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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.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 18 2018, @10:05PM (3 children)
The difference is that in regular dating the woman usually doesn't have a dozen or more men queued up. If she says no to one, she doesn't really know when the next one will come around.
I've found getting first dates with women to be trivial, getting second dates to be borderline impossible due to how impossibly picky the women are here. Men, aren't anywhere near as big a problem. I could easily have a new boyfriend by the end of next month without having to lower my standards too much. But, convincing a woman that 90% perfect isn't really settling has proven to be borderline impossible.
It amazes me that we're not going extinct because all the women refuse to go out with the other 85% of the men that the women aren't targeting until the hit the wall and panic. Usually late enough that they're no longer capable of reproduction.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by https on Monday March 19 2018, @03:36AM (2 children)
Women aren't impossibly picky, they just know an asshole when they see one.
Offended and laughing about it.
(Score: 4, Touché) by deimtee on Monday March 19 2018, @08:34AM
Nah, they don't know from seeing. It apparently takes them one date to work it out.
If you cough while drinking cheap red wine it really cleans out your sinuses.
(Score: 3, Informative) by lgsoynews on Monday March 19 2018, @09:55AM
I disagree.
There have been studies that show that on dating sites, women see 80% of men as under average (ie they have impossibly high expectations). Which is obviously a wrong perception, because so many men use those sites that it's certainly not only the Jerks/Desperate (because they are toxic) ones.
I know personally a LOT of people who use dating sites, men & women, of all ages. The distribution of men is clearly extremely wide and includes many good looking (far better than me) and many with good (or tolerable) personalities. I've met many toxic/jerks and awful abusers (some stories are really BAD), but the majority is just your random sample of guys.
BUT they ALL (except the maybe 10% REALLY good looking) complain that using dating sites is hard. That's not to say it doesn't work because it does as I've seen. Unfortunately, expectations (especially for women) are TOO HIGH and this creates a lot of problems.