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| 22.06.2024 | The Battle for Children's Safety: New York's Diverging Paths | In the ever-evolving landscape of social media regulation, New York Governor Kathy Hochul finds herself at a critical juncture, navigating the complex terrain of protecting children and teens from the potential risks of online platforms. Ho... |
| 22.06.2024 | Surgeon General Urges Social Media Warning Labels for Youth Mental Health | In a bold move, U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy has called on Congress to mandate warning labels on social media platforms to protect the mental health of young individuals. Murthy's plea comes amidst a growing concern over the detrim... |
| 21.06.2024 | ‘Today We Save Our Children’ Says Governor Hochul, Signing Bill That Will Not Save Anyone | New York Governor Kathy Hochul’s response to the horrifying shootings in Buffalo in 2022 was not to look for ways to limit access to guns or improve mental health care. It was not to look into why law enforcement ignored the threats that th... |
| 17.06.2024 | Surgeon General calls for warning labels on social media platforms | figcaption>span]:font-sans" data-chromatic="ignore">
U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy called on Congress Monday to require social media platforms to display warning labels alerting users of the potential harms the ... |
| 08.06.2024 | New York lawmakers pass measure to protect youths on social media | NEW YORK : New York state lawmakers on Friday passed legislation to bar social media platforms from exposing "addictive" algorithmic content to users under age 18 without parental consent, becoming the latest of several states mov... |
| 08.05.2024 | The Crypto Lawsuit State of Play
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Elsewhere: | Last month, Ethereum incubator ConsenSys sued the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for an injunction asking a federal court to block the regulator from investigating its MetaMask offering or from declaring Ether (ETH) a securit... |
| 08.05.2024 | Social media firms told to use facial recognition for kids in the UK | Social media giants could use facial recognition to prevent children accessing violent content, new Ofcom guidance in the UK suggests, writes Meike Leonard.
The regulator said that tech firms must step up to "aggressive algorithms"... |
| 07.05.2024 | Biden signs bill to protect children from online sexual abuse and exploitation | On April 29, Senators Jon Ossoff (D-GA) and Marsha Blackburn (R-SC) proposed a bipartisan bill to protect children from online sexual exploitation.
President Biden officially signed the REPORT Act into law on Tuesday. This marks the first t... |
| 20.04.2024 | Staying Safe In Anonymous Chat Rooms | Share
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Many people these days like to use anonymous chat rooms to meet new people and spend time with them, albeit online. In general, it can be a wonderful tool for socializing, which many of us enjoy using. For thos... |
| 21.03.2024 | Thousands Of Young People Told Us Why The Kids Online Safety Act Will Be Harmful To Minors | ___________________
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How young people feel about the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) matters. It will primarily affect them, and many, many teenagers oppose the bill. Some have been calling and emailing legislators to tell ... |
| 21.05.2021 | Content Moderation Case Study: Kik Tries To Get Abuse Under Control (2017) | Summary: The messaging service Kik was founded in 2009 and has gone through multiple iterations over the years. However, it seemed to build a large following for mostly anonymous communication, allowing users to create many new usernames no... |
| 11.05.2021 | Home insurance startup Kin raises $64M | - |
| 30.09.2020 | Kik Responds to Court Ruling in Favor of SEC | |
| 20.10.2019 | Good: Kik Messenger will live on. Bad: ads | Things have been very much up in the air for users of Kik Messenger after its owner Kik announced plans to close down the messaging tool and focus on its Kin cryptocurrency. But now things have changed.
Kik has announced that Kik Messenger ... |
| 19.10.2019 | MediaLab acquires messaging app Kik, expanding its app portfolio | Popular messaging app Kik is, indeed, “here to stay” following an acquisition by the Los Angeles-based multimedia holding company, MediaLab.
It echoes the same message from Kik’s chief executive Tim Livingston last week when he rebuffed ear... |
| 07.08.2019 | The Kik Answer | I have mentioned the legal case between USV portfolio company Kik and the SEC several times here on AVC, most recently here.
Last night Kik filed a 130 page Answer to the SEC and made this press release.
The story was picked up by Coindesk ... |
| 06.08.2019 | In a 130-page court filing, Kik claims the SEC’s lawsuit ‘twists’ the facts about its online token | CEO Ted Livingston of Kik
Kik Interactive has hit back at the Securities and Exchange Commission lawsuit that claims a $100 million token sale was illegal. The company, which owns Kik Messenger, filed a 130-page response today in U.S. Distr... |
| 04.06.2019 | SEC expands its war on cryptocurrency companies with a lawsuit against Kik | The Securities and Exchange Commission has sued Kik Interactive for the $100 million token sale the company announced two years ago.
