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
a new dual covid vaccine will form part of the uk s autumn booster campaign the jab targets both the original covid and omicron variants. and, at last, an apology for the native american actress, booed off stage at the oscars, almost 50 years ago. good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. new figures suggest the real value of wages, has fallen at its fastest rate since records began, leading to further concerns about the cost of living. the office for national statistics says regular pay, excluding bonuses, was up 4.7% between april and june this year, compared to last year. but taking inflation into account, it s actually down 3%, hit by the rising cost of goods and services. the government says it recognises people are struggling with high prices, but is providing direct financial help for millions on low incomes. here s our economics correspondent, andy verity. from the outside, 4.7% is the best average pay rise for years. but the inside story is the average worker is deal
court in our land in the first place. the decision is set to have major legal political, social and cultural fallout. shannon bream, chief legal correspondent, is with us now. as we get going here and i was just reading about this. there are states now that are already starting to trigger their bans against abortion. we saw this coming. i would like to start there and explain how that happens expeditiously. a number of these states planned ahead and that s on both ends of the spectrum on the issue of abortion rights. sometimes they will restrict everything before a heartbeat and exceptions or not. those state laws are ready to kick in. some passed in anticipation of what would happen potentially today. there are other states on the other end of the spectrum. i cited colorado as one of these states where they passed laws wanting to extend abortion rights to women. basicically there you can get an abortion up to the end of your pregnancy. the laws have already been passed and