Aug 11 (Reuters) - Bumble on Tuesday said it would now allow either person in a match to send the first message, dropping the women-first messaging rule that has been a defining feature of the dating app since its launch in 2014.

Kyle Cooke, the Loverboy founder, may be planning to find love again and is ready to take his single life to the next level. The Summer House star, who split from Amanda Batula earlier this year, is

Swiping took dating apps mainstream. Now a new crop of startups is betting that the next big dating platform will feel less like a feed and more like a wingman.

Matchmaker Bumble has been slammed after ditching its signature 'women-first' chat rule. The popular dating app, famous for empowering females to have more control by ensuring they are the ones to make the first move, has dropped the long-standing criteria.

The pitfalls of gamified dating apps are more reviled than ever: the ghosting, the overly curated profiles, being left feeling disposable and the endless added costs for features that fail to deliver.