Friday, September 28, 2018

Facebook hack affecting 50 million people also let the attackers access users' Tinder ...



https://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-hack-tinder-instagram-spotify-accounts-2018-9

A Match "glitch" reactivated a bunch of old profiles, raising concerns about user data
https://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2018/04/a-match-glitch-reactivated-bunch-of-old.html


The "Russians" again?
about article: In Tinder vs. Bumble, a Texas Showdown Takes Shape
https://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2018/07/about-article-in-tinder-vs-bumble-texas.html

Espionage is for economic interests
https://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2013/11/espionage-is-for-economic-interests.html

Why USA state spying is good; and Chinese state spying is bad ?
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/05/why-usa-state-spying-is-good-and.html

JOHN MCAFEE: The NSA's back door has given every US secret to our enemies
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/02/john-mcafee-nsas-back-door-has-given.html

article: What Exactly Are the USA NSA Hackers Trying to Accomplish?
https://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2016/08/article-what-exactly-are-usa-nsa.html


ALERT Hacktivist collective The Impact Team could be targeting Twitter, Facebook and other giant sites
Like Match Group?

http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/08/alert-hacktivist-collective-impact-team.html
 
ALERT Russian-speaking hackers breach 97 websites, many of them online dating ones.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/08/alert-russian-speaking-hackers-breach.html

Sunday, September 23, 2018

Seven reasons not to trust Facebook to play cupid ??? via TechCrunch



https://techcrunch.com/2018/09/22/seven-reasons-not-to-trust-facebook-to-play-cupid/
"If you feel moved to text an up-front marriage proposal — feeling 100% confident in Facebook’s data scientists’ prowess in reading the social media tea leaves and plucking your future life partner out of the mix"

If Facebook received help of former eHarmony's team?
https://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2018/05/tc-article-facebook-hired-eharmonys.html

Facebook Dating, via Noticias Caracol
https://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2018/09/facebook-dating-via-noticias-caracol.html



Chief Scientist At eHarmony Cavorts With The ... Facebook
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2018/01/about-chief-scientist-at-eharmony.html
My bet: He is copycatting WATSON IBM, in same manner as Dr. Galen Buckwalter did (Soulmates.ai), but Buckwalter used the HEXACO model of personality (BIG FIVE, or OCEAN is obsolete now)

Personality Based Recommender Systems are the next generation of recommender systems because they perform far better than Behavioural ones (past actions and pattern of personal preferences)

That is the only way to improve recommender systems, to include the personality traits of their users.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/01/paper-comparative-study-of-people-to_14.html  

They need to calculate personality similarity between users but there are different formulas to calculate similarity.

In case you did not see, recommender systems are morphing to compatibility matching engines, as the same used in the Online Dating Industry for years, with low success rates until now because they mostly use the Big Five model to assess personality and the Pearson correlation coefficient to calculate similarity.
Please remember: Personality traits are highly stable in persons over 25 years old to 45 years old. 

The key to long-lasting romance: COMPATIBILITY is exactly STRICT PERSONALITY SIMILARITY and not "meet other people with similar interests or political views".  

Which is the RIGHT approach to innovate in the Personality Based Recommender Systems Arena? 
The same approach to innovate in the Online Dating Industry == 16PF5 test or similar to assess personality traits and a new method to calculate similarity between quantized patterns.
Online Dating sites have very big databases, in the range of 20,000,000 (twenty million) profiles, so the Big Five model or the HEXACO model are not enough for predictive purposes. That is why I suggest the 16PF5 test instead and another method to calculate similarity.

High precision in matching algorithms is precisely the key to open the door and leave the infancy of compatibility testing.
Without offering the NORMATIVE 16PF5 (or similar test measuring exactly the 16 personality factors) for serious dating, it will be impossible to innovate and revolutionize the Online Dating Industry.

