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Match Group Appoints Laura Jones and Spencer Rascoff to Board of Directors

by | Mar 29, 2024

Veteran executives Laura Jones and Spencer Rascoff have been appointed to the Match Group’s board of directors, effective immediately.

Match Group Chairman Tom McInerney expressed enthusiasm about the new board members, highlighting the unique contributions they’re poised to bring. Welcoming Jones and Rascoof is a step towards enhancing the board’s collective expertise, which is crucial for its strategic goals, McInerney said in a statement. ...

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‘Walk this Way’ Exhibit Tells Stories Through Nearly 200 Years of Women’s Shoes
by | Feb 8, 2024
Opening this Friday, the exhibition at the Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum offers a pathway to stories centered around "women's labor activism, the fight for suffrage and equal rights, the sexual revolution, and more."
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Match Group Launches ‘Are You Sure?’ Feature To Help Users Think Twice About Problematic Messages
by | Nov 14, 2023
Known in shorthand as AYS?, the anti-harassment feature provides a warning in real-time to users about their opening line. The feature uses automated tools to detect potentially harmful language, then asks the user to review and consider editing it before hitting "send."
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The Last Word: How Dating Apps Are Being Used for Business Networking, Not Romance
by | Aug 21, 2023
Dating apps can be a great way to find romance. But increasingly, according to the Wall Street Journal, users are finding something else instead: business come-ons from tech recruiters, networkers, children's book authors, and more.
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Match Group Launches Global Romance Scam Awareness Campaign

by | Jan 10, 2023
The course of true love never did run smooth. But lately it's been running downright dangerous—with dating scams emptying victims' bank accounts and leaving would-be sweethearts broken both emotionally and financially. Today Dallas-based Match Group tried to do something about it by launching a global public awareness campaign to help daters and consumers "date safer" and "stay protected against the different forms of online fraud."
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DI People: Optic Gaming, Ziosk, Dr Pepper Keurig, and More Announce Leadership Moves
by | Oct 21, 2022
In this week’s roundup of hires, promotions, and accolades in North Texas, you’ll also find news from Advent International, Stellar, Stream Realty Partners, The Citizenry, Sabre Corp., SB Architects, and others.
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2 Former Match Group CEOs Join Advent International as Operating Partners
by | Oct 20, 2022
Shar Dubey and Mandy Ginsberg will play key roles in further building out Advent’s consumer technology practice and work collaboratively with the firm’s consumer and technology investment teams and the management teams of its portfolio companies.
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DI People: EarthX, Match Group, Bonton Farms, and More Make Leadership Moves
by | Sep 9, 2022
In this week’s roundup of hires, promotions, and accolades in North Texas, you’ll also find news from Ribbon Communications, Texas Brand Bank, Evolve Biologics, and COMSoverign Holding Corp., Warrior Connection, T.D. Jakes Foundation, Mindzie, the City of Fort Worth, UT Arlington, Allied Electronics and Automation, KTA Media Group, My Possibilities, and more.
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Mobile Game Company President Is Named New CEO of Match Group

by | May 3, 2022
Match Group CEO Shar Dubey is leaving her post May 31, but will stay on with the company as a board director and advisor. The move will allow more time for what she calls "the give back" chapter of her life.

Incoming CEO Bernard Kim currently serves as the president of mobile game maker Zynga, where he is credited with boosting Zynga’s market cap since 2016, leading to Zynga’s pending $12.7 billion acquisition by Take-Two Interactive.
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The Perfect Match: Shar Dubey Opens Up About Her Journey to the Top of Dallas-Based Match Group
by | Aug 9, 2021
Dubey was one of the only females in her classes at the Indian Institute of Technology. In her first job at an aerospace company, she became its first woman engineer. Now she reflects on her path to becoming a chief executive.
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Here’s Why Dallas’ Match Group Is Pioneering the Family-Friendly Workplace
by | Jul 6, 2021
The locally based online dating innovator has a commitment to a family friendly culture that starts at the top. Its benefits includes full healthcare coverage, paid parental leave following a birth or adoption, on-site nursing rooms, accommodations for those considering parenthood, childcare assistance, a partnership with Care.com, and more.
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Match Group is Using Tinder to Make Background Check Technology More Accessible to Users
by | Mar 15, 2021
Match Group has invested in Garbo, a first-of-its-kind background check platform, to empower people to make more informed decisions and choices about their safety. Garbo's platform will be integrated with Tinder later this year in an effort to aid adversely impacted women and marginalized communities.
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Match Group, Corgan, BGSF, and Omnitracs Name 16 Tech Tools That Help Build a Sense of Community

by | Oct 26, 2020
Microsoft Teams, Workhuman, TheSquare, and Workday were among the tech platforms for cohesion and productivity mentioned by leaders at the region's top companies.
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Tech-Centric Timmy Awards Announces Winners of First Annual Dallas Event
by | Oct 15, 2020
On Oct. 29, the Dallas winners will compete on the national stage for the chance to win a National Timmy Award.
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Meet the Finalists for Tech Titans’ 20th Annual Awards Gala
by | Oct 6, 2020
The Roaring Twenties-themed virtual event will be a live, cinematic experience complete with a "Speakeasy Party To Go" feature for at-home watch parties. See who could take home an award.
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Match Group Names Former Uber Exec to Its New Role: Head of Safety And Social Advocacy
by | Oct 1, 2020
Tracey Breeden joins Match Group after serving as the head of women's safety and gender-based violence operations at Uber. She brings a breadth of knowledge to the new role—Breeden has worked with more than 200 women's safety groups and advocacy organizations.
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