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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Kik, the hot mobile chat application we wrote about two weeks ago that was seeing explosive growth, has been pulled from the Blackberry app market App World. RIM, the maker of Blackberry phones, told ...

Our Verify squad cuts through online rumors and get you the facts. A viewer who uses the mobile messenger app, Kik, regularly had a question. She said she heard it will be going away Sept. 27. Rumors ...

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 ...

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 ...

When news breaks, you need to understand what actually matters — and what to do about it. At Vox, our mission to help you make sense of the world has never been more vital. But we can’t do it on our ...

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 ...