 
WorldWide, there are over 5,000 (five thousand) online dating sites:

- but no one is using the 16PF5 (or similar) to assess personality of its members!

- but no one calculates similarity with a quantized pattern comparison method!

- but no one can show Compatibility Distribution Curves to each and every of its members!!! i.e. if you are a man seeking women, to show how compatible you are with a 20,000,000 women database, and to select a bunch of 100 women from 20,000,000 women database.

- but no one is scientifically proven!  No actual online dating site  is "scientifically proven" because no one can prove its matching algorithm can match prospective partners who will have more stable and satisfying relationships (and very low divorce rates) than couples matched by chance, astrological destiny, personal preferences, searching on one's own, or other technique as the control group in a peer reviewed Scientific Paper for the majority (over 90%) of its members.

The 8 tips to innovate in the Online Dating Industry!
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2013/12/the-8-tips-to-innovate-in-online-dating.html 

Saturday, September 22, 2018

Thesis: Predicting Personality Traits Using Smartphone Sensor Data and App Usage Data





https://ecommons.usask.ca/bitstream/handle/10388/10691/KAMBHAM-THESIS-2018.pdf 

AGAIN the obsolete Big Five normative test.
https://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2017/10/again-obsolete-big-five-normative-test.html



BIG HOAX, SAME AS Watson IBM
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/01/artificial-intelligence-can-watson-save.html


Finally the perfect dating algorithm? Of course NOT, Big Five test is OBSOLETE.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/02/finally-perfect-dating-algorithm-of.html

TERRIBLE BIG DISTORTION!!!


The Big Five normative personality test is obsolete, it has been proven as an incomplete and incorrect model of personality.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/09/online-dating-pioneer-algorithmic.html
The HEXACO (a.k.a. Big Six) is another oversimplification. 


Online Dating sites have very big databases, in the range of 20,000,000 (twenty million) profiles, so the Big Five model or the HEXACO model are not enough for predictive purposes. That is why I suggest the 16PF5 test instead and another method to calculate similarity.

High precision in matching algorithms is precisely the key to open the door and leave the infancy of compatibility testing.
Without offering the NORMATIVE 16PF5 (or similar test measuring exactly the 16 personality factors) for serious dating, it will be impossible to innovate and revolutionize the Online Dating Industry.


The Online Dating Industry does not need a 10% improvement, a 50% improvement or a 100% improvement. It does need "a 100 times better improvement"

All other proposals are NOISE and perform as placebo
 

 

Friday, September 21, 2018

Facebook Dating, via Noticias Caracol



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oX72_s2b2JI

Facebook Dating: launched in Colombia via TechCrunch
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2018/09/facebook-dating-launched-in-colombia.html

Please see PAPER: Aspirational pursuit of mates in online dating markets
https://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2018/08/paper-aspirational-pursuit-of-mates-in.html
The paper shows no more than "People often report partner preferences that are not compatible with their choices in real life. " discovered some years ago. And of course it is
BIG PUNCH to Behavioural Recommender Systems / Recommendation Engines for Online Dating sites.
[No dating apps] are trying to pair you up based on whether you like Colgate or Crest.
https://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2018/01/no-dating-apps-are-trying-to-pair-you.html

Facebook seeks right formula as it courts dating market
https://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2018/05/facebook-seeks-right-formula-as-it.html

AGAIN the obsolete Big Five normative test.
https://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2017/10/again-obsolete-big-five-normative-test.html
Compatibility is all about a high level on personality similarity between prospective mates for long term mating with commitment, and not meet other people with similar interests or political views.

High precision in matching algorithms is precisely the key to open the door and leave the infancy of compatibility testing.
 
Without offering the NORMATIVE 16PF5 (or similar test measuring exactly the 16 personality factors) for serious dating, it will be impossible to innovate and revolutionize the Online Dating Industry.
 

