Tinder is going to launch its own in-app, one-on-one video chats later this year. Match Group, the brand’s parent company, announced the feature in its earnings release today. Details are scarce, but the fact that Tinder is even going to release this feature is big news. This would be one of the largest feature introductions for the brand, and an especially impressive undertaking considering Tinder has millions of users, and video calls can be places ripe for abuse. The company couldn’t share additional details with The Verge.

Harassment and abuse could be difficult to screen for on video, as opposed to text-based messaging. But presumably, the team is either building its own offensive image detection system or looking to a third party to provide one. Users will also have to get used to the idea of swiping and then chatting with people over video rather than just screening their dates in person.

Otherwise, Match provided updates on its brands’ performance during the COVID-19 pandemic where most of the world is under strict lockdown and unable to meet up for in-person dates. It says it’s seen an uptick in the average Tinder swipes each day and said they reached “all-time highs.” Women users under the age of 30 increased their daily average swipes by 37 percent, Match says, in the month of April compared to the last week of February. The average number of daily messages sent across all of its products, including on Hinge, Match.com, and OkCupid, in the month of April was 27 percent higher than during the last week of February, and for users under the age of 30, it was 35 percent higher.

That said, the company did also note that it saw a decline in first-time paying users from February to March, although the numbers were still higher than last year at this time. It also regained its subscriber momentum from March to April.

“As the lockdowns have dragged on, we have seen some impact on younger male users, while there has been some recovery in the over 30 demographic,” the company says.

Although the dating apps are making changes to their product in an effort to keep people dating, the full impact of the pandemic on dating will likely be seen later this year. If lockdown orders stay in effect around the world, it’s possible people will shelve dating until they can actually meet up in person.

“We are confident that demand for human connection will never dissipate and remain committed to fulfilling that need,” the company said in its earnings note. “This period of social isolation would have been much more dire for single people – who no longer have other avenues to meet and connect such as bars and concerts – if not for our products.”

Source: theverge

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Nokia was the household name in the past, almost everyone either owned a Nokia or had heard about Nokia. But due to other competitors, bringing better hardware and software experience to the customers, it lost the battle to iphones and android devices. But now Nokia is gaining its popularity again. Nokia has been constantly launching their take on every phone segments specially on budget to mid budget phones. Due to this, they already have a couple of phones in the market to take care of.

Now, a new report by Counterpoint Research has ranked Android phone manufacturers by their ability to deliver updates. And according to the same report, Nokia is placed at the first position in providing updates to its phones and currently 96% of its phones are running Android Pie followed by Samsung(89%, Xiaomi(84%), Huawei(82%) and Lenovo(43%).

 

 

To determine the result of the report, Counterpoint looked at the phones sold cumulatively since Q3 2018 by the brands and then checked whether the phones are running on the Android Pie if not has it been updated to Android Pie or not.

Talking about the time taken by the company to update its devices, again Nokia took the no. 1 spot. Nokia updated 94% of its devices in just 12 months followed by Xiaomi(62%), Lenovo(52%), Huawei(40%) Vivo(28%) and Samsung(23%).

 

 

Will Nokia claim back the former glory it once lost? From the looks of it Nokia is in right path of doing so.

Grindr plans to remove an ethnicity filter from the next version of its gay dating app in a show of solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement.

Grindr said the change, which critics have long called for in the spirit of the platform being neutral when it comes to race, was prompted by feedback from users.

"We will not be silent and we will not be inactive," Grindr said in a message posted by its official Twitter account.

"We will continue to fight racism on Grindr, both through dialogue with our community and a zero-tolerance policy for racism and hate speech on our platform."

The move came as the internet was flooded with expressions of support for protests and demonstrations calling for an end to systemic racism in the US.

A "Blackout Tuesday" trend online had ranks of people posting black squares as a way of going silent on social media to show solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement.

Leaders across the United States sought ways Tuesday to stem mounting unrest over police racism, from extending curfews to engaging protesters, as President Donald Trump faced wide criticism for deploying force to break up a peaceful rally.

once-in-a-generation protests have brought a multiracial coalition peacefully to the streets for the past week but each night has descended into mayhem, with both activists and officials blaming rabble-rousers.

The uprising began in the Minnesota city Minneapolis after the May 25 killing of George Floyd, an unarmed African-American man.

Floyd died after he was pinned for nearly nine minutes under the knee of a white police officer, Derek Chauvin, who ignored Floyd's pleas for his life and had remained on the force despite multiple complaints.

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