It’s an expansion of legal actions that began last year as the SEC seeks to rein in companies that the regu... |
| 28.05.2019 | DefendCrypto.org | Over the last year, the SEC has been investigating a significant number of token offerings that took place in 2017. While some of those offerings were scams or worse, many of the ones that are being investigated by the SEC are serious proje... |
| 31.10.2018 | Not a Luxury Anymore — Why Tech Is Necessary to Control Costs | No matter what industry you’re in, staying profitable is always a priority. Reducing overhead costs is vital to this goal, and most advice for doing so these days involves technology.
But investing in new tech can seem like a luxury that co... |
| 30.07.2018 | Kin Developer Program | Kin, the cryptocurrency launched by Kik (a USV portfolio company), recently launched a developer challenge. The challenge: build a breakout cryptocurrency-based consumer experience.
Kin is a cryptocurrency focused on driving mainstream cons... |
| 15.03.2018 | RIP ICOs? | The breakaway money-creating machines of cryptofinance in 2017 are in trouble here in the early-going of 2018, and it might get worse for initial coin offerings, according to many people in the blockchain world.
But that might not be the wo... |
| 01.03.2018 | Uber co-founder Garrett Camp is creating a new cryptocurrency | Garrett Camp, best known for being a co-founder of Uber and founder of the accelerator/venture fund Expa, is launching his own cryptocurrency.
The currency is called Eco, and Camp wants it to be a digital global currency that can be used as... |
| 01.11.2017 | Токеномика – Бизнес-гид по использованию, функциям и ценности токенов + чек-лист на жизнеспособность вашего токена... | 1 1 комментарий
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Я работаю в стартапе MeetnGreetMe. Недавно мы анонсировали выход на ICO. При подготовке к ICO эта статья оказалась для нас очень полезной, и я думаю, что она будет полезна всем, кто задумывается о выпуске соб... |
| 29.09.2017 | Some VCs want to jump into ICOs, but a host of challenges remain | Venture capitalists are in a pickle. Companies have raised more than $1.7 billion through initial coin offerings, or ICOs, this year by selling their own customized virtual currencies. For the companies, the trend is a godsend. They can rai... |
| 27.09.2017 | Kik ICO Raises $98 Million But Falls Short of Target | Social media platform Kik has officially closed its initial coin offering (ICO), having raised a total of $98 million.
The firm's dedicated ICO webpage states that the public portion of the sale raised a total of 168,732 ether (the token po... |
| 26.09.2017 | Kik raises nearly $100M in highest profile ICO to date | The highest profile ICOs from a consumer internet company to date has come to a close after messaging app Kik raised nearly $100 million from its token sale.
The exact amount is 168,732 ETH — around $47.5 million based on today’s $282 ETH p... |
| 26.09.2017 | Kik raises $98 million in Kin cryptocurrency token sale | Chat app Kik announced today that it has raised nearly $100 million from more than 10,000 people in its token distribution event. In fact, $42 million of the $98.8 million was raised in the first 48 hours of a sale that took place Sept. 12 ... |
| 26.09.2017 | Kik raises $98 million in Kin cryptocurrency token sale | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Chat app Kik announced today that it has raised n... |
| 12.09.2017 | Kik could pave the way for more mainstream tech company ICOs | The tech industry is about to get its largest clue as to just how mainstream ICOs can become.
Most of the estimated $1.7 billion that has been raised this year from ICOs (initial coin offering), also known as token sales, has been from comp... |
| 09.09.2017 | Video Of The Week: William and Ted | Our portfolio company Kik is doing a token offering for its Kin crypto token this coming week.
AVC regular William Mougayar interviewed Kik founder/CEO Ted Livingston a few weeks ago and their talk is the video of the week this week. |
| 31.08.2017 | Kik Interactive Closes Presale Round of US$50M; Launches US$125M Token Distribution Event | Kik Interactive, a Waterloo, Ontario, Canada-based creator of the Kik chat platform, closed a presale round of US$50m to select accredited investors.
Backers included Blockchain Capital, Pantera Capital, and Polychain Capital.
Kik Interacti... |
| 30.08.2017 | Term Sheet — Wednesday, August 30 | MEET ME AT THE BARRE
Good morning, Term Sheet readers. Here’s an interesting deal that caught my eye yesterday.