Lack Of Innovation and Decadence can summarize the Online Dating Industry.
C-Level executives are more worried about their golf scores than their company’s long term strategy and innovations.
C-level executives are cooking barbecues under the water (selling smoke) and not paying attention to latest research from Academics which could be beneficial for the Online Dating Industry.
 
 
The 8 tips to innovate in the Online Dating Industry!
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2013/12/the-8-tips-to-innovate-in-online-dating.html

Thursday, September 20, 2018

Facebook Dating: launched in Colombia via TechCrunch




https://techcrunch.com/2018/09/20/how-facebook-dating-works/
https://twitter.com/datinginsider/status/1042762491095339008


(It seems) Facebook Dating will suggest matches from Dating Groups
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2018/09/it-seems-facebook-dating-will-suggest.html
NO INNOVATION AT ALL, the same as any online dating site!
The Online Dating Industry needs INNOVATIONS, not more bells and whistles.
What is important in attracting people to one another may not be important in making couples happy.
Compatibility is all about a high level on personality similarity between prospective mates for long term mating with commitment, and not meet other people with similar interests or political views.



The 8 tips to innovate in the Online Dating Industry!
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2013/12/the-8-tips-to-innovate-in-online-dating.html

Monday, September 17, 2018

Lumen by Badoo: 'Tinder For Seniors' And It Just Launched


https://www.forbes.com/sites/paularmstrongtech/2018/09/16/lumen-is-tinder-for-seniors-and-it-just-launched/

Bumble is backed by Badoo (80%, majority-owned by Badoo)
It is said Badoo is related to Russian mafia of white hat hackers in the spyware business.
Badoo is in big war with Tinder (Match Group)

Perhaps it is only a revenge against Match Group! No more than that.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/11/bumble-backed-by-badoo-perhaps-it-is.html



about article: In Tinder vs. Bumble, a Texas Showdown Takes Shape
https://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2018/07/about-article-in-tinder-vs-bumble-texas.html 

Saturday, September 15, 2018

(It seems) Facebook Dating will suggest matches from Dating Groups



https://twitter.com/wongmjane/status/1040686331070898176
https://twitter.com/wongmjane/status/1040685041292963840
http://socialbarrel.com/facebook-dating-will-suggest-matches-from-dating-groups/117307/
https://www.adslzone.net/2018/09/15/facebook-dating-recopilacion-datos/


It seems NO INNOVATION AT ALL, the same as any online dating site!
The Online Dating Industry needs INNOVATIONS, not more bells and whistles.
What is important in attracting people to one another may not be important in making couples happy.
Compatibility is all about a high level on personality similarity between prospective mates for long term mating with commitment, and not meet other people with similar interests or political views.

Facebook is refining Facebook Dating feature (via Ms. Jane Manchun Wong)
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2018/08/facebook-is-refining-facebook-dating.html


Match Group prepares for battle with Facebook
https://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2018/07/match-group-prepares-for-battle-with.html

Match Group is continually claiming "Facebook Is No Threat to Match Group"
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2018/07/continually-claiming-facebook-is-no.html
Perhaps Facebook is copycatting Tinder and Bumble, with some minor improvement with the help of former eHarmony's team,
and perhaps Facebook dating app will be free in order to erode Match Group dating sites.

https://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2018/05/tc-article-facebook-hired-eharmonys.html

PAPER "A Social Recommender System based on Bhattacharyya Coefficient"


https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1809/1809.03047.pdf

PAPER "A new similarity measure using Bhattacharyya coefficient
https://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2015/03/paper-new-similarity-measure-using.html


Please see: "How to calculate personality similarity between users"
Short answer: the key is the ENSEMBLE! (the whole set of different valid possibilities)
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2013/03/how-to-calculate-personality-similarity.html

Worldwide there are over 5,000 online dating sites, no one uses the 16PF5, no one is scientifically proven yet, and no one can show you compatibility distribution curves, i.e. if you are a man seeking women, to show how compatible you are with a 20,000,000 women database, and to select a bunch of 100 women from 20,000,000 women database.

