Catfish may just seem like a fun show on MTV about duping people online, but a recent study showed that 54% of online daters feel that they’ve been provided false information. To make matters worse, ...

Badoo, the majority owner of the dating app Bumble, is seeking a sale that could value the company at $1.5 billion, sources tell CNBC. Bumble is a dating app where only women can initiate ...

In 2013, as the market for fast-action dating apps like Tinder was heating up, a different kind of app started getting some attention: Lulu, which allowed women to rate men on everything from their ...

Pictures may be worth a thousand words, but that could also be contingent on the age of the picture. And when you’re in the online dating world, those pictures can be all too misleading. Luckily, ...

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Badoo is today launching photo-verification and verified profiles to make online dating safer. Most folks don’t know that Badoo is the silent giant in online dating. Globally, the 10-year-old company ...

There's a social network oozing into the U.S. that you probably haven't heard of yet: Badoo. I hadn't. But this network has, I'm told, 130 million users around the world, with about 6 million in the U ...

Online dating has ballooned to a $4 billion business. Now the industry faces new players (Spotify) and challenges (how do you keep happy couples engaged in a dating site once they’re, well, engaged?).

Badoo is an online "hook-up service", and is one of the fastest growing social networks in the world, but still comes with its fair share of spam and privacy concerns. The service is a cross between ...

If a couple photos and a few lines of text aren’t enough information to gauge someone’s potential as a romantic prospect, we have good news for you. Or rather, Badoo does. The world’s largest dating ...

The dating app just launched a new feature dubbed Lookalikes, which uses facial recognition to help you find potential matches that look just like your crush. I'm PCMag's managing editor for consumer ...