Kik Interactive, the creator of the popular chat
platform Kik, today announced Kin's upcoming token distribution event (TDE) will commence on Tuesday, Sept. 12,...
Social media
platform Kik opens up about its plans to launch a cryptocurrency, saying the move could fulfill long - held business goals.
Social media
platform Kik closed its initial coin offering yesterday with a total of $ 98 million raised — falling short of its funding target.
Social media
platform Kik has officially closed its initial coin offering (ICO), having raised a total of $ 98 million.
Not exact matches
Kik's fiercest competitor in the battle to dominate this new era of interfaces is Facebook, which has been encouraging developers to build bots for its Messenger
platform and whose WhatsApp subsidiary is finally opening up to business uses.
Emoticast is the company behind TuneMoji, apps that allow users share music GIFs with sound across
platforms such as iMessage, Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, and
Kik.
Sale proceeds will be used to build a new
platform: the Kin ecosystem, which will offer a host of decentralized products and services, according to
Kik «s white paper.
Kik offers richer engagement than you'd get on a broadcast - based
platform like Facebook or Twitter — the comedy video website Funny or Die, for example, has had conversations with 1.5 million chatters on
Kik, and users send an average of seven messages to a brand per chat.
Digital identity
platform Civic is planning an offering that could top that, according to CNBC, but neither has raised anything like the capital from traditional VCs as
Kik or Omise.
Other messaging
platforms, such as
Kik, Line and Telegram, are also experimenting with chatbots developed by third - party companies.
Kik among 14, and ios
platforms.
Besides showcasing another extremely tragic case of how BlackBerry has completely missed the mobile messaging explosion over the last three years — when BlackBerry possibly could have starved WhatsApp and
Kik when they first came onto the scene — BlackBerry is now bringing the only unique service offering the company has left to other
platforms in order to try to compete with other messaging services.
Even keeping up with
Kik would require gaining 40 million to 80 million registered users on iOS and Android
platforms over the next nine months.
BBM has a direct parallel in Apple's iMessage, and third - party apps like
Kik or Samsung's ChatON let users chat across
platforms where BBM is limited to RIM's phones.
«
Kik is all about sharing, buying and experiencing music on a mobile
platform, so integrating with BBM will deliver huge value to our users,» said
Kik CEO Ted Livingston.
Ultimately, I believe judges should emulate Justice Knazan the next time they are faced with a case that centres around Twitter (or Facebook, snapchat,
kik, WhatsApp, LinkedIn, tumblr, instagram, Tinder, etc...) and put it to the participants in the matter to explain how the
platform works, why the evidence should be accepted and what relevance any of it has to the legal issue before the court.
Regular readers will know
Kik introduced its HTML5 - based «Cards» content
platform last year, the idea being that user can customize their messaging experience by installing features like GIFs, YouTube search and games into
Kik with a fast, efficient, in - app download.
The system today integrates with any voice or text messaging
platform, Google says, including Facebook,
Kik, Viber, Slack, WhatsApp, WeChat, Alexa, Cortana, Allo, Line, Skype, Twitter, and more.
Today, Yahoo unveiled three bots for the
Kik platform: @yahoonews; @yahooweather; and @MonkeyPets, a virtual emoji - loving companion.
For
Kik, the crypto token is about allowing users of its
platform to purchase digital goods and in the future, even physical goods more easily, and according to many industry stakeholders, the launch of kin will be an early test of whether this pans out.
In June,
Kik CEO Ted Livingston appeared at the San Francisco Bitcoin Meetup to chat with World Crypto Network host Thomas Hunt about the creation of Kin, a new cryptocurrency that will be used on the
Kik platform.
Most users bought kin because they want to use it on
Kik's
platform.
After raising a $ 19.5 million Series B round,
Kik launched its first game — roping in high - profile entertainment firm Zynga — and stickers this July, but the Cards
platform is not yet available publicly for developers.
Microsoft recently announced its own AI - powered bot
platform, and Messenger rival
Kik launched its own bot store last week.
The much anticipated token sale for social messaging giant
Kik, which is today offering buyers the chance to purchase tokens that will power future apps on its
platform, launched at 9 a.m. EST, drawing
I asked Gundry and fellow co-founder Adam Ludwin why they picked
Kik ahead of more lucrative game
platforms on other messaging apps — Korea's Kakao Talk grossed $ 311 million from gaming alone in the first half of this year, while Japan's Line racked up $ 53.7 million from in - game purchases in its last quarter of business.
The much anticipated token sale for social messaging giant
Kik, which is today offering buyers the chance to purchase tokens that will power future apps on its
platform, launched at 9 a.m. EST, drawing upwards of $ 70 million in its first few hours.
However,
Kik isn't the only messaging
platform that is focusing on blockchain technology.
For example, artists currently create stickers that users can send with messages on the
Kik platform.
According to those involved, one of the chief reasons for the exploration are the costs inherent in using the ethereum
platform, as well as
Kik's specific goals for its token.
With the popular messaging app
KIK migrating to the Stellar
platform, the team will necessarily have to employ creative and effective solutions to handle the increased usage.
Although the
platform would currently be unable to fully support
Kik's plans, Lightning could change that.
The company is the maker of
Kik, a chat
platform popular with U.S. teens where people can chat with friends and connect with chat - based services.
Kik is one of a number of messaging firms going beyond just text chatting but unlike US rival Tango, Asia's Kakao Talk and Line, and others,
Kik's
platform supports HTML5 - based Web apps rather than offering an SDK for standalone apps or games.
Rewards tokens: Tokens embedded into the
platform to encourage user behaviors found to be beneficial to the
platform (e.g.
Kik's Kin token).