Candace Bushnell: Grindr is great – I don’t want to travel for sex SEX AND THE CITY Candace Bushnell on sharing the London stage with Sarah Jessica Parker and why Grindr has got it right
Grindr faces lawsuit over alleged data breach involving users’ HIV status LAW Gay dating app Grindr faces a lawsuit over an alleged major data breach, which involved users’ HIV status.
It’s a match: Grindr swipes right on going public with £1.7bn SPAC deal GRINDR Dating app Grindr has agreed to go public in a $2.1bn (£1.7bn) SPAC deal with Tiga Acquisition, just a week after reports that the gay-friendly platform shared the movements of millions of users with a digital advertising network. With an estimated 10.8 million monthly active users in 2021 for Grindr, the business combination is set [...]
Grindr hit with £8.5m fine over data privacy breach January 26, 2021 Grindr is set to be slapped with a hefty fine after regulators found it had illegally disclosed user data to advertising firms. The Norwegian Data Protection Authority has announced an intention to fine the gay dating app 100m krona (£8.5m) — equivalent to 10 per cent of its annual turnover — over the breach. The proposed [...]
Animal at Park Theatre review: A smart take on disability, dating and online culture April 25, 2023 Animal opens with the lead character, David, attempting to utilise a masturbation pump. A cerebral palsy sufferer, inserting his penis into the device’s nozzle is just one of the many things he is unable to do. Explaining why he needs to return it to the online sex shop is another. What follows is an examination [...]
A Strange Loop, Barbican, review: New York’s smash hit doesn’t land in London June 29, 2023 A Strange Loop review and star rating: ★★★ A Strange Loop won every Best Musical award in New York, and was nominated for 11 Tony Awards. It was a New York Times Critics’ Pick and won the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Drama; unusual for a musical, the accolade was previously taken by Hamilton. The musical [...]
Calls for Cressida Dick to resign after inquest finds Met Police failings “probably” led to more victims of the serial killer Stephen Port December 10, 2021 An inquest jury found this afternoon that mistakes by the Metropolitan Police "probably" contributed to the deaths of the victims of serial killer Stephen Port, leading to calls for Cressida Dick's resignatio
Half of all Brits demand to know vaccination status of their dates November 8, 2021 53 per cent of singletons dating in the UK right now believe that they have the right to know whether the person they date has been vaccinated or not. Brits were far more concerned about vaccination status compared with other countries; 36 per cent of people in the USA, 26 per cent in France, 17 [...]
Fishing for likes: Facebook takes on Tinder as it rolls out dating service October 22, 2020 Facebook is ramping up the pressure on apps such as Tinder and Bumble as it rolls out a new dating feature. Facebook Dating was first launched in the US and 19 other countries last month, but will now be available to users in the UK and across Europe. The social media platform said the new [...]
Dating app Grindr is planning an overseas IPO August 30, 2018 The Chinese owner of gay dating app Grindr has revealed plans to spin off the company and list it on an overseas bourse. Kunlun Technology, which bought a 61.5 per cent stake in Grindr in 2016 before acquiring the remainder in January this year, published news of Grindr's upcoming initial public offering (IPO) overnight on [...]