ICICI Securities cut Matrimony.com to ADD from BUY, lifting its target to INR 690, after Q2 FY27 profit rose about 167%. Shares fell as much as 5% on 12 November.
Hello Group swung to RMB238.4M net income in Q2 2026 but guided Q3 net revenues of RMB2.4B to RMB2.5B, down 5.7% to 9.4% year on year.
A Boston grand jury indicted Revere's Maria Rezende, 66, on one wire fraud count over an alleged romance scheme that took over $1M from an 85-year-old man.
Ohio Attorney General Andy Wilson's romance scam hotline, 1-855-961-SCAM, is cited alongside FBI data showing $584M in 2025 losses among Americans aged 60+.
Ireland's Data Protection Commission fined MTCH Technology Services €11M over Tinder's Download My Data tool and ordered compliance in three months.
Arianna Stark, recruited by an online romance scammer, pleaded guilty to money laundering in Ohio after a phishing fraud took over $80,000 from a Zanesville business.
Coffee Meets Bagel's Love & Money report says 86% of 3,388 surveyed US members would pick a $70,000 saver over a $250,000 spender. DII reads the data.
Vienna's Singles in the City is marketing moderated speed-dating at €30 a ticket, with its next event on 16 November 2026 at Latidos in the 3rd district.
Meetic posted its "Célib en France" study with the Kinsey Institute on 9 November: 73% of 1,011 French singles say they are happy with their life.
Sen. Maggie Hassan and Sen. Rick Scott's ReportScams.gov Act would route scam reports to law enforcement via one portal, as Hassan probes Match Group.
Malware News reposted a Cognyte blog on 11 November restating FBI IC3 figures: 23,159 confidence/romance complaints and $929.3M in 2025 losses, up about 38%.
Matrimony.com's board approved a Rs 8 crore cash purchase of a further 50% of Astro-Vision Futuretech, lifting its stake from 26.09% to 76.09%.
Seoul will hold its final 2026 Seoulting matchmaking event at DDP on 12 December, with places up from 100 to 150 and applications open 12 to 30 November.
Tinder Events went live in the UK on 11 November 2026, with independent organisers ticketing. Tinder says 55% of eligible 18 to 24s engaged across 56 cities.
Seeking announced an Anti 50/50 Campaign fronted by Julia Fox on 10 November, with a $50,000 fund paying singles up to $50 if asked to split the bill.
Stud or Dud's survey of 1,000 US adults puts fake or misleading profiles at 46% as top dating frustration, ahead of ghosting at 30%. It is vendor research.
MarketBeat says 17 firms rate Bumble Reduce with a $4.04 average target, while Ithaca Holdings has agreed to pay $6.05 a share in cash to take it private.
Matrimony.com's H1 FY27 net profit rose 146.6% to INR 398M as matchmaking EBITDA margin hit 28.3% and total expenses rose just 1.9%. Results are unaudited.
DatingScout's State of Online Dating 2026 covers 53,902 respondents in 18 countries. 40.4% of US women want a homeowner, against 18.9% of US men.
Verified Love, based in Montreal, launched a free platform to flag dating scams on 10 November 2026. The FBI logged 23,159 romance fraud complaints in 2025.
Police in Jaisalmer, India, say they arrested six suspects within two hours of a complaint that a man lured via Grindr was abducted and forced to transfer Rs 1.42 lakh.
Chapter 2 founder Nicky Wake told Forbes she has raised over $600,000 from members of her widowed-singles dating site and is preparing a new funding round.
The US Attorney's Office in Massachusetts filed a civil forfeiture action on 9 November for about 456,602 USDT allegedly tied to romance fraud on dating sites and Facebook.
GENZA, from Genza Inc., launches in Los Angeles with AI-picked pairs and 3D co-op games instead of swiping. Its soft launch drew 2,000+ members, it says.
