4.6 • 716 Ratings
🗓️ 8 October 2019
⏱️ 7 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Today is Tuesday, October 8, and we’re looking at Match vs. Facebook Dating.
See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
0:00.0 | Wonderly Plus subscribers can listen to Business Wars daily ad-free right now. |
0:04.8 | Join Wonderly Plus in the Wondery app or on Apple Podcasts. |
0:08.5 | If you or someone you care about has cancer, |
0:11.5 | Macmillan Cancer Support's online community is here to help from day one. |
0:16.1 | Macmillan's free online forum provides a safe space to get support from both experts and others who've been |
0:22.0 | there. Members support each other anonymously, sharing what's helped them on a range of subjects, |
0:27.5 | from dealing with side effects such as hair loss and fatigue, to money worries and managing work, |
0:32.9 | or talking with children about a diagnosis. There are different forums on cancer types or experiences, |
0:39.0 | opportunities to ask an expert, and blog posts. |
0:42.0 | Find support 24-7 from people who get what it's like to have cancer. |
0:46.7 | To join, search McMillan online community. |
0:49.3 | Thank you. From Wondry, I'm David Brown, and this is Business Wars Daily on this Tuesday, October 8th. |
1:09.2 | Dear Susie, he likes you, but you can't see him or respond to his email unless you pay for a subscription. |
1:15.6 | We bet you want to, right? |
1:17.6 | This is the type of message that Match.com sent to lots of its users to tempt them to sign up for paid subscriptions. |
1:25.6 | One problem, though, at least one federal agency |
1:28.8 | alleges that in hundreds of thousands of cases, that perfect guy or girl was likely to be a bot, |
1:34.6 | con artist, or scammer. The Federal Trade Commission claims that dating sitematch.com used this |
1:40.6 | strategy for years to plump up its user base and its profits. |
1:45.2 | And so the agency sued the Match Group in late September. |
1:48.5 | The Goliath of the online dating industry. |
1:51.0 | The Match Group owns Match.com. |
... |
Transcript will be available on the free plan in -2002 days. Upgrade to see the full transcript now.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Wondery, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Wondery and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.