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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 19 2018, @08:21AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 19 2018, @08:21AM (#654755)

    In France, we have a quite successful dating site that gives ALL the power to women (that's even their tagline). It works that way: you browse the profiles, and when you see a girl's profile that you like, you send her what is basically a "like" (they call it a "charm"), you CANNOT send her a message.

    In Germany too, there are these sites like parship.de or lovescout24.de, and both are horrible. The first one wants something like €70/mo to send messages, which is ridicules. The 2nd one ropes you in, and then has bullshit like "pay €10/mo extra, so women that don't pay can send you message too". It's a total scam. And of course almost all women there are smokers or are "washouts" too, but I guess that come with territory. After 30, all the good ones are gone, right? Do I sound bitter yet?

    The most ridicules thing is these same women will turn around and say "no good men out there" when they would not even want to talk to you to find out in the first place.

    I believe that women are even worse at dating than men are. Especially when it comes to online dating where you have to select from a large cesspool. Women are in better position to do that, but sadly, they don't seem to try. I even had to tell someone not to talk to 1 dude at a time, but to filter as many as she can as otherwise she could be stuck at that forever.

    Fortunately I found someone, so I'm not as bitter as the above alludes to. But it was not where I expected. Maybe that comes with the territory too.