Kik Messenger (English Wikipedia)

Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Kik Messenger" in English language version.

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adweek.com

"Can Kik Beat Snapchat With New Targeting Capabilities for Brands?". Ad Week. March 5, 2015.

apkmirror.com

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apple.com

apps.apple.com

"Kik Messenger: Version History: 16.8.3 Feb 25, 2023". 25 February 2023. Retrieved 30 March 2023.
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bbc.co.uk

"Kik chat app 'involved in 1,100 child abuse cases'". BBC. 21 September 2018.

bbc.com

"Kik Messenger app to shut down". BBC. September 24, 2019. Retrieved October 3, 2019.

betakit.com

"KIK APP ACQUIRED BY HOLDING COMPANY MEDIALAB". betakit.

bloomberg.com

Sarah Frier (March 10, 2015). "Kik Adds Tools to Prevent Child Exploitation on Messaging App". Bloomberg.
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De Vynck, Gerrit (8 September 2017). "Kik Blames Canadian Regulators for Skipping Country in ICO". Bloomberg. Retrieved 16 January 2018.

branchez-vous.com

benefice-net.branchez-vous.com

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businessinsider.com

Biz Carson (April 5, 2016). "A messaging app loved by teens just beat Facebook to one of its major announcements". Business Insider.
"Kik continues to push the envelope with launch of new chatbot feature". Business Insider. September 30, 2014.
Weinberger, Matt (March 23, 2016). "One Angry Programmer Almost Broke the Internet by Deleting 11 Lines of Code". Business Insider. Archived from the original on March 24, 2016. Retrieved March 24, 2016.

cbc.ca

"Albertans complain Kik messenger spam bot sending sexual messages". cbc.ca. March 5, 2014.

cbsnews.com

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Kik, Inc. "Kik statement to "48 Hours"". CBS. Retrieved 21 June 2022.
"Kik Messenger App Scrutinized Following 13-Year-Old's Death". CBS News. Associated Press. 2016-02-03. Archived from the original on 2016-02-05. Retrieved 2016-02-12.

cnbc.com

Jackson, Eric (11 July 2017). "Why a messaging start-up is making its own digital currency instead of going public". CNBC. Retrieved 16 January 2018.

cnn.com

edition.cnn.com

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connectsafely.org

"Kik Messenger's Smart New Safety Features". ConnectSafely.org. 2014-05-20. Archived from the original on 2015-05-20. Retrieved 2016-02-13.

dailyrumors.net

"KiK Messenger, free messages for Android, iPhone and BlackBerry". Dailyrumors.net. Archived from the original on November 10, 2010. Retrieved December 17, 2010.

digiday.com

Tanya Dua (October 22, 2015). "Adobe, GS&P and Ad Council introduce eye emoji for new anti-bullying campaign". Digiday.

eff.org

"Secure Messaging Scorecard. Which apps and tools actually keep your messages safe?". Electronic Frontier Foundation. November 4, 2014. Archived from the original on November 15, 2016. Retrieved June 1, 2015.

fastcompany.com

Rose Pastore (January 24, 2017). "Be Inspired By These Creative Leaders Who Are Changing The World". Fast Company. Retrieved March 12, 2017.

financialpost.com

business.financialpost.com

Brownell, Claire (16 June 2017). "Messenger app Kik is betting on its own cryptocurrency to upend the online business model". Financial Post. Retrieved 16 January 2018.

forbes.com

Brewster, Thomas. "This $1 Billion App Can't 'Kik' Its Huge Child Exploitation Problem". Forbes. Retrieved 21 June 2022.
Brewster, Thomas. "Kik Messenger Promised To Remove Child Predators -- I Just Found 10 In 2 Hours". Forbes. Retrieved 21 June 2022.

force.com

medialabai.force.com

"Kik Help Center". medialabai.force.com. Archived from the original on 2021-07-13. Retrieved 2021-07-13.

fortune.com

Erin Griffith (April 5, 2016). "Kik Launches a 'Bot Shop' Because Bot Shops Are the New App Stores". Fortune.
Hackett, Robert (25 May 2017). "Chat App Kik to Mint Own Cryptocurrency". Fortune. Retrieved 12 January 2018.

friendsoftheigf.org

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globalnews.ca

Wong, Julia (February 7, 2014). "Students, parents warned about explicit spam messages on Kik Messenger". Global News.

intomobile.com

Motorola il iDEN. "Kik Messenger app blows past 1 million users". Intomobile.com. Archived from the original on December 30, 2010. Retrieved December 17, 2010.

kik.com

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"Kik Interactive | Crazy Start-Up World". 2010-11-15. Archived from the original on 2010-11-15. Retrieved 2020-10-08.
"Kik adds senior vice president of engineering to scale engineering and product teams". www.kik.com. Retrieved 2020-10-08.
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lawenforcement.kik.com

"Law Enforcement Guide – Law Enforcement Resource Center". 2020-10-08. Archived from the original on 2020-10