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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, @10:51AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 19 2018, @10:51AM (#654793)

    Apparently, with Bumble, only women are allowed to start the conversation with a potential match.

    How is that working out for them? I mean with the number of "where have all the good men gone?" articles lately by women complaining about men not taking the initiative anymore, telling men to "man up" and ask them out, because the alternative - to start asking men out themselves - is too horrible to even consider...