 

What comes after the Social Networking wave?

The Next Big Investment Opportunity on the Internet will be .... Personalization!
Personality Based Recommender Systems and Strict Personality Based Compatibility Matching Engines for serious Online Dating with the normative 16PF5 personality test. 
 


The 8 tips to innovate in the Online Dating Industry!
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2013/12/the-8-tips-to-innovate-in-online-dating.html


And please remember: Personality Based Recommender Systems are the next generation of recommender systems because they perform far better than Behavioural ones (past actions and pattern of personal preferences)

That is the only way to improve recommender systems, to include the personality traits of their users.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/01/paper-comparative-study-of-people-to_14.html  

They need to calculate personality similarity between users but there are different formulas to calculate similarity.

In case you did not see, recommender systems are morphing to compatibility matching engines, as the same used in the Online Dating Industry for years, with low success rates until now because they mostly use the Big Five model to assess personality and the Pearson correlation coefficient to calculate similarity.
Please remember: Personality traits are highly stable in persons over 25 years old to 45 years old. 

The key to long-lasting romance: COMPATIBILITY is exactly STRICT PERSONALITY SIMILARITY and not "meet other people with similar interests or political views".  

Which is the RIGHT approach to innovate in the Personality Based Recommender Systems Arena? 
The same approach to innovate in the Online Dating Industry == 16PF5 test or similar to assess personality traits and a new method to calculate similarity between quantized patterns.
Online Dating sites have very big databases, in the range of 20,000,000 (twenty million) profiles, so the Big Five model or the HEXACO model are not enough for predictive purposes. That is why I suggest the 16PF5 test instead and another method to calculate similarity.
 

Mirror article: "Scientists develop an AI bot that can write TINDER bios"


The results are, as you might expect, absolute nonsense.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/tech/scientists-develop-ai-bot-can-13242479


Watson IBM and Amazon AI solutions, pitfalls.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2018/07/watson-ibm-and-amazon-ai-solutions.html


Viola.AI .. but Match failed with Amazon Alexa
https://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2018/01/violaai-but-match-failed-with-amazon.html
http://www.onlinepersonalswatch.com/news/2018/01/match-pulls-its-alexa-skill-giving-controversial-dating-tips.html

and Chief Scientist At eHarmony Cavorts With The ... Facebook
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2018/01/about-chief-scientist-at-eharmony.html 

 My bet: He is copycatting WATSON IBM, in same manner as Dr. Galen Buckwalter did (Soulmates.ai), but Buckwalter used the HEXACO model of personality (BIG FIVE, or OCEAN is obsolete now)

Personality Based Recommender Systems are the next generation of recommender systems because they perform far better than Behavioural ones (past actions and pattern of personal preferences)

That is the only way to improve recommender systems, to include the personality traits of their users.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/01/paper-comparative-study-of-people-to_14.html  

They need to calculate personality similarity between users but there are different formulas to calculate similarity.

In case you did not see, recommender systems are morphing to compatibility matching engines, as the same used in the Online Dating Industry for years, with low success rates until now because they mostly use the Big Five model to assess personality and the Pearson correlation coefficient to calculate similarity.
Please remember: Personality traits are highly stable in persons over 25 years old to 45 years old. 

The key to long-lasting romance: COMPATIBILITY is exactly STRICT PERSONALITY SIMILARITY and not "meet other people with similar interests or political views".  

Which is the RIGHT approach to innovate in the Personality Based Recommender Systems Arena? 
The same approach to innovate in the Online Dating Industry == 16PF5 test or similar to assess personality traits and a new method to calculate similarity between quantized patterns.
Online Dating sites have very big databases, in the range of 20,000,000 (twenty million) profiles, so the Big Five model or the HEXACO model are not enough for predictive purposes. That is why I suggest the 16PF5 test instead and another method to calculate similarity.

