Wherever you rejoining me from around the world, once again a big hello and a warm welcome to the show. Now, during the global lockdown, the flame of love burnt brightly online. With billions of us stuck at home, the only way singles could mingle was to fire up those dating apps. Dating sites like hinge, bumble and tinder became billion dollar businesses as sofa surfing for mr or ms right took off. But, lately, it seems that we might be falling out of love with the apps. Match group is the largest dating company in the world. It owns the big digital brands like hinge, tinder, 0kcupid, and match. Com, but it recently said it was cutting 6% of its workforce after the amount of people paying for services on its biggest site, tinder, dropped for the seventh quarter in a row. So that s almost two years of fewer people paying for the service. But it s not all bad news there was some encouraging growth at stablemate hinge, and whilst fewer people are paying for tinder, the ones which are le
Talking business. Hello and welcome to talking business with me, lukwesa burak. Let s have a look at what s coming up on the show. This is the first time i m here, and it s great to meet people in real life. Are we breaking up with digital dating? looking for love online during lockdown was a multibillion dollar business, so why are so many of us swiping out of the apps? is it that the price of love is just becoming too steep? i ll be asking one woman who s been in touch with 6,000 americans and noticed a big change in the way we use the sites. And i ll be heading out to an in person dating event to talk to the brave souls searching for a partner in real life. Plus, later in the programme, it s a country of 1. 5 billion people, and he has millions on his site looking for love. I ll be chatting to the boss of matrimony. Com, india s biggest digital dating group. So how is love blossoming across what is becoming one of the most important dating markets in the world? wherever you rejoinin
The Democrat Nominee covered a wide range of issues from the conflict in gaza and the war in ukraine to abortion rights. She also spoke in depth about what she called her Middle Class roots and about creating a future of opportunity for americans with an Opportunity Economy. Lets have a listen. My mother kept a strict budget, we lived within our means, yet we wanted for little. And she expected us to make the most of the opportunities that were available to us, and to be grateful for them. Because, as she taught us, opportunity is not available to everyone. Thats why we will create what i call an Opportunity Economy an Opportunity Economy where everyone has the chance to compete and a chance to succeed. So from one high Stakes Speech to another. Today all eyes from Wall Street to the Campaign Trail will be on the us Central Bank chair, Jerome Powell, when he speaks at the Mountain Resort of jackson hole. His words move markets across the world as investors seek a steer on the Direction
Was how to tame inflation which at its peak at 9 which cause pain. The benchmark Rate Hit a 20 year high. Thats were to today and with the americas annual Inflation Rate tipping below 3 and signs the Jobs Market is signed starting to begin, Jerome Powell is starting to lay out a Road Map for the future of american Interest Rates he will Antenna Point cut Interest Rates september with more to follow but he blocked that choose his words carefully after a Roller Coaster Ride on Wall Street calls for an Emergency Rate could have subsided. However, financial markets remain on edge. Rivals for the White House Kamala Harris and Donald Trump will be keen to hear what he has to say given the mood for americans headed for the polls in november are likely to be shaped in part by what the fed does next. At the Democratic National Convention, the excitement is building ahead of an address by the Partys President ial nominee Kamala Harris. Carl tannenbaum from Northern Trust took a closer look at th
Were currently seeing the middle East Unravel faster than Ilhans Marriage to her brother. Were seeing an surd an absurd Gas Shortage and high gas prices. We have a bumbling leaders who scares No One such someone who uses herbal essence shampoo. Unemployment is rising as benefits keep flowing. Crime is back and bloodier than ever. Were witnessing shootings and murders like never before. Not exactly like never before. We have seen it before. In fact, weve seen it all before. Its called well be making another run the 17 the 70s dont leave home without a gun there is no Gas Inflation will leave you broke on your ass the 70s were all going to Hell The 70s the 70s [siren] [applause] greg you dont have to clap. That was no jack jones. But its true. Weve gone back to the 70s, a 10year span so awful we had to create the 1980s and 1990s to erase it. On the plus side, we might get another one of these. Maybe we have. Seriously. She is this generations farrah Fawcett Or Jacqueline smith. I cant ma