Kik is one of those messaging apps that is flying under the radar for old people, but gaining strong traction among teens and college kids. As a sign of its youthfulness, Kik actually zoomed into the ...

Popular messenger app Kik, which hosts a colossal 185 million users, revealed it had snapped up GIF messaging firm Relay on Wednesday for an undisclosed sum. Additionally, the company secured a $38.3 ...

Kik’s attempt to become “the WeChat of the West” has been bolstered by a $50 million infusion from WeChat’s Chinese developer, Tencent. Kik will use the funds to focus on the US teen market, a ...

On the same day Instagram announced it was getting into messaging with its Direct feature, Kik, a popular messaging app among the world’s mobile-hungry teens said it had reached the ...

Kik, a Canadian mobile messaging app that has made it clear that is seeks to emulate WeChat, is entering a new category: fashion, through the acquisition of fashion advice bot Blynk, it was announced ...

Facebook just acquired mobile-messaging service WhatsApp for $16 billion because it has millions of users. That’s the same reason that mobile developers are looking to WhatsApp and programs like Kik ...

Kik has a new version out today that makes it the first messenger app to offer a built-in browser experience that’s integrated into messages themselves for easy sharing. The browser is designed to ...

With the end of the year approaching, it’s getting close to that time again when we have to start looking back on 2014 in order to see what was trending over the past 12 months. Sometimes what I find ...

There is no hotter space in the mobile world today than messaging. At the moment, there are 5 companies doing battle for messaging supremacy: Tencent’s WeChat, WhatsApp, Line, Kakao, and Kik. Of these ...

Mobile messaging consolidation is coming fast and heavy recently, with the Viber/Rakuten deal and today’s WhatsApp acquisition by Facebook. Another contender in the space, Waterloo-based Kik, has also ...