High precision in matching algorithms is precisely the key to open the door and leave the infancy of compatibility testing.
Without offering the NORMATIVE 16PF5 (or similar test measuring exactly the 16 personality factors) for serious dating, it will be impossible to innovate and revolutionize the Online Dating Industry.

 
WorldWide, there are over 5,000 (five thousand) online dating sites:

- but no one is using the 16PF5 (or similar) to assess personality of its members!

- but no one calculates similarity with a quantized pattern comparison method!

- but no one can show Compatibility Distribution Curves to each and every of its members!!! i.e. if you are a man seeking women, to show how compatible you are with a 20,000,000 women database, and to select a bunch of 100 women from 20,000,000 women database.

- but no one is scientifically proven!  No actual online dating site  is "scientifically proven" because no one can prove its matching algorithm can match prospective partners who will have more stable and satisfying relationships (and very low divorce rates) than couples matched by chance, astrological destiny, personal preferences, searching on one's own, or other technique as the control group in a peer reviewed Scientific Paper for the majority (over 90%) of its members.

The 8 tips to innovate in the Online Dating Industry!
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2013/12/the-8-tips-to-innovate-in-online-dating.html

Wednesday, September 12, 2018

TechCrunch article about "Swiped: Hooking Up in the Digital Age"



https://techcrunch.com/2018/09/11/i-watched-hbos-tinder-shaming-doc-swiped-so-you-dont-have-to/


The journalist who provoked the wrath of Tinder is back
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2018/09/the-journalist-who-provoked-wrath-of.html

Please see Forbes article: 'Black Mirror' Recap: 'Hang The DJ' Satirizes Dating In The Digital Age
https://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2018/01/forbes-article-black-mirror-recap-hang.html

about article: How to Build the Netflix of Love
https://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2018/01/about-article-how-to-build-netflix-of.html


"Mr Right or Ms Right" or "the one" or "your soulmate" or a "perfect match" does not exist! It will only exist a pool of compatible persons, not more than that.
No online dating site can promise you to find "the one" or "your soulmate" or a "perfect match".
Moreover the person you are looking for does not exist or if it exist, he/she does not want to meet you because your are not compatible.


The key to long-lasting romance: COMPATIBILITY is exactly STRICT PERSONALITY SIMILARITY and not "meet other people with similar interests or political views". 
 

 WorldWide, there are over 5,000 (five thousand) online dating sites:
 

- but no one is using the 16PF5 (or similar) to assess personality of its members!
 

- but no one calculates similarity with a quantized pattern comparison method!
 

- but no one can show Compatibility Distribution Curves to each and every of its members!!! i.e. if you are a man seeking women, to show how compatible you are with a 20,000,000 women database, and to select a bunch of 100 women from 20,000,000 women database.

- but no one is scientifically proven!  No actual online dating site  is "scientifically proven" because no one can prove its matching algorithm can match prospective partners who will have more stable and satisfying relationships (and very low divorce rates) than couples matched by chance, astrological destiny, personal preferences, searching on one's own, or other technique as the control group in a peer reviewed Scientific Paper for the majority (over 90%) of its members.


The 8 tips to innovate in the Online Dating Industry!
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2013/12/the-8-tips-to-innovate-in-online-dating.html
 

about article: Dallas-based Match Group's bumpy road to the top of online dating


https://www.dallasnews.com/business/technology/2018/09/12/even-companies-face-relationship-drama-match-groups-bumpy-road-top-online-dating

Aegis ups Match target to 19% upside
https://seekingalpha.com/news/3389734-aegis-ups-match-target-19-percent-upside

Tinder’s CEO Has Disappointing Victim-Blamey Dating Tips for Women
https://www.vice.com/en_ca/article/kz5aev/tinders-ceo-has-disappointing-victim-blamey-dating-tips-for-women


Please notice MTCH is mostly owned by IAC and of course IAC is controlled by one man, Mr. Barry Diller (76).
Investors should be cognizant if he is severely ill (lung cancer?) because he manages IAC like a Godfather. Perhaps IAC / MTCH can collapse if he passes away.

