Wherever yourejoining 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 thats almost two years of fewer people paying for the service. But its not all bad news there was some encouraging growth at stablemate hinge, and whilst fewer people are paying for tinder, the ones which are left are
Talking business. Hello and welcome 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 fr
Dismissed. The former First Minister of scotland alex salmond will be questioned by members of the Scottish Parliament today over his claims of a conspiracy against him over Sexual Harassment claims. The us responds to this attack in iraq by launching its own air strikes in Eastern Syria. At least 17 members of an iranian backed militia are dead. And prince harry has spoken about his Mental Health, and has blamed the British Press for his move to the us. It was destroying my Mental Health. Really . I was like, this is toxic. Yeah. So, i did what any husband and what any father would do. I was like, i need to get my family out of here. Hello and welcome if youre watching in the uk or around the world. Health leaders have welcomed the queens comments about her vaccine experience, describing them as an incredibly important vote of confidence in the programme. The monarch has urged those hesitant about the vaccine to take up the offer, urging them to think of others as The Government prepa
March. To protest the indignity suffered by the black community in the jim crow era. He had violated bull connors ban on demonstration. Which targeted a growing resistance of African Americans to the injustices they were suffering. While in solitary confinement in birmingham cam, dr. King wrote what became known as the letter from the birmingham jail. A stunning response, to a group of white clergy in alabama, who had denounced his tactics and questioned the wisdom and timing of his arrival in birmingham. They insisted, that he was an outside agitator. Coming to alabama to instigate trouble. Dr. King responded famously, injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. In his letter, he rejected the idea that African Americans should be more patient for change. In the face of the daily indignities inflicted by segregation. In the face of violence and threats and intimidation. There comes a time he wrote, when the cup of endurance runs over. While i did not experience the struggle a