Wall Street feels swipe fatigue as Match Group shares tumble, signaling an opening for new dating startups
Singles aren’t the only ones feeling the ache from dating app fatigue — Wall Street is too. Match Group shares dropped more than 18% on Thursday after the company said paying users on its largest app, Tinder, fell 4% to 9.9 million in the third quarter, compared to the same period a year ago. The…
Giuliani says he can’t surrender a Joe DiMaggio jersey in his $148M defamation case because it’s locked up in Ronkonkoma, NY
Rudy Giuliani speaking with reporters after appearing in federal court in Manhattan on Thursday for his $148 million Georgia-election-worker defamation case. Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio jersey? Ronkonkoma, New York, apparently. A framed Yankees uniform, worn and signed by Joltin’ Joe himself, is no longer hanging on the living-room wall of Rudy Giuliani’s Manhattan…
I dated a man 15 years older, and everyone criticized me. Some said I was a gold digger and had daddy issues, but I loved him.
A couple enjoying an early-morning coffee together. Age is an odd topic of conversation. In high school, a year’s difference can feel like eons. In college, two or three years are of no consequence. Then, later in life, just as I thought I’ve escaped the constraints of social expectations, they reared their heads again and…
California took a surprisingly red turn on key issues, upending its ultraliberal reputation
Some Californians in Newport Beach celebrated Trump’s expected win on election night. Even the bluest states in the US were not immune from a significant move to the right on Election Day That was evident in California, the most populous US state, which has voted Democratic in every presidential election since 1988. Well-known for its…
Voters worldwide are angry about higher prices and keep punishing those in power
Kamala Harris, Rishi Sunak, Emmanuel Macron, and Narendra Modi. From London to Tokyo, Seoul to Cape Town, 2024 has been a year of sharp election swings. Now you can add Washington D.C. to the list. Donald Trump soundly beat Democrat VP Kamala Harris in the US election, faring better than in 2020 in virtually every…
Red, blue, and green: US voters elected minimum wage increases
Voters turned out for Trump and progressive policies like minimum wage hikes. In 2024, voters elected a Republican president while embracing policies touted by Democrats. Minimum wage hikes, in particular, were victorious in states that went soundly for President-elect Donald Trump. In Missouri, Trump raked in just over 58% of the vote. The same share…
Trump’s election win fuels hope of a peace deal between the PGA Tour and LIV Golf
Donald Trump. Donald Trump’s return to the White House is fueling hope of an end to the divide between the PGA Tour and the Saudi-backed LIV Golf League. Golf star Rory McIlroy suggested earlier this week that Trump and Elon Musk could help accelerate a deal between the two tours, which have been embroiled in…
Betting markets nailed Trump’s decisive win — and it’s a good reminder they can be more accurate than polls
President-elect Donald Trump In the weeks before Donald Trump’s victory, polling showed the former president locked in a dead heat with Vice President Kamala Harris. Prediction markets, though, told a different story. Trump started showing a solid lead on betting markets like Polymarket, PredictIt, and Kalshi in mid-October, and those odds mostly rose in the…
Let’s call it the YouTube election
Podcasts played a huge role in getting Donald Trump re-elected this week. Right? Or maybe it was Twitter. Or TikTok. Could be all of them. And it could also be that people interested in those mediums and platforms have reasons to want to believe they were important. But if you’re going to look at the…
