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Grindr’s owners may take it private after a financial squeeze

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Grindr’s majority owners are scrambling to take the LGBTQ+ dating app private after a stock decline triggered a personal financial crisis, according to a report from Semafor. The owners in question are Raymond Zage, a former hedge fund manager and U.S. expat now based in Singapore, and James Lu, a Chinese-American entrepreneur and former Amazon […]

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Bumble and Hinge allowed stalkers to pinpoint users’ locations down to 2 meters, researchers say

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A group of researchers said they found that vulnerabilities in the design of some dating apps, including the popular Bumble and Hinge, allowed malicious users or stalkers to pinpoint the location of their victims down to 2 meters.  In a new academic paper, researchers from the Belgian university KU Leuven detailed their findings when they

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