Allowing women to make the first move has been Bumble’s modus operandi ever since it launched in 2014. A decade later, the company wants to give women even more control. “Opening Move” is a new feature it’s introducing to let women pre-write an opening line so they can quickly send a message without having to […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only ..read more

Dating apps are not following great privacy practices and are collecting more data than ever in order to woo Gen Z users, a new study by Mozilla pointed out. Researchers reviewed dating apps in terms of privacy in 2021. In the latest report, they noted that dating apps have become more data-hungry and intrusive. The organization […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only ..read more

The bigger concern for Bumble is user fatigue. People aren't downloading dating apps as enthusiastically as they once were, which means less subscription revenue. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only ..read more

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

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

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

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

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

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

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