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Tinder Parent Company Sues Rival Dating App that It Wants to Acquire

posted by martyb on Sunday March 18 2018, @04:35PM   Printer-friendly
from the burning-desire? dept.

takyon writes:

Tinder's parent company, Match Group, wants to acquire Bumble, which rejected a $450 million offer from Match Group last year. Match Group appears to be forcing the issue with a patent infringement lawsuit:

Match Group, the online dating company that owns services like Tinder and Match.com, wants to buy Bumble, another popular dating app that lets women make the first move.

But Match may be trying to push the deal along in an unconventional way: A new patent infringement lawsuit filed late Friday in U.S. District court in Waco, Texas.

Match Group is suing Bumble, which was founded by one of Tinder's co-founders, for infringing on two of its patents, including a design patent for Tinder's now-famous swipe-to-connect feature, according to the suit.

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Azuma Hazuki on Sunday March 18 2018, @08:00PM (6 children)

    by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Sunday March 18 2018, @08:00PM (#654564) Journal

    You know, every year I am more and more amazed that there are 7.5+ billion of us and exponentially growing. The hetero mating game is a complete bloody mess.

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  • (Score: 0, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 18 2018, @10:11PM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 18 2018, @10:11PM (#654600)

    The thing which amazes me is the number of women that whine about the men they meet, but the concept of actually going after better men by chatting them up or outright asking them out is foreign to them.

    If you're trying to attract somebody, you're limited to those somebodies that float by and notice. If you actually shoulder some of the responsibility, then you'll still have to meet them, but you won't have to worry about whether or not they've noticed.

    Men get screwed in the bad way over this, because we usually have to make the first move, so if making the first move isn't working, there's not really much else we can do. Whereas if a woman isn't attracting the kind of men that she wants, she has a lot more room to work with, not just fixing her strategy for meeting and attracting men, but to actually take some initiative by asking.

    • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Monday March 19 2018, @02:08AM (2 children)

      by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Monday March 19 2018, @02:08AM (#654653) Journal

      Yeah again: HOW are there 7.5 billion and change of us? @_@ This is insanity.

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      • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 19 2018, @03:07AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 19 2018, @03:07AM (#654666)

        Yeah again: HOW are there 7.5 billion and change of us?

        Alcohol.

      • (Score: 2) by FatPhil on Monday March 19 2018, @09:46PM

        by FatPhil (863) <reversethis-{if.fdsa} {ta} {tnelyos-cp}> on Monday March 19 2018, @09:46PM (#655146) Homepage
        Lack of education. The correlation (in a context that strongly implies causation) between improved female education, and sprogging rate is very strongly negative. Education is highly enabling, letting women chose the life they want to lead, rather than having no options and their future forced upon them as part of an outdated, little better than stone-age, cultural script. And that's not just STEM/humanities/art education, that's sexual and sexual health education too.
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  • (Score: 2) by FatPhil on Monday March 19 2018, @11:42AM (1 child)

    by FatPhil (863) <reversethis-{if.fdsa} {ta} {tnelyos-cp}> on Monday March 19 2018, @11:42AM (#654814) Homepage
    Hey, we heteros aren't all breeders, you know!
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    • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Monday March 19 2018, @07:19PM

      by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Monday March 19 2018, @07:19PM (#655071) Journal

      Yeah, which makes it even more baffling. AC below says "alcohol," but I have a bad feeling it's really more like "a lot of rape in third-world countries."

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