So it ticked all the boxes for the kind of story I’d post on Facebook. A British woman, Michelle Thomas – gorgeous, though that probably shouldn’t matter - goes on a Tinder date. The evening goes swimmingly…

A new start-up lets users "build" significant others who will send them text messages. It relies on crowdsourced workers to write the texts. For a month, I was one of them.

Tinder: it’s how people meet. Each day, 26 million matches are made on Tinder, and we do our best to keep those matches real — that’s why we’re rolling out Verified Profiles. Starting today, you may...

Ever swiped through Tinder and been greeted by a celebrity’s photo?

Follow your heart…literally. This concept for a Tinder app will use the heart rate data from your Apple Watch or Android Wear device to decide for you.

Research suggests techniques for making the search for love more effective and less exhausting.

Cost of dating in some of the world's major cities

Tinder has announced it is adding much anticipated premium features to its dating app, including the ability to reconsider rejected profiles. In a surprise move, it announced the pay-to-use add-ons would cost more for older people to use. In the UK, people over the age of 28 years old face paying nearly four times the price of their younger counterparts. In the US, the over-30s have to pay double the basic rate.

The cold mathematics of sugar daddy dating.

If you're a weird looking dude like me it's usually very difficult picking up girls - thats why you need a good wingman. But lots of my wingmen don't know what to - hence the video...

An online dating company has agreed to pay more than $600,000 to settle allegations that it tricked consumers with fake dating profiles. The company operates dating websites such as cupidswand.com, flirtcrowd.com, and findmelove.com. The Federal Trade Commission argues that the deceptive practice violates federal law.

The dating site’s numbers guru reveals the painful truth about men, women and ageing – and why you should always ask a potential partner how they feel about scary movies.

Straight men of all ages tend to have their romantic sights set on women in their mid-twenties, while women prefer men who are about the same age as they are, according to a new study.

She's a meat-eater; he's vegan. She likes salads; he lives on hot dogs and Cheez Whiz. These are examples of real-life couples whose pairings make no sense to me. Because I could not love a person (romantically) who would never eat vegetables. Or if I did love them, I would consider it star-crossed. Uh, broccoli-crossed.

I moved back to New York from Cairo in January of 2014, and among the biggest culture shocks was American Tinder. In Cairo, there was the occasional woman, mostly Russian tourists on holiday, using the mobile dating app; in New York, I met a torrent of instant flirtation. Patterns emerged: apparently almost every woman under 30 in this city "Loves whiskey," is really into Hallmark-caliber affirmation quotes, and fake moustaches.

Tinder, the popular hookup and dating app, is being sued for sexual harassment and sex discrimination.

Match.com wants to give you sexual deja vu by matching you up with people who look like people you've already slept with.

You might say you're looking for a potential mate that looks like George Clooney or Scarlett Johansson, but chances are you do have a "type" and it looks a lot like your ex. Building on this concept, popular dating site Match.com has partnered with Los Angeles-based matchmaking service Three Day Rule that uses facial-recognition technology to find dates for users.

A brief guide to wingmen, and the science behind them.

The world has changed.  Did you know that in the past three years 1 in 5 relationships has started on an online website?  Not only that, but dating websites are responsible for 33% of second marriages!  It is unbelievable to think more people today meet online than at bars and parties combined.