Tinder has lost a million users
Tinder’s decline is not recent. The Match Group, the company that owns Tinder, announced in 2022 losses of over 10 million US dollars. Tinder’s total number of paying users fell to 15.7 million, roughly 5% compared to numbers from 2022.To counter this, Tinder has organized massive matching events in college campuses across the United States.
Google Safari ad Revenues
The high-stakes trial pitting Google against the US Department of Justice started in September. Many of the proceedings have been shielded from public view, to protect trade secrets. Google has maintained that its dominance of online searches is due to having a superior product. Google paid more than $26bn to other companies, including Apple, Samsung
American supply chain
Supply chains is facing pressure to decouple, like those linking American customers to Chinese suppliers. In 2021 American and Chinese firms were closer together in the supply chain than the global average . They will end 2023 farther apart than they were. And, though chains have lengthened globally, the distance between American and Chinese firms
The Green Jobs
The more ambitions industrial policy becomes, the harder it will be for politicians to exercise the control advocates say is needed. Many governments, including America’s, also want industrial policy to bolster national security, for instance. Taken together, such aims risk an almighty mess. Politicians across the rich world agree that industrial policy wheezes which aim
Neftlix on Live sports
Lately the company has been active in a niche in what it calls sports shoulder-programming, commissioning factual series such as “Break Point” (following professional tennis players) and “Unchained” (tracking the Tour de France), as well as profiles of stars such as David Beckham. Showing sport itself has not tempted the streaming giant. Rights are wildly
legal complexities around Israeli attacks that hit hospitals
Outright attacks on medical facilities are morally reprehensible but, from the perspective of the law of armed conflict (loac), they are, sadly, not always unlawful. That depends on targeting. Of the attacks launched by Israeli forces in Gaza since October 7th, none have caused more international consternation than those that have hit hospitals and ambulances—even
Training of Ukraine Military
France is on course to have trained 7,000 Ukrainians this year some in Poland, others at French bases as part of a European Union military assistance mission for Ukraine that launched a year ago this week. The French army granted The Associated Press access to a training base in rural France last week to observe
The fight for Assab port
Abiy enjoyed some significant amount of backing among Ethiopians for the war in Tigray between 2020 and 2022, which displaced millions of people. Eritrea supported his government during that particular conflict, becoming an ally.Ethiopia and Eritrea made peace in 2018, formally ending their border conflict. But control of the Assab port which serves both countries
The Anti-LGBTQ+ Laws in Africa
Rights activists say abuses experienced by LGBTQ+ people today can often be traced back globally to a colonial legacy of discrimination, even though colonial powers like Britain, France and Portugal long ago decriminalised same-sex relations. While Britain’s colonial legacy weighs heavy on LGBTQ+ communities in some African countries, it is not the case in every
Nepal bans TikTok
TikTok has come under scrutiny from authorities around the world over concerns that data could be passed to the Chinese government. Its parent company, ByteDance, has previously rejected the allegation. Although TikTok lags behind the likes of Facebook and Instagram, its growth among young people far outstrips its competitors. More than 1,600 TikTok-related cyber crime