In August, when Forbes reported it'd found nearly 20 profiles of charged or sentenced pedophiles on Kik Messenger, the hugely popular chat app's owners promised to do better and proactively remove ...

Kik, the popular chat app for iOS and Android devices, has added group video chat to its service. Kik Kik, the popular chat app for iOS and Android devices, has added group video chat to its service.

The messenger app Kik, a chat service catering to teens, debuted its Bot Shop on Monday. The shop lets Kik users download chatbots – automated apps meant to simulate real conversation. The shop ...

The messaging space is a hot one these days, and early player Kik is no exception. The Waterloo-based company announced today that its cross-platform messaging app now has over 50 million registered ...

Whereas WhatsApp has focused on replacing SMS, Livingston believes that offering privacy by way of a username will help his company win out in the long run. “This will cause short term pain,” he says, ...

Windows Phone 7 is back in the hunt. As I mentioned previously, both Evernote and Foodspotting recently added new versions of their app for Microsoft’s mobile platform. Kik Messenger is the next in ...

Kik, a new chat application for smartphones that is quicker and more social than SMS, is showing impressive viral uptake. The company says it has registered 450,000 downloads in the first 10 days ...

Kik Interactive may have chosen to focus on cryptocurrency, but its messaging app will apparently live on. In a new post on Kik's blog, MediaLab has revealed that it has acquired Kik Messenger from ...

Last month, it was announced that Kik Messenger would be shutting down as the company pivoted to focus on its Kin cryptocurrency. As it turns out, Kik Messenger will live on thanks to an acquisition ...