Why Tinder And OkCupid Owner Is Now Suing Google
Match Group, the company that owns popular dating services Tinder and OkCupid, has sued Google for allegedly violating U.S. antitrust laws with its Play Store billing policies. Tinder and OkCupid are two of the biggest and most popular dating apps in the world alongside the likes of Bumble, Plenty of Fish, and eHarmony. Match Group also owns Match.com, a dating website that has been around since the mid-nineties – long before online dating became mainstream. The company also recently launched a new dating app called Stir, specifically for single parents.
Google has been sued on numerous occasions for alleged monopolistic trade practices, and some of those cases relate to the company's Play Store operations. Most notably, the company was sued in August 2020 by Epic Games for restricting developers from offering third-party in-app payment solutions. Epic also sued Apple on the same day for very similar reasons in a case that captured the imagination of the global media. While a judge has since ruled against Epic on nine out of 10 counts, the case against Google will go to trial next year.
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Match Group has sued Google for allegedly breaking antitrust laws by forcing third-party app developers to use its own Play Store payment system instead of allowing them to offer alternatives. The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court of Northern California, alleges that this restriction takes away user choice and helps Google maintain its monopoly over the Android ecosystem. In a press release announcing the filing of the lawsuit, Match Group accused Google of holding app developers «hostage» to its monopolistic practices and claimed that the search giant is acting against
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