07Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials is coming to cinemas on September 18. However, if the wait is killing you and you are just too eager to find out what will happen to the Gladers next and what WCKD’s got in store for them, you should definitely install Kik. Kik Promoted Chat The other day, Canadian…
01A text made of emojis? Could this actually be done? Last week our team found out that Sony Pictures Animation was going to create an animation movie, using only emojis. The new week arrived and the KIK development team got down to thinking whether a screenplay of over 300 pages long can be written with…
22Founder and CEO of Kik Interactive, Inc.
21KIK – is a Canadian messenger, which was created in 2009. A group of young boys from the University of Waterloo (Ontario, Canada) has decided to move away from the traditional applications for computers and focus on the smartphone owners. Chinese messenger WeChat served as an example for them, as in 2009 it could be…
21A new friendly Invi messaging app for Android and iOS The Invi messenger, which came out in beta this month, is making its way in the market, which is dominated by such monsters as Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp and WeChat. Invi’s major goal is to give users an enjoyable communication experience. The development team has taken…
20Hey there! Welcome back to another edition of IM news. Now let’s talk about this week’s key events. AppMess News #14 Slack is welcoming user feedback. This is why it has become easier to work with personalized messages in the recently updated messenger. This means that if you put @here in front of a text,…
20PhotoDNA on the Internet Kik Interactive became the first company in Canada that began using the PhotoDNA technology, a Microsoft product, in order to protect its users. Let us recall, that PhotoDNA is a technology of fighting the spreading of illegal images. It transfers photos into the format understandable by computer – mathematical values –…
14When Kik upgraded last time, it was about fighting spam and improving the functionality for working with videos. The new updates are about letting users save images and videos directly from the app’s chat windows. Images and video can be downloaded from Kik’s chat window It’s that simple and predictable: by tapping an image and holding…
082009 marked the birth year of BlackBerry’s very own texting app. However, the app appeared in all its glory in 2011, when, amid riots in London, it reaffirmed its status as a rather reliable means of communication. Kik can be thought of as BlackBerry’s product, since Ted Livingston was directly involved in its development during…
02Kik updated Kik, the first texting app that decided to become a platform, has been updated. Unfortunately, the most recent update doesn’t have anything to do with the platform that Ted Livingston, company CEO, has been going on and on about. It does, however, touch on user experience. Having done the math, the Canadians chose to…