Bumble has lost a third of its Texas workforce in the months since the state passed the controversial abortion SB 8 (Senate Bill 8), also known as the Texas Heartbeat Act, over a year ago. This new data point was shared by Bumble’s Interim General Counsel, Elizabeth Monteleone, speaking on a panel this afternoon at … Read more
Hello, folks, welcome to Week in Review (WiR), TechCrunch’s newsletter covering noteworthy happenings in the tech industry. This week, investment firm KKR announced that it would acquire VMware’s end-user computing business from Broadcom for $4 billion. As Ron explains, that business included VMware Workspace One and VMware Horizon — two remote desktop apps that had … Read more
Bumble, a once-powerful force in online dating, is facing a reckoning. The company posted weak Q4 2023 results today showing a $32 million net loss and $273.6 million in revenue. While up from the same period a year ago, earnings came in below Wall Street expectations and were paired with a disappointing Q1 2024 forecast … Read more
No matter what you’re looking for on a dating app, most of us can agree on one thing: we want to talk to real human beings. No spammers, no scammers, and certainly no fake profiles. Bumble is launching a new AI-powered tool called Deception Detector, to weed out spam, scam, and fake profiles, with the … Read more
Bumble for Friends — the platonic offshoot of Bumble — introduces a couple updates: AI-generated icebreakers, and a new way to organize group get-togethers. Using AI chatbots to get dates isn’t new, but now Bumble for Friends is incorporating the technology to help users get to know a potential pal. According to the press release, … Read more
Hey, folks, and welcome to Week in Review (WiR), TechCrunch’s newsletter covering the past week (or so) in tech industry happenings. This week marked OpenAI’s first-ever dev conference, where the Microsoft-backed AI startup announced a host of new products. But that was far from the only item of note. In this edition of WiR, we … Read more
At Code Conference 2023, Bumble CEO Whitney Wolfe Herd explained how the company wants to increase the use of artificial intelligence in its apps, from coaching users in dating and relationships to one day using AI as intelligent matchmakers to save users a lot of swiping. Herd had first revealed that Bumble was investing in … Read more
Bumble is understood primarily as a courting app, however you can too swipe for pals on Bumble BFF(opens in a brand new tab) (there’s additionally Bumble Bizz for enterprise connections). BFF and Bizz have traditionally been accessible on the identical app as Bumble Date, however in keeping with a supply, that is going to alter. … Read more