Swipe right if you think it’s property love: New app Knocker is being billed as Tinder for home-buyers May 26, 2015 Looking for love of the property kind? This new app that is being billed as Tinder for home-buyers could be right up your street. A pair of clever programmers from the Ignite100 accelerator in Newcastle are hoping to tap into our lust for browsing the latest properties to hit the market. Like the [...]
Razor sharp: Will King talks moving on from King of Shaves, politics, a plan for Tesco and why we need Tinder for voting May 4, 2015 I came, I saw, I shaved, I died’ isn’t how I want to be remembered,” quips Will King. In 1993, he founded King of Shaves, the popular men’s toiletries brand. In frustration over the poor quality of his own products, he turned to his then-girlfriend’s bath oil for a smoother finish. The resulting businesses, including [...]
Facebook, Instagram and Tinder down for over an hour but social media giant denies cyber-attack January 27, 2015 Millions of Facebook and Instagram users were left stranded without profiles to lurk, updates to post and photos to “like” this morning, as the social networks were down for around an hour. Even Tinder users were unable to get swiping with the dating app shut down by what Facebook say was a fault caused [...]
Tinder and Betfair hook up with “Dave”, “Ed”, “Nick” and “Nige” profiles to lure “disengaged, tech-savvy voters” January 26, 2015 With now less than 100 days until the General Election, all eyes will be on the polls – but which survey should you trust? Well, if you’re not a political animal – and would rather base your vote on shared food choices and notches on the bedpost than actual policy decisions – Betfair may [...]
Peak beard? Tinder and Gillette test out love (or not) of beards in new advertising campaign January 21, 2015 Another sign that humanity (or hipsters, at least) may have hit “peak beard” has emerged. The results of an unusual experiment by dating app Tinder and razor-maker Gillette found that women prefer a man with a well-groomed face over those with facial hair. It’s another addition to the "beards are over" canon of scientific research, [...]
Bumble: Tinder’s ousted co-founder has hit back with her own dating app November 25, 2014 Whitney Wolfe is the Tinder co-founder who departed in a hail of allegations and lawsuits earlier this year. At the time, she accused fellow founder Justin Mateen (who quit in September) of stripping her of her "co-founder" title because her age and gender was "damaging" to the company's brand. Ouch. The sexual harassment lawsuit that [...]
Tinder CEO and co-founder Sean Rad is out as boss of IAC’s star startup November 4, 2014 The chief executive and co-founder of hugely successful dating app Tinder has been removed by majority owner IAC. Sean Rad will stay on as president and remains on the board. He will stay on until a new chief executive is found. Rad was ousted from the position after a call last month from IAC’s Sam [...]
Controversial social site Ask.fm sold to Tinder owners and set for major revamp August 14, 2014 Controversial social network Ask.fm – linked to recent teenage suicides – has been bought by the owners of Tinder and Ask.com for an undisclosed fee. The new owners have pledged to “revamp” its policies. The site, where members answer questions posed by others, has been linked to deaths of young people in the UK and [...]