Monthly Archives: August 2022

Tinder steps back from metaverse dating plans as business falters

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Amidst a disappointing set of earnings for the last quarter, Match Group has announced it’s scaling back Tinder’s metaverse dating ambitions and scrapping plans to offer an in-app Tinder Coins currency. Tinder CEO Renate Nyborg, who became the dating app’s first female CEO just last September, is also…

Big Wednesday #5

Even if you live under a rock, you’ve probably heard that interest rates are rising, and therefore the cost of financing the rock under which you live is increasing. Maybe that explains why I’ve been getting so many calls about refinancing our mortgage “before rates rise again!” Here’s one from a caller named Ray. “Michael,…

ZayZoon charges employees $5 to get paid sooner

In spite of the so-called Great Resignation, wages haven’t risen as dramatically as some economists anticipated. About 41% of workers recently surveyed by Willis Towers Watson say that they’re living paycheck to paycheck, while the Bureau of Economic Advisers reports that personal savings rates reached a seven-year low in April — reflecting the dire financial…

Braxia buys KetaMD to get into remote-delivered ketamine treatments

Braxia Scientific is a Toronto-based company that focuses on depression, suicidality and related mental health conditions. Today, the company announced it is buying KetaMD to extend its telehealth prowess and in particular to expand its tech-facilitated ketamine-based treatments from its current local market of Florida into the wider U.S. The deal is worth around $6…

Is Prey a Predator prequel? It’s complicated, director says

Prey director Dan Trachtenberg has attempted to clarify whether the upcoming Predator movie is actually a prequel. Speaking exclusively to TechRadar at the film’s UK junket, Trachtenberg surprisingly revealed that he doesn’t refer to Prey as a Predator prequel. As Trachtenberg goes on to explain, though, there’s a significant reason why he doesn’t believe the…