The Irish Times

Gay dating app Grindr to go public in $2.1bn Spac deal

Merger comes two years after Kunlun Tech divested it due to national security concerns

Tue May 10 2022 - 09:33

Tinder founders go to court over bitter break-up with Barry Diller

Entrepreneurs allege they have been cheated out of billions of dollars

Mon Nov 01 2021 - 10:46

Couzens used his police ID to falsely arrest and handcuff Sarah Everard

Officer killed 33-year-old after apprehending her under pretence she had breached Covid rules

Wed Sept 29 2021 - 16:06

Facebook enters the metaverse, and Olympics near the finish line

Planet Business: Dating apps rake in the dosh, and jabs become a job requirement

Sat Aug 07 2021 - 05:40

Bennifer are back. Here’s why you shouldn’t rush to contact your own ex

J Lo and Ben Affleck did it, but experts urge restraint after lockdown’s ‘rekindled romance’ trend

Wed Aug 04 2021 - 10:54

HSE links with dating apps to encourage young people to get Covid vaccine

Tinder, Hinge and Match among the firms offering ’super likes’ to support vaccines

Thu Jul 15 2021 - 12:49

Apple to lower App Store fees for smaller developers

Tech giant to halve fees for software developers who make $1m or less each year

Wed Nov 18 2020 - 12:48

Apple conflict with developers escalates ahead of conference

Third-party developers say group wields monopoly power by imposing ‘tax’ on payments

Mon Jun 22 2020 - 12:37

Tinder takes on fraudsters by asking for real-time photo

Dating app to make it harder for fraudsters to make fake profiles

Thu Jan 30 2020 - 07:00

European shares inch up in languid pre-Christmas trade

Healthcare, oil and gas sectors lead gains in otherwise quiet day as thoughts turn to 2020

Thu Dec 19 2019 - 19:54

Dating apps move past their shaky start

Array of online dating tools includes one designed by an Irish software developer

Thu Aug 29 2019 - 05:16

‘Fast sex, slow love’: How Irish relationships have changed

We have more choice than ever, but we are still in thrall to the concept of marriage. Why?

Sat May 11 2019 - 06:04

Stock plunges, Tinder surges and water for ‘straight-edge punks’

Planet Business: Tense and thirsty times, for everybody except Match Group

Thu May 09 2019 - 05:27

Single and over 50? Lumen promises you appy ever after

The dating app for 50-and-over singletons avoids the quick-swipe style of Tinder

Thu Nov 29 2018 - 07:15

German broadcaster buys US dating site eharmony

ProSieben already owns stake in Parship Elite, a successful German dating business

Mon Oct 29 2018 - 19:38

Tinder trouble, Turkish crisis and the new man at the top of country music

Planet Business: Also this week, liveable cities and the ‘Reed Hastings rule’

Fri Aug 17 2018 - 05:39

How many ‘likes’ will Facebook get for its new online dating business?

The social network has many advantages but the market is crowded

Wed May 09 2018 - 14:04

Denis’s executive jet, the man suing France and Facebook’s dating intentions

Planet Business: in May Day week, some people are ‘in the money’, others not so much

Fri May 04 2018 - 04:30

Facebook announces plans for first dating service

Shares of Tinder parent group slide as Zuckerberg seeks to help network’s 200m singles

Tue May 01 2018 - 20:34

Hosting Amazon's HQ may incur a bill not worth paying

Net Results: Geo-corporate mating ritual takes place oblivious of potential downsides

Thu Mar 08 2018 - 06:00

Irish software start-up looking to raise €600,000

CloudKPI to participate in Women’s Startup Lab in Silicon Valley as it expands into US

Mon Sept 04 2017 - 07:05

Cameron expresses confidence in Whittingdale over sex worker story

Four newspapers knew of relationship with dominatrix but did not publish the story

Wed Apr 13 2016 - 18:57

Conservative MP under pressure over relationship with sex worker

John Whittingdale had made a number of favourable press decisions in recent times

Wed Apr 13 2016 - 10:22

Online dating: too much of a good thing?

We can write a wish list – and weed out unsuitables – but research shows we are terrible at knowing what we actually want in a mate, so does online dating make it any easier to find Ms or Mr Right?

Fri Feb 05 2016 - 12:30

Le Pen’s National Front loses election run-offs - exit polls

If confirmed, results will be huge disappointment for far-right leader

Sun Dec 13 2015 - 19:26

European tech IPOs are beating Silicon Valley start-ups

There has never been a better time for European tech investos say

Mon Nov 30 2015 - 07:44

Twitter chief’s Square jumps in market debut

Result bucks trend of IPOs which are trading down about 5%

Fri Nov 20 2015 - 08:51

Square’s market debut sees shares soar 64%

Mobile phone company’s strong opening offered hope to start-ups hoping to go public

Thu Nov 19 2015 - 20:48

Group behind Tinder to go public

Match Group plans to raise about $403.7 million in an initial public offering

Mon Nov 09 2015 - 12:11

Bebo man: Founder of one-time rival to Facebook is still in start-up mode

Michael Birch and his wife, Xochi, sold Bebo for $850m. Now their latest platform, Blab, is beginning to take off

Thu Sept 17 2015 - 09:00

Ashley Madison affair: When technology meets security risk meets stupid

The ‘terror’ a cheating spouse experiences as they fear being found out is not remotely equatable with suicide bombings or crashing a plane

Thu Jul 23 2015 - 06:45

Our Wedding Story: we met on match.com

Svenja Stahl and Colin Hayes tied the knot at Kinnitty Castle in Offaly

Sat Jul 18 2015 - 04:00

PlentyOfFish a good catch for Match.com owner at $575m

Some 80% of PlentyOfFish members access the service via mobile

Tue Jul 14 2015 - 18:31

Book review: Everything I Ever Needed to Know about Economics I Learned from Online Dating

Paul Oyer. Harvard Business Review Press. €22.99

Mon Dec 16 2013 - 01:00