Sentences with phrase «while kik»

While Kik's crypto token wallet is available for use, it doesn't activate beyond a preview until kin is loaded into it for the first time.

While Kik said it would move its «kin» crypto tokens off ethereum and onto stellar, today it announced it was allowing the tokens to live on both.

While Kik likely makes the ten - figure cut (Livingston also won't disclose Kik's own valuation figures), it tends not to attract the kind of buzz that venture capitalists and the tech press fawn over.

What had started as an idea for a music app that would make it easier for BlackBerry owners to listen to music on their devices, had to be downgraded to a mere chat service while Kik waited on licensing deals.

Not exact matches

One reason Kik is popular with teens is because, while most other messaging - first services require a phone number to register, Kik bases accounts on user names instead.

The study by The Associated Press - NORC Center for Public Affairs Research also found that while almost all teens — 91 percent — use the regular text messaging tool on their mobile phones, 40 percent of teens also use messaging applications like Kik, WhatsApp, or Line on a smartphone.

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.

While it might sound unlikely, social messaging app Kik has announced it'll be doing just that with its «kin» token, which allowed the company to raise $ 98 million in an initial coin offering (ICO) in September.

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.

While a notable total, the preliminary figures suggest Kik is performing comparably to other major ICOs focused more on die - hard technology users.

The move, while notable given Kik's role in popularizing the ICO concept, is not unique for blockchain startups.

While it might sound unlikely, social messaging app Kik has announced it'll be doing just that with...