Bumble lost a third of its Texas workforce after state passed restrictive ‘Heartbeat Act’ abortion bill
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by Sarah Perez
2w ago
Bumble has lost a third of its Texas workforce in the months since the state passed the controversial abortion SB 8 (Senate Bill 8), also known as the Texas Heartbeat Act, over a year ago. This new data point was shared by Bumble’s Interim General Counsel, Elizabeth Monteleone, speaking on a panel this afternoon at […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only ..read more
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Bumble cuts ~350 employees as dating apps face a reckoning
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by Kyle Wiggers
1M ago
Bumble, a once-powerful force in online dating, is facing a reckoning. The company posted weak Q4 2023 results today showing a $32 million net loss and $273.6 million in revenue. While up from the same period a year ago, earnings came in below Wall Street expectations and were paired with a disappointing Q1 2024 forecast […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only ..read more
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Bumble’s new AI tool identifies and blocks scam accounts, fake profiles
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by Aisha Malik
1M ago
Bumble announced today that it’s launching a new AI-powered feature that is designed to help identify spam, scams and fake profiles. The new tool, called Deception Detector, aims to take action on malicious content before Bumble users ever come across it. In testing, Bumble found that the tool was able to automatically block 95% of […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only ..read more
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Bumble For Friends is using AI to help you write a good icebreaker message
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by Ivan Mehta
4M ago
Bumble For Friends, Bumble’s second app that focuses on friend-finding, announced new features today including ‘Plans’ in case you want to plan a meet-up and AI-powered icebreaker suggestions. The Plans feature helps users meet in real life with the ability to form a group of up to 15 people. Users can create a private or […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only ..read more
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Sources confirm that Salesforce intends to announce new Slack CEO next week
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by Ron Miller
5M ago
It was a whirlwind kind of day at Salesforce and Slack as the company learned that Slack CEO Lidiane Jones would be leaving at the end of the year to become CEO at dating app Bumble. Sources, who chose to speak on background because they were not authorized to speak on behalf of the company, […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only ..read more
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Bumble announces Slack CEO Lidiane Jones will be its new chief exec
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by Sarah Perez
5M ago
In a fast-moving news cycle, a personnel change wouldn’t seem to catch our attention, but this morning dating app Bumble announced a doozy: It’s replacing founder CEO Whitney Wolfe Herd with Slack CEO Lidiane Jones. Jones only started as CEO at Slack last year, replacing another founder CEO, Stewart Butterfield. Jones, whose background includes various […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only ..read more
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Bumble CEO Whitney Wolfe Herd shares how AI will ‘supercharge’ love with digital matchmakers
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by Sarah Perez
6M ago
Bumble, Inc. CEO Whitney Wolfe Herd believes the power of AI technology will lead to a better online dating experience for her apps’ users. Speaking at the Code Conference on Wednesday, the Bumble and Badoo exec shared how her company uses AI technology to improve matching and other aspects of the business. While she noted ..read more
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Bumble changes its policy to crack down on bots, ghosting, and doxing
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by Ivan Mehta
7M ago
Dating app company Bumble has released its updated community guidelines with an aim to crack down on bots, spam, ghosting, and doxing. The new policy will apply to its dating app Badoo along with Bumble. The platform is revamping its rules to weed out bots by banning actions like artificially influencing “connections, matching, conversations, or ..read more
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Bumble launches a separate BFF app for friend friending
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by Ivan Mehta
8M ago
Dating app company Bumble announced today that it is releasing a separate app called “Bumble for Friends” aimed at finding friends in Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, the Philippines, the U.K. and the U.S. Bumble originally launched BFF mode in the main app in 2016. With this new app, it aims to cater to people looking for platonic connections. Last month, the company confirmed to TechCrunch that it was testing the app in some markets, including the U.K. At that time, the dating app said that BFF mode represents 15% of the main apps’ monthly active users. Now, it has officially la ..read more
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Barbie and Ken are your dating coaches in Bumble’s newest feature
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by Lauren Forristal
9M ago
Ahead of the highly anticipated “Barbie” premiere on July 21, Bumble is launching a new experience where users can get message suggestions from all the Barbies and Kens featured in the movie, including main Barbie (played by Margot Robbie), President Barbie (Issa Rae), Ken No. 2 (Simu Lu) and more. The message suggestions will be part of Bumble’s existing “Compliments” feature, which allows users to send a note to someone before matching with them. As part of the new experience, Barbie and her friends will encourage users to send a Compliment to their matches and recommend things to say like ..read more
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