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The gay dating and hook-up app Grindr is going to remove its controversial “ethnicity filter” due to complaints that it enables racial discrimination. Following protests in the US after the police killing of unarmed black man George Floyd, the company has decided to remove the feature – claiming it had a “zero-tolerance policy for racism …
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The investor group that’s buying Grindr has connections to the Chinese tech firm that was forced to sell the gay dating app in the first place, a new report says. Federal regulators last week approved Beijing Kunlun Tech Co.’s sale of Grindr to a company called San Vicente Acquisition LLC. The Committee on Foreign Investment …
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Chinese gaming company Beijing Kunlun Tech said on Friday that a US national security panel approved the $620 million sale of popular gay dating app Grindr to an investor group called San Vicente Acquisition. The panel, the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), ordered Kunlun last year to divest Grindr amid concerns …