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
Planet early next year. Let us take you back to the Funeral Service forjohn lewis which is taking place in atlanta, georgia, the same place where Martin Luther king junior was married. The same place where Martin Luther king junior was married. The testing of his faith produces perseverance. He knew that the march is not over and the race is not yet won and we have not yet reached that blessed destination. Where we are judged by the content of our character. He knew from his own life that progress is fragile, that we have to be vigilant against the darker currents of this countrys history. Of our own history. That there are whirlpools of violence and hatred and despair that can always rise again. Today, we witness with our own eyes Police Officers meeting on the next meaning on the mix of black americans. George wallace maybe gone but we can witness our federal government sending agents to use tear gas and at times against peaceful demonstrators. We may no longer have to guess the numb
This is bbc news with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. England recorded the highest levels of excess deaths in europe across the first half of the year, according to new figures showing the impact of the coronavirus. New guidance for people showing symptoms of covid. Officials are expected to extend the isolation period from seven to ten days in england, over fears of rising cases numbers in parts of europe. Australia suffers its worst day since the pandemic began, with rising numbers of both cases and fatalities. You can contact me about any of our
stories today. Also this hour. New guidance for people showing symptoms of covid. Officials are expected to extend the isolation period from seven to ten days in england, in hong kong, chinas clamp down continues as 12 opposition candidates are disqualified from standing in the in hong kong, chinas clamp down continues as 12 opposition candidates are disqualified from standing in the prosecutors respond to a