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Tinder owner Match Group is joining the S&P 500. Here’s why that matters

Love is in the air on Wall Street.

Tinder owner Match Group is joining the S&P 500. Here’s why that matters

Fast Company Magazine

How background check startup Garbo protects people from gender-based violence

Kathryn Kosmides’s experience leaving an abusive relationship inspired her to create an easy way for people to find out more about whom they’re dating

How background check startup Garbo protects people from gender-based violence

Fast Company Magazine

What does Gen Z want? A different kind of experience on Tinder, for one thing

Kyle Miller and his Z Team draw inspiration from a cohort of college-aged “ambassadors.”

What does Gen Z want? A different kind of experience on Tinder, for one thing

How Match’s Black and Hispanic dating apps are helping close the vaccine gap

The Biden administration is turning to dating apps to help push more young people to get vaccinated. Chispa and BLK’s campaigns are especially important.

How Match’s Black and Hispanic dating apps are helping close the vaccine gap

The five best arguments that Apple’s App Store is a monopoly

During a Senate hearing this week, lawmakers and app developers leveled some weighty criticisms against Apple for the way it runs the App Store.

The five best arguments that Apple’s App Store is a monopoly

Tinder will integrate background checks to keep users safe

Tinder parent Match Group plans to roll out a feature in partnership with nonprofit Garbo to help people run background checks later this year, although details are still to be determined.

Tinder will integrate background checks to keep users safe

Bumble files to go public

The six-year-old dating app where women make the first move revealed its IPO plans in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing.

Bumble files to go public

Tinder and Megan Thee Stallion will give you $10,000 to stop being so shy in your profile

The popular dating app has teamed up with the popular rapper for the Put Yourself Out There Challenge to push members to create more authentic profiles.

Tinder’s new relationship goal: Get users to hang out, not just hook up

The popular dating app is relaunching its choose-your-own-adventure dating experience, ‘Swipe Night,’ toward its ultimate goal of being a Gen Z hangout spot.

Tinder’s new relationship goal: Get users to hang out, not just hook up

Surprise marketing discovery! Most successful brands don’t actually keep customers happy

Brands such as Crossfit, Netflix, and Tinder don’t keep you coming back with happiness.

Surprise marketing discovery! Most successful brands don’t actually keep customers happy

Facebook’s SDK is causing Spotify, TikTok, and other popular apps to crash

An issue with Facebook’s software development kit has many apps crashing immediately after users open them.

Facebook’s SDK is causing Spotify, TikTok, and other popular apps to crash

How COVID-19 killed hookup culture and saved romance

The use of Match, OkCupid, Tinder, and Hinge is surging, and video dating is becoming more and more normal, as people look for meaningful connections.

How COVID-19 killed hookup culture and saved romance

Tinder cancels global release of apocalyptic series ‘Swipe Night’ due to coronavirus

Given its end-of-the-world premise and the ongoing COVID-19 crisis, the choose-your-own-adventure style series ‘Swipe Night’ is being postponed.

Tinder cancels global release of apocalyptic series ‘Swipe Night’ due to coronavirus

Here’s how the ‘writers room’ inside a Tinder dude’s head puts together a message

This hilarious video shows what goes through a guy’s mind while crafting an opening message on Tinder. It’s just like the writers room on a bad comedy show.

Here’s how the ‘writers room’ inside a Tinder dude’s head puts together a message

Amazon Prime’s UX works disturbingly well as a dating site

A new parody from Amazon Prime show how its UX works perfectly as a dating site.

Amazon Prime’s UX works disturbingly well as a dating site

Dating app Bumble and its sister apps are now worth $3 billion

A major investment from Blackstone will infuse cash into the dating app group and push Bumble CEO Whitney Wolfe Herd to the top.

Dating app Bumble and its sister apps are now worth $3 billion

Why Apple’s privacy-focused password killer hasn’t taken off yet

“Sign in with Apple” is more private, secure, and convenient than creating yet another password, but few apps support it so far.

Why Apple’s privacy-focused password killer hasn’t taken off yet

Why Tinder really needs you to swipe right on its first original series, ‘Swipe Night’

While you look for love during the apocalypse in the choose-your-own-adventure show, Tinder hopes to boost engagement among its most prized demographic.

Why Tinder really needs you to swipe right on its first original series, ‘Swipe Night’

Facebook’s secret crush? Maybe it’s Match Group

Facebook’s matchmaking ambitions have some investors breaking up with Match Group.

Facebook’s secret crush? Maybe it’s Match Group

Match.com’s dating coaches might help save modern love

Online dating pioneer aims to rejuvenate itself by pursuing the aftermarket for its own business, which dating and relationship coaches have been serving for years.

Match.com’s dating coaches might help save modern love

Impact

More than 10,000 John Deere workers are on strike

Reasons to hope: 16 companies, people, and ideas that might save the planet

7 of the most polluting industries are working on sector-wide strategies for decarbonization

News

With Megan Thee Stallion Hottie Sauce, Popeyes just leveled up in the celebrity arms race

The ‘mountain’ of electronics we discard in 2021 could weigh more than the Great Wall of China

The candy corn debate is over

Co.Design

See NYC’s bold new subway map, inspired by Massimo Vignelli’s 1972 classic

Meet the landscape architect turning Superfund sites into must-see destinations

Sucking CO2 from the sky could help save the planet. But it faces a vexing design problem

Work Life

The science behind 7 great leadership principles

Why startup equity can feel like a scam—and how companies can fix it

Leaders, it’s about time you get comfortable being uncomfortable