Sentences with phrase «kik points»

Morehead added that Kik ran an in - app virtual currency, which was known as Kik Points, for three years, so the company already has experience with similar technology.

The company previously ran a program called Kik points but is now pursuing a decentralized token called Kin.

The main differences between Kik Points and Kin are that the tokens are capped, helping to minimize the potential impact of inflation.

Not exact matches

Kik co-founder and chief technology officer Chris Best hinted as much during an episode of The Disruptors on Business News Network, grinning and admitting that «probably, possibly, at some point, yes» that would be the goal.

While RIM has tried to keep BBM as a selling point of the BlackBerry and will even have a dedicated BBM key on future BlackBerry Curves, its diminishing market share and the existences of equal or superior services like iMessage and Kik has dampened that advantage.

All three of these points are reasons that Kik has grown its user base to 100 million registrations from just 30 million this time last year, Livingston says.

Kik itself has just introduced a subtle multimedia sharing option and, as Tech In Asia points out, keeping things simple is harming WhatsApp in emerging markets.

Kik was also the first to sync up address books to suggest «people that you may know,» and help move a user's friends — a key point for messenger stickiness — onto the service too.

Kik is due to release their whitepaper today, at which point they expect to start working with the crypto community, which will lead to their crowdsale in the next few months.