Aug. 13--Tinder, incensed by a Vanity Fair story, vented in a series of more than 30 tweets. Not everyone uses its dating app only to hook up for sex, Tinder said, citing "many users in ... North Korea" who just want to be friends. Or so they tell Kim Jong Un.
Columbia House, the mail-order marketer whose business eroded over the last 19 years, has filed for bankruptcy and plans to sell its assets. Since 1955, its famous introductory offers, like eight CDs for a penny, brought it customers for its real business. That would be sending out bills.
China's knockoff of Millennium Park's Cloud Gate sculpture is almost complete. It's not an exact copy. That would require the oil-rich city of Karamay to plunge itself into a huge budget mess so its mirrored Bean also reflects the weary faces of put-upon residents.
Michael Jordan is suing because now-defunct Dominick's used an image in a 2009 ad without permission. His lawyers argue that undercut Jordan's paid endorsements, effectively plucking money from his pocket. And you can't take advantage of him like that unless you're on a golf course.
The NFL is supposed to be considering turning the absurd theater of Super Bowl Media Day into a live, prime-time TV show. As in training camp, look for the Bears to ban credentialed press from reporting anything during the event about its players ... watching at home.
The soundtrack for Disney Channel's new "Descendants" musical has the distinction of being the worst-selling No. 1 album in the history of the Billboard charts, according to Rolling Stone. Purchasers will be thanked individually.
Inventor-designer Jack Ryan, who died 24 years ago Thursday at 64, designed real-life missiles and was briefly wed to Zsa Zsa Gabor, but it's his toys we remember. They include Chatty Cathy, Hot Wheels and -- by adapting an obscure German adult novelty doll -- Barbie.
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