MTCH has also big debt in the range of USD 1.3 Billion.

The journalist who provoked the wrath of Tinder is back
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2018/09/the-journalist-who-provoked-wrath-of.html

Monday, September 10, 2018

The journalist who provoked the wrath of Tinder is back

with an HBO documentary "Swiped: Hooking Up in the Digital Age", that shows the bleak reality of dating apps.

https://www.businessinsider.com/hbo-documentary-swiped-shows-dark-side-of-tinder-and-dating-apps-2018-9

Bumble is waiting for Facebook dating feature
https://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2018/09/bumble-is-waiting-for-facebook-dating.html


Why Tinder DOESN'T work for Long Term Mating:
Study says evaluating someone based on their physical attractiveness alone is 'pointless'
https://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2017/06/why-tinder-doesnt-work-for-long-term.html



about article "Soros: Beware IT Monopolies Facebook, Google"
https://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2018/01/about-article-soros-beware-it.html

Screenshots from Hinge rebooting / part 1
https://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2016/09/screenshots-from-hinge-rebooting-part-1.html

article Tinder and the Dawn of the “Dating Apocalypse”
https://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2015/08/article-tinder-and-dawn-of-dating.html


Please see also:
article: Why Tinder won't find you love!
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/03/article-why-tinder-wont-find-you-love.html

Tinder users: Cognitive scientist Tom Griffiths knows who you should marry ???
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/06/tinder-users-cognitive-scientist-tom.html

PAPER and article about "Tinder is for instant gratification only"
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/01/paper-and-article-about-tinder-is-for.html

Please remember: Tinder was created as copycat of Badoo!
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/01/tinder-boost-to-boost-match-group.html

article: The Rise of Dating-App Fatigue
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/10/article-rise-of-dating-app-fatigue.html

Thesis / Paper: A STUDY OF MOMO AND THE STIGMA OF “FLIRTING APPLICATION”
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/12/thesis-paper-study-of-momo-and-stigma.html

PAPER Tinder: True Love or a Nightmare?
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/09/paper-tinder-true-love-or-nightmare.html

Why Tinder is making women MISERABLE: Men swipe right for an ego boost with no intention of speaking to matches
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/07/why-tinder-is-making-women-miserable.html

PAPER A First Look at User Activity on Tinder
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/07/paper-first-look-at-user-activity-on.html

 
Social dating is vaporware.

Tuesday, September 4, 2018

SA article: Match Group's 'Boom Times' Look Like They Are Over




https://seekingalpha.com/article/4203823-match-groups-boom-times-look-like

I agree with that article, also MTCH is mostly owned by IAC.
IAC is controlled by one man, Mr. Barry Diller.
Please see September 2018 issue of Fast Company magazine.
https://www.fastcompany.com/90205552/why-barry-diller-believes-in-cultivating-creative-conflict


about SA article: "Match Still A Buy Going Into Facebook Dating Launch"
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2018/08/about-sa-article-match-still-buy-going.html

about Barrons article: "Is it time for stock investors to break up with Match Group?
https://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2018/08/about-barrons-article-is-it-time-for_13.html
For me it is clear they do not want to innovate.
They want to squeeze their big databases to get all the juice (money) from the wallets of the daters.
Tinder reached operating ceiling, that is the main reason MTCH launched Tinder U, they need ambassadors.
Do not forget MTCH has big debt, in the range of USD 1.3 Billion.
Chispa, Pairs and Crown dating app, seems to be more bells and whistles and not really innovations.

 
Four Tinder plaintiffs drop out of lawsuit because Match might have quietly changed their contracts ?
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2018/08/four-tinder-plaintiffs-drop-out-of.html