more like Facebook and Patreon

“#Twitter’s new ‘Communities’ and ‘Super Follows’ will make it more like Facebook and Patreon” At its core, Twitter hasn’t changed all that much in the past few years. For the most part, people use it the same as they always have — a mostly public-facing ‘microblogging’ platform. But the company today unveiled highlighted multiple upcoming…

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#WhatsApp goes ahead with controversial privacy policy update

#WhatsApp goes ahead with controversial privacy policy update

“#WhatsApp goes ahead with controversial privacy policy update” WhatsApp is pressing ahead with a privacy policy update that sparked a backlash last month — but it promised to give people plenty of time to review the changes. The messaging service took another crack at reassuring users that the update would not let Facebook, its parent company,…

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#Here’s why racism is rampant on dating apps

#Here’s why racism is rampant on dating apps

“#Here’s why racism is rampant on dating apps” The authors of a new book are arguing for race-blind dating apps — and the removal of filters for race and ethnicity. Finding love, they say, isn’t so black-and-white.  In a new book, “The Dating Divide: Race and Desire in the Era of Online Romance,” sociologists Jennifer Lundquist,…

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