Friday, November 22

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Tinder Fires Comms Head & other Employees who Sued the Company
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Tinder Fires Comms Head & other Employees who Sued the Company

The popular dating app Tinder  has reportedly fired its vice president of marketing and communications Rosette Pambakian, as well as other employees who sued Tinder’s parent company Match Group and its controlling shareholder IAC. A Match Group spokesperson confirmed that a number of Tinder employees have been terminated, though they did not identify them or say how many were involved. With this, the lawsuit was filed by Tinder co-founders Sean Rad, Justin Mateen and Jonathan Badeen and other executives. Some, like Rad, had already left Tinder, while others like Pambakian and Badeen, were still employed at the time. In the suit, the group alleged that IAC  and Match Group had manipulated financial data in order to lower the company’s valuation. They also alleged that Greg Blatt, w...
Tinder App Launches 23 New Gender Options in India
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Tinder App Launches 23 New Gender Options in India

The popular dating app Tinder has launched 23 new gender options for users in India. This will enable the users to add gender information which they believe represents them most authentically. So far, Tinder users in India were offered only two options when selecting their gender: man or woman. For users who are identified as transgender, gender neutral or somewhere between or outside the gender binary posed an obvious challenge. "Users are best to assert their own identity and our latest update gives them the opportunity to decide how to express themselves authentically and it has been a good year in India for gender, sexuality and personal autonomy," Taru Kapoor, General Manager, Tinder India said. With this new update, the users will be able to type any word that describes their ge...