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With Match and other online dating companies facing a downturn, Archer’s growth is certainly notable.

Match-owned Archer hits over half a million installs amid dating app slump

Hinge is adding a “Hidden Words” feature to its app, which will filter out likes with comments containing those phrases or words. It pretty much works like a mute filter…

Hinge adds a way to mute requests containing words you specify

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…

Mozilla finds that most dating apps are not great guardians of user data

Tinder-owner Match Group has appointed two new members to its board of directors and signed an agreement with Elliott Management, the company announced on Monday. Chief marketing officer at Instacart…

Match appoints two board directors after talks with activist investor Elliott Management

Twitter’s former head of trust and safety Yoel Roth announced today that he is joining Match Group, the parent company of several popular dating apps, including Tinder and Hinge. Yoel,…

Twitter’s former head of Trust & Safety, Yoel Roth, joins Tinder owner Match Group

In a press release written with help from ChatGPT, Match Group announced an enterprise agreement with the AI chatbot’s maker, OpenAI. The new agreement includes over 1,000 enterprise licenses for…

Match Group inks deal with OpenAI, says press release written by ChatGPT

It may be Valentine’s Day here in the U.S., but the dating app market isn’t looking as promising as it used to. According to a new analysis by app intelligence…

Happy Valentine’s Day, dating app downloads are slowing down

Dating app giant Match Group says it hasn’t yet determined how it plans to adapt its products in light of the EU’s Digital Markets Act (DMA), a new regulation that…

Match Group says it hasn’t yet decided if it will opt into Apple’s new DMA rules

Dating app behemoth Match Group has named Faye Iosotaluno as the new Tinder CEO, two years after the previous CEO Renate Nyborg left the company in August 2022. During that…

Match Group promotes Faye Iosotaluno to Tinder CEO

Tinder is revamping its profile pages to make them more informative and create easier starting points for conversations. The company is launching features like profile prompts as conversation starters, profile…

Tinder redesigns profile pages with prompts, info tags and quiz

Google and Match announced today they’ve reached a settlement in the antitrust battle Match waged against the tech giant, even as the court case continues with Fortnite maker Epic Games.…

Google and Match Group reach settlement in app store antitrust case

Let’s face it: Traditional dating app filters aren’t cutting it. While sharing the same basic interests like yoga or watching movies is nice to have in a relationship, it’s also…

Dating app The League launches ‘GoalMate’ feature to help users find goal-oriented matches

Match Group, the company behind dating apps like Tinder and OkCupid, is getting serious about its relationship with AI. After toying with some AI-powered features on Tinder, Match Group is…

Match Group is going steady with AI, appoints Zynga alum to lead AI-focused team

Tech nonprofit Garbo announced today it’s ending its formal partnership with Match Group, the dating app giant behind Tinder, Plenty of Fish, Match and other apps. The two companies first…

Match Group’s background check provider Garbo ends its partnership

Match is introducing an unconventional way of online dating to its users in order to promote more intentional connections. The dating app announced Tuesday a new time-sensitive feature called “72…

Match launches new live in-app event called ’72 Hours’

Online dating behemoth Match Group is introducing a new gay dating app, just in time for Pride. The company, which owns the lion’s share of the global dating market, is…

Match Group debuts Archer, a new face-first gay dating app for men

Match Group, the parent company of several popular dating apps, including Tinder and Hinge, has announced a revamped executive leadership team. Most notably, the company is bringing on former Vice…

Match restructures executive leadership, hires former Snap VP of Product as new CTO

Match Group, the parent company to dating apps Tinder, Hinge, Match, Plenty of Fish, Meetic and OurTime, among others, announced today the launch of a new campaign that will introduce…

Tinder and other Match dating apps will offer in-app tips on avoiding romance scams

Epic Games and Match Group are looking to fortify their antitrust lawsuits against Google by adding new counts to their initial complaint, filed last year, which illustrate the lengths Google…

Epic Games and Match look to expand their antitrust claims against Google

Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy. Global app spending reached…

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Dating giant Match Group announced a series of changes to Tinder’s management team alongside the announcement of disappointing second-quarter earnings on Tuesday. Notably, Tinder CEO Renate Nyborg will be departing…

Tinder to kill virtual currency, metaverse plans amid Match Group earnings loss; Tinder loses its CEO

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Match Group is expanding a partnership with background check service Garbo, a nonprofit female-and survivor-founded organization, bringing the free safety feature to its namesake app, Match, and the single parent…

Match expands background checks to two more dating apps

Match Group, the parent company of several popular dating apps, including Tinder and Hinge, has acquired the exclusive dating app The League, a spokesperson from the company confirmed to TechCrunch.…

Match Group acquires members-only dating app The League for ~$30M

Google has responded to dating app maker Match Group’s antitrust lawsuit in a scathing new court filing which refers to Match’s original complaint as a “cynical attempt” to take advantage…

Google files counterclaim to Match’s antitrust lawsuit, says Match wants to use its services for free

Google said Thursday it will pay $90 million to settle a lawsuit with U.S. developers that accused Google of abusing its power of app distribution and charging an unfair fee…

Google will reimburse developers $90 million to settle a lawsuit over Play Store earnings

Epic Games isn’t just fighting the app stores over the right to process its own in-app payments in its popular game Fortnite, it’s also taken up its antitrust legal battle…

Epic Games’ Bandcamp temporarily wins right to use its own payments system on Google Play

Match Group, the parent company of dating apps Tinder, Hinge and OkCupid, is getting along better with Google, just by a little bit. On Friday, Match withdrew its request for…

Match Group and Google reach an interim compromise over app payments

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The parent company of dating apps Tinder, Match and OkCupid is suing Google, alleging that the company exerts too much control over payments through its Google Play app marketplace. The…

Match Group sues Google over ‘monopoly power’ in Android app payments