Paid Content Securing the enterprise without boundaries From ExtraHop
This is Hyatt’s second acquisition in the wellness space. ... |
| 29.08.2017 | Mobile Messenger Kik Raises $50 Million Ahead of $75 Million ICO | Mobile messaging app Kik has raised $50 million from the private sale of its ethereum token Kin to institutional investors, including Blockchain Capital, Pantera Capital and Polychain Capital.
The announcement is notable as Kik's Kin token ... |
| 29.08.2017 | Kik raises $50 million ahead of token sale for its cryptocurrency Kin | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Kik Interactive announced today that a token dist... |
| 29.08.2017 | Chat app Kik to raise $125M through an ICO in September | Messaging app company Kik has revealed that it plans to raise $125 million via its ICO.
The company first announced the plan to hold a token sale in May, taking advantage of a rush of investment based around selling dedicated crypto tokens ... |
| 29.08.2017 | Top startups shaping the future of chatbots | Many startups are creating bots to be our personal assistants
When most people think of chatbots, they likely think of the major platforms and big companies making waves in the space, such as Facebook Messenger, Slack, Line, Amazon and Goog... |
| 29.08.2017 | Kik raises $50 million ahead of token sale for its cryptocurrency Kin | Kik Interactive announced today that a token distribution event (TDE) for the sale of its cryptocurrency Kin will start September 12 at 6 a.m. Pacific time. Kik, a chat app with a community of 50 million monthly active users, is one of the ... |
| 28.08.2017 | How some of the major tech companies are deploying chatbots | Microsoft, Google, Facebook, Amazon and Slack have all made chatbots a key part of their strategies
2016 was the year that chatbots went mainstream, with companies like Kik launching their own bot stores, and companies, such as Shopify buyi... |
| 16.08.2017 | The ‘reverse ICO’: How existing businesses will start tokenizing | The amount of money generated by the Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) of blockchain-based companies is astounding. In July alone, ICOs generated $500 million of funding, bringing the all-time total to over $1.6 billion. That doesn’t even inclu... |
| 26.06.2017 | 5 bots to try this week: Beam, Magic 8 Bot, Nonstop Chuck Norris, AeroBot, and Diply | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Here are the five most popular bots this past week, as they appear on Botlist: Beam, Magic 8 Bot, Nonstop Chuck Norris, AeroBot, and Di... |
| 26.06.2017 | 5 bots to try this week: Beam, Magic 8 Bot, Nonstop Chuck Norris, AeroBot, and Diply | Here are the five most popular bots this past week, as they appear on Botlist: Beam, Magic 8 Bot, Nonstop Chuck Norris, AeroBot, and Diply. Give them a try and let us know what you think. 5. Beam
Allow Discord to automatically sync your Bea... |
| 20.06.2017 | Kik CEO explains why its doing an ICO instead of venture fundraising | Ted Livingston, CEO of messaging app Kik, spoke on stage at TechCrunch’s event in Shenzhen, China on Tuesday. Moderator Jon Russell asked him about why the company is doing an initial coin offering (ICO), a newly popularized method of fundr... |
| 30.05.2017 | Omise to raise $19M in first cryptocurrency sale from a major VC-backed startup | The tech industry is opening its eyes to the possibilities of raising money using cryptocurrencies like bitcoin and Ethereum through ‘initial coin offerings,’ and it’s about to see the first ICO from a major venture-backed company.
Last wee... |
| 25.05.2017 | Chat App Kik to Mint Own Cryptocurrency | When Ted Livingston was bitten by the Bitcoin bug in 2011, he became convinced that cryptocurrency would change the world—except for one fundamental hitch. Hardly anybody was getting paid in and using it.
Livingston, the founder and CEO of ... |
| 25.05.2017 | Kin | Our portfolio company Kik announced some big news today.
They are going to decentralize Kik and use a new cryptocurrency called Kin to build a business model around a decentralized Kik and, hopefully, attract other developers to build decen... |
| 25.05.2017 | Chat app Kik takes on Facebook with developer ecosystem built on the blockchain | There’s been much talk of ICOs — initial coin offerings — amid the rising value of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies like Ethereum. Now the industry is about to see its first ‘big name’ move into the space after Kik announced plans to intr... |
| 20.04.2017 | Canada is North America’s up-and-coming startup center | Conrad Egusa Contributor
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| 26.01.2017 | Kik snaps up video chat app maker Rounds for a reported $60-$80 million | Messaging company Kik has made its second major acquisition after it scooped up Israel-based mobile video app maker Rounds in an undisclosed deal.
Though neither side is giving a price, you would imagine that it is more than what Kik paid f... |
| 22.12.2016 | Chat is the new web browser | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Few people picked up on one of the most interesti... |
| 19.12.2016 | Kik chat app now makes group video calls | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
In an update of the chat app Kik, starting today users can now make video calls with up to six people.
Facebook Messenger also added gr... |
| 19.12.2016 | Kik adds group video chat to its messaging app | Kik, the chat app that’s hugely popular among teens and young people in North America, is finally adding video chat to its service.
Rather than straight up person-to-person video calls like Apple’s FaceTime, Facebook Messenger or the recent... |
| 01.12.2016 | 4 tips for building the best bots | It’s been seven months since we launched Kik’s Bot Shop, and we’ve seen more than 20,000 bots created in that time. We’ve also approved more than 150 bots to be featured in the Bot Shop, following strict standards to ensure a high-quality e... |
| 30.11.2016 | The Bots Landscape evolves, adds heavyweights like Google Assistant, funds 14 more Slack bots | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
About a year ago I left Google to join Slack, and... |
| 22.11.2016 | The New Improved Kik | Our portfolio company Kik quietly pushed out a new improved version of its popular mobile messaging app yesterday. The only press was a short blog post.
But if you are a frequent user of Kik, as I am, you will immediately notice that its cl... |
| 09.11.2016 | The Threat of a Brain Drain Under a Trump Presidency Is Real | On Tuesday evening, as early election results began to tip in favour of Donald Trump becoming the next US president, Canada's immigration site actually crashed temporarily because it was getting so much traffic. A lot of Americans have eith... |
| 07.11.2016 | How our dumb bot attracted 1 million users without even trying | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Three months ago, we released a modest chatbot th... |
| 02.09.2016 | Digital health companies raised almost $224 million in August | Digital health funding in August
So far this year, MobiHealthNews has tracked digital funding that has reached nearly $1.35 billion. August was a healthy month for funding, bringing in $223.86 million across 19 deals, putting it slightly ab... |
| 28.08.2016 | How multi-platform thinking helped Swell reach 100,000 users in one month | As I’m writing this, Swelly bot has 33,349 daily active users sending 533,176 messages.
It was about two months ago that our team at Swell first thought bots could be an interesting space for us. We’ve always thought of Swell as a multi-pla... |
| 24.08.2016 | What would Alexa do? | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Every once in a while, a product comes along that... |
| 24.08.2016 | What would Alexa do? | Every once in a while, a product comes along that changes everyone’s expectations of what’s possible in user interfaces. The Mac. The World Wide Web. The iPhone. Alexa belongs in that elite group of game-changers. Siri didn’t make it over t... |
| 09.08.2016 | Cognitive therapy startup Koko raises $2.5M, launches chatbot with Kik messaging service | New York-based startup Koko, which uses artificial intelligence for crowd-sourced cognitive therapy, raised $2.5M in Series A funding, with Omidyar Network and Union Square Ventures leading the round. The company also announced the launch o... |
| 04.08.2016 | Kik Now Has More Than 20,000 Bots, With Users Exchanging 1.8 Billion Messages With Them | Lauren Keating, Tech Times 04 August 2016, 12:08 pm
If chatbots really are the future of messaging app communication, then Kik wants to make sure it kills the competition with its army of them.
Kik announced a major milestone when it comes ... |
| 03.08.2016 | Kik users have exchanged over 1.8 billion messages with the platform’s 20,000 chatbots | After a few months of testing the waters, Kik is still bullish on chatbots and has quite a few reasons to be.
Just last May at TechCrunch Disrupt NY, Kik CEO Ted Livingston divulged that developers had built over 6,000 chatbots on the platf... |
| 03.08.2016 | Why in-chat ecommerce is the ‘next big thing’ | Imagine this typical mobile conversation: A couple of friends quickly connect via chat to see if they can still make a concert that night. To find out if tickets are available, they leave their messaging app, open up their mobile browser or... |
| 20.07.2016 | Surge in bot creation leads to rise of bot directories | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
With the countless bots that have appeared lately... |
| 20.07.2016 | Surge in bot creation leads to rise of bot directories | With the countless bots that have appeared lately, finding ones to use is becoming increasingly difficult. When you type “bot” into the Google search box, you receive literally hundreds of thousands of results. Going through all of them wou... |
| 19.07.2016 | Slack Fund has now invested $30M into 14 bot companies | Less than $2M of that came from Slack, with the rest put in by VC partners, including Accel and KPCB
Slack has no shortage of funding to play with. The company been raising a ton of money since the end of 2014, including $200 million in Apr... |
| 17.07.2016 | Kik president Josh Jacobs explains why all bots should be cross-platform | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
This week during VentureBeat’s MobileBeat conference, Kik president Josh Jacobs took the stage with Veronica Belmont to talk about the ... |
| 17.07.2016 | Kik president Josh Jacobs explains why all bots should be cross-platform | This week during VentureBeat’s MobileBeat conference, Kik president Josh Jacobs took the stage with Veronica Belmont to talk about the company’s evolution from chat app to chat platform.
You can watch the full interview above.
VentureBeat V... |
| 16.06.2016 | Microsoft buys Wand Labs to go deeper into chat bots | Chat bots have become all the rage this year, with companies like Facebook and Kik making their mark
Microsoft may have just made the largest acquisition in social media history, but that doesn't mean the company is slowing down one bit.
Th... |
| 16.06.2016 | The state of bots: 11 examples of conversational commerce in 2016 | Two trends — the exploding popularity of mobile messaging apps and advances in artificial intelligence — are coinciding to enable a new generation of tools that enable brands to communicate with customers in powerful new ways at reduced cos... |
| 25.05.2016 | Foursquare launches a bot for food and drink recommendations | Marsbot is currently available on iOS in New York City and San Francisco
One of the most interesting trends in the first half of this year has been the number of companies, particularly in the social space, that have been turning to bots. C... |
| 14.05.2016 | Video Of The Week: Chat, Bots, and Kik | Ted Livingston, founder and CEO of our portfolio company Kik, did an interview last week at Disrupt in which he talked about the chat market, bots, and Kik’s role in all of that. |
| 29.04.2016 | Parents Be Warned: Kid-Friendly Kik App May Expose Kids To Online Predators | Louise Chan, Tech Times 29 April 2016, 11:04 am
We have said it before and we will say it again: many, though not all, applications and software risk exposing kids to unwanted attention and identity theft whether we like it or not.
One such... |
| 13.04.2016 | Shopify turns to chat bots with acquisition of Kit CRM | Kit, a virtual marketing assistant for stores, will remain in operation under the Shopify umbrella
Does anyone remember SmarterChild? He was a bot that you could talk to via AIM back in the day. You could ask him stuff like about movie time... |
| 07.04.2016 | Мессенджер Kik запустил магазин ботов | Отдел новостей 7 апреля 2016, 12:43 Мессенджер Kik запустил магазин ботов
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| 05.04.2016 | Chat app Kik launches a bot store and anyone can make bots for it | It seems like barely a day passes without some notable mention of chat bots in the tech industry. Now one of North America’s most used chat apps has jumped on the wagon after Kik, the billion dollar mobile messaging service particularly pop... |
| 05.04.2016 | Kik launches a Bot Shop for its messaging platform | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Kik is joining the mobile messaging revolution with a new marketplace featuring bots that are “entertaining, playful, and useful.” The ... |
| 05.04.2016 | The Kik Bot Platform | Our portfolio company Kik launched its bot platform today. Kik has supported bots for several years but they were limited to bots from publishers and brands that were willing to make a significant effort to be on the Kik platform.
What is n... |
| 05.04.2016 | Kik Launches a 'Bot Shop,' Because Bot Shops Are the New App Stores | April 5, 2016 5 min read This story originally appeared on Fortune Magazine
Waterloo-based messaging app Kik has launched a “bot shop” that will function a bit like Apple’s App Store, only for chat bots.
The Kik bot shop with exist as a spe... |
| 05.04.2016 | Kik launches a Bot Shop for its messaging platform | Kik is joining the mobile messaging revolution with a new marketplace featuring bots that are “entertaining, playful, and useful.” The company has launched with 16 different bots, including those from Funny or Die, J-14, Riffsy, Sephora, Vi... |
| 05.04.2016 | Kik Messaging App Opens Up A Bot Shop For Third-Party Developers | Lauren Keating, Tech Times 05 April 2016, 03:04 pm
The messaging app Kik is one step ahead of you, Facebook.
Kik announced on Tuesday that it has officially opened up a shop for third-party developers to be able to create bots that can be u... |
| 01.04.2016 | Kik CEO Ted Livingston to discuss the future of mobile messaging at Disrupt NY 2016 | Messaging is the hot topic of 2016, which is why we’re tremendously excited to announce that Ted Livingston, the founder and CEO of popular chat app Kik, is confirmed as a speaker at our upcoming TechCrunch Disrupt event in New York from Ma... |
| 31.03.2016 | Canadian Judge Orders VICE News Journalist to Hand Over Digital Messages | An Ontario court has ruled that a VICE News reporter must hand over all communications between him and an Islamic State fighter to Canada's federal police force.
Last month, VICE Media fought the Royal Canadian Mounted Police's (RCMP) court... |
| 17.03.2016 | Digg unveils a news bot for Slack, coming soon to other messaging platforms | News aggregator Digg may no longer be the internet force it once was, but it still offers an interesting and engaging selection of curated news articles and videos across a number of categories, from science and technology to viral Internet... |
| 01.03.2016 | Why bots, not A.I., are the future of chat | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
At Kik, we’ve been thinking about the coming bot revolution for a long time. We first launched a basic bot platform a year and a half a... |
| 04.02.2016 | Kik Introduces Branded GIFs, Initially Partners With WWF And 'Zoolander No. 2' | Sumit Passary, Tech Times 04 February 2016, 07:02 am
Kik, the instant messenger app, has introduced branded GIFs on its service, giving companies a chance to expand their marketing efforts.
Kik is valued at about $1 billion and the chat app... |
| 02.02.2016 | Messaging App Kik Begins Offering Branded GIFs | Brands, start your GIF engines. Kik, the chat app with over 275 million registered users, is giving companies the chance to augment their existing marketing efforts with branded GIF campaigns on its messaging service.
Kik, which is valued a... |
| 04.01.2016 | Kik Interactive Acquires Blynk | Kik Interactive, Inc., a Waterloo, Ontario, Canada-based chat platform, has acquired Blynk, the Toronto, Canada-based maker of BlynkStyle, a mobile app that operates as a personal fashion stylist.
The amount of the deal was not disclosed.
F... |
| 26.12.2015 | M&A roundup - week ending 12/26/15 | Microsoft bought Talko; Kik acquired Blynk; Salesforce purchased SteelBrick
Kik, a Canadian mobile messaging app acquired fashion advice bot Blynk. No financial terms of the deal were disclosed.
Blynk, which calls itself "your free per... |
| 21.12.2015 | Mobile messaging app Kik acquires fashion advice bot Blynk | Kik says that the Blynk team will help it develop more bots and chat assistants to cater to teens
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 ... |
| 20.12.2015 | Contextual Runtimes | Benedict Evans is such a great analyst and his insight into the web>mobile transition has been consistently prescient and helpful to investors, including USV and me personally.
A couple days ago, he penned “16 mobile thesis” which is a m... |
| 16.11.2015 | Chat App Kik’s Newest Feature Makes Sending GIFs As Easy As Emoji | Kik, the messaging app popular among teens and young people in North America, has rolled out an interesting new feature that makes sending a GIF as easy as an emoji.
As of today, the chat app now includes an integrated GIF search feature wh... |
| 04.11.2015 | Startup Physics | I have used the word “physics” to describe a few things here at AVC over the years. I am tempted to write a “textbook” on this topic as I have observed many “formulas” over the years that seem to repeat themselves again and again.
A few exa... |
| 27.10.2015 | Mobile Messaging For Marketers 101 | Harrison Shih Contributor
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| 26.10.2015 | Reuters: VC Investment in Canada at 14-year high | In the Thomson Reuters Canadian Venture Capital Review for the first three quarters of 2015, Canadian companies collectively raised a 14-year high of $1.95 billion in venture capital. According to the Reuters report, this amount already exc... |
| 08.09.2015 | Chat App Kik Introduces QR Codes To Connect Users And Brands | Mobile messaging company Kik recently landed investment from Tencent at a billion dollar valuation, and now it is borrowing a hallmark of the Chinese company’s blockbuster WeChat app: QR codes.
Kik CEO and co-founder Ted Livingston last mon... |
| 20.08.2015 | Line Messenger Releases Line Here, Its New Location-Sharing App | Mobile messenger Line has unleashed its latest standalone app, a location-sharing service called Line Here. Line users can already share their location in chats, but Line Here extends that service to people who haven’t downloaded the messag... |
| 19.08.2015 | Daily funding roundup - August 19, 2015 | Kik raised $50M; SpotHero pulled $20M; Thrive Bioscience closed a $4M
If you thought unicorn fever was coming to an end, I'm sorry to break it to you, but it's still out there. There have been 18 new billion companies in the first half of t... |