Thai police detained 10 foreigners in a 9 November raid on a Pattaya pool house, with about 350 million baht in transfers traced to a romance-investment scam.
Shenzhen start-up Liangpei AI offers a refund of its 2,000-yuan fee to members not married within three years, Sixth Tone reports. It has 9,300+ active users.
On the Q3 2026 call, Match Group CEO Spencer Rascoff said Tinder's Double Date has delivered 30 million matches and Groups has launched in the US.
Seongnam's city-run SOLOMON's Choice matched 198 couples among 800 participants in eight 2026 events, a 49.5% annual match rate, Seoul Economic Daily reports.
Grindr CEO George Arison said on the Q3 call that about $10M of telehealth ad revenue goes after the Freddie deal, with ads falling to 15%-16% of revenue.
An Istanbul court ordered access blocked to nine dating platforms, including OkCupid and Feeld, on 4 November 2026. No grounds were published for the ruling.
TechCrunch reported Known raised $9.7M from Forerunner, NFX, Pear VC and Coelius Capital for its voice-AI matchmaking app, now live in San Francisco.
Thai police arrested a 37-year-old man at Klong Prem prison on 3 November over mule accounts tied to a romance-investment scam that cost one victim 10.1M baht.
Grindr closed its $250M purchase of PurposeMed, parent of PrEP provider Freddie, on 2 November: $190M cash, $60M stock and up to $70M more in 2028.
Grindr says nearly 400,000 people registered for early access to its $120-a-month Edge tier within 72 hours, almost four times its 100,000 stretch goal.
Cape Town Metro Police detained two men aged 20 to 25 over an alleged dating scam syndicate accused of drugging and robbing victims. Four POS devices were found.
Rithy Ham, 45, pleaded guilty to wire fraud and money laundering after posing as two women to take $333,249.52 from a Portland, Oregon victim.
Da Nang police say they arrested 13 foreigners, two Chinese and 11 Indonesians, over an alleged WhatsApp and Telegram romance scam run from a villa with 87 phones.
Veriff launched Presence Verification on 5 November, pairing liveness with deepfake and coercion detection and claiming over 98% coercion accuracy.
Grindr filed an 8-K on 5 November 2026 furnishing Q3 results. The test is a $116M year-ago base, $540M guidance and a first 2027 outlook for the Freddie deal.
Hello Group will publish unaudited Q3 2026 results on 7 December. Its September guidance points to revenue of RMB2.4B to RMB2.5B, down 9.4% to 5.7%.
Kelleher International named Jennifer Wills sole CEO on 4 November 2026, six months after she became co-CEO, and plans a matchmaking platform in 2027.
Malaysian police arrested 35 foreign nationals in Bayan Lepas, Penang, over an alleged Telegram love and gold-investment scam, seizing 119 phones.
Coffee Meets Bagel launched in Australia in September with up to 22 daily matches, backed by a YouGov survey of 1,063 Australians aged 21-35 from November 2025.
Bumble's 10-Q shows Q3 revenue down to $207.1M from $246.2M and paying users near 3.08M, while the $1.3B Ithaca take-private awaits regulatory approval.
Philippine immigration intercepted two South Korean Interpol Red Notice subjects at NAIA. One is accused of working for a Cambodia romance scam syndicate.
Supela police raided a Bhilai call centre on 29 October and arrested Parmanand Yadav, 24, over alleged AI-generated bride ads that collected ₹2,000 fees.
Fledge, run by Fleamily, Inc., launches in New York, its first US market, with Big Five personality matching and offline events. It claims 1M+ members.
A Harris Poll survey for World says 74% of US online daters have suspected a match was not real. It polled 892 single adults, 649 of them app users.
Apple will make developers declare Dating and Relationships features from 16 November 2026, with a minimum 18+ rating and all declarations due by 12 January 2027.
Match Group says Hinge is testing a lower-priced tier with extra filters and custom location boundaries, with a Q4 rollout expected. Hinge payers rose 23%.