Markets in the world? wherever you rejoining me from around the world, once again a big hello and a warm welcome to the show. 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
To Talking Business with me, lukwesa burak. Lets have a look at whats coming up on the show. This is the first time im here, and its 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 . Ill be asking one woman whos been in touch with 6,000 americans and noticed a big change in the way we use the sites. And ill 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, its a country of 1. 5 billion people, and he has millions on his site looking for love. Ill be chatting to the boss of matrimony. Com, indias biggest digital dating group. So how is love blossoming across what is becoming one of the most important Dating Markets in the world . Wherever yourejoining me from around the world, once again a bi
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because there s light at the end of the tunnel, and by that, i mean not in a negative way, it s sort of. ..getting control of my life again. and then very, very sad emotions because it s the end of an era and it s. i also feel sad and emotional for all my team here, some of which, in fact, most of which i deem as family. and some of them, we ve grown up together, basically. so very, very mixed emotions. and the last the last week, i know i am going to be a wreck. why? why are you shutting down? because you could fill every table here for the foreseeable future. everybody wants to come and eat here if they can afford it. so why shut it? yeah, i mean, the business is successful and it s. ..it is going well. reservations are very good especially since i announced that we re closing, it s gone crazy. but there are many reasons. i mean, first of all, i m getting on a bit. i m 63 and i m thinking, what next? do i want to sign up to another lease? the lease is coming to an en
because there s light at the end of the tunnel, and by that, i mean not in a negative way, it s sort of. ..getting control of my life again. and then very, very sad emotions because it s the end of an era and it s. i also feel sad and emotional for all my team here, some of which, in fact, most of which i deem as family. and some of them, we ve grown up together, basically. so very, very mixed emotions. and the last the last week, i know i am going to be a wreck. why? why are you shutting down? because you could fill every table here for the foreseeable future. everybody wants to come and eat here if they can afford it. so why shut it? yeah, i mean, the business is successful and it s. ..it is going well. reservations are very good especially since i announced that we re closing, it s gone crazy. but there are many reasons. i mean, first of all, i m getting on a bit. i m 63 and i m thinking, what next? do i want to sign up to another lease? the lease is coming to an en