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Facebook Dating launches in Europe after lengthy delay

The Verge

The dating service offers the same features in Europe as it does in the US , using the existing profile you’ve created on Facebook to find potential matches. Facebook Dating, the social network’s competitor to Tinder and other dating apps, launches today in Europe after a long delay from its planned Valentine’s Day debut.

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Extra Crunch roundup: 2 VC surveys, Tesla’s melt up, The Roblox Gambit, more

TechCrunch

Plus, don’t miss our first investor surveys of 2021: one by Lucas Matney on social gaming , and another by Mike Butcher that gathered responses from Portugal-based investors on a wide variety of topics. Lisbon’s startup scene rises as Portugal gears up to be a European tech tiger. Tocha, partner, Olisipo Way.

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Dating’s hard when you live the #vanlife

The Verge

Mentions of “nomad,” “RV,” and “van” in Tinder profiles are growing. Tinder tells us between February 1st and July 1st this year, mentions of “nomad” increased by 23 percent in profiles, while mentions of “RV” and “van” both increased by 8 percent. Ramasami says he recently matched with someone in Portugal. says Hawkins.

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YC-backed Tablevibe’s customer surveys help restaurants reduce their reliance on delivery apps

TechCrunch

They also have the option to follow its Facebook or Instagram profile. Aside from Singapore, it’s already used by customers in the Philippines, the Netherlands, Belgium, the United Kingdom and Portugal. For its delivery survey, most users are smaller restaurants that have one location.

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Timnit Gebru was fired from Google — then the harassers arrived

The Verge

Gebru suspected they were sock puppets, fake profiles created for the sole purpose of harassment, since many had popped up around her firing. He’d grown up in Portugal, a country that transitioned from a dictatorship to democracy in the 1970s. They wrote off her supporters as sycophants and “deranged activists.”.

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Rows, formerly dashdash, raises $16M to build and populate web apps using only spreadsheet skills

TechCrunch

A little detail about this Series B: CEO Humberto Ayres Pereira, who is based out of Porto, Portugal, where some of the staff is also based, tells us that this round actually was quietly closed over a year ago, in January 2020 — just ahead of the world shutting down amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

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[VIDEO] Keeping Your Donor Database Healthy, Wealth, and Wise

Bloomerang

Steven knows we live in a very highly descendants of Portugal here. you’ll see the data template, profile management, transaction management, interaction management, and report management. And profile management is all about how we enter data consistently, how we avoid duplication, and how we regulate that donor entry.