Hayley Birkin

The Lox Club, a dating app for Jewish and "Jew-ish" singles, launches in London on 30 January after four years of US operations, the company says.

Match Group has joined Stop Scams UK, linking Tinder, Hinge and Plenty of Fish to a shared fraud network with banks, Meta and BT.

Raw Dating exposed data on over 500,000 users through an unsecured API and never implemented its advertised encryption, then closed in January 2025.

GDI's North America dating conference in New York on 19 March 2026 has brand tickets at £249 early bird and fixed £999 vendor tickets.

Grindr is limiting its AI conversation summary feature to 25% of Unlimited subscribers, about 2.5% of its total subscribers, after halving AI costs.

Match Group is relaunching Pairs in South Korea, where marriages have fallen 40% since 2014, while its Asia revenue fell 6% in Q4 2024.

Sitch, a New York dating startup, raised $2M in pre-seed funding led by a16z's Speedrun and refunds users who are ghosted after paid matches.

Match Group is spending £1 million on a Hinge fund for London meetups. The US version subsidised 3,500 events attended by 125,000 people.

Whitney Wolfe Herd has returned as Bumble CEO after 14 months, replacing Lidiane Jones, with the share price down 91% from its 2021 peak.

Quickmeets, a Penn graduate's dating app, uses AI to match users with lookalikes of uploaded celebrity photos at seven US universities.

Lunch Actually has acquired dating app Paktor, forming a hybrid matchmaking and app business across six Asian markets.

eHarmony says Imperial College research links dating app swiping to hormonal changes like gambling addiction, but the sample size is undisclosed.

A Journal of Interpersonal Violence study of 5,000 men found child sex offenders are significantly more likely to use dating apps.

Washington's House Bill 1870 would tax dating app users $1 a month, aimed at platforms with over 500,000 accounts, to fund domestic violence programmes.

Match Group named Spencer Rascoff CEO, its fourth in six years, as Bumble brought back founder Whitney Wolfe Herd after 24 months under Lidiane Jones.

The Lox Club, a members-only Jewish dating app, launches in London next week, its first international expansion since its US launch four years ago.

POPCORN, a rebranding pseudonymous sex-dating platform, has launched an English and Spanish survey on women's dating app preferences.

Tinder is running ExCycle, a two-day New York pop-up that upcycles clothes from past relationships, as it tests post-breakup retention.

Dating apps, mainly Grindr, distributed over 500,000 free HIV test kits via Building Healthy Online Communities between 2023 and early 2025.

Match Group's annual report puts social ads at 67% of performance marketing spend, up from 54% in 2021, exposing dating apps to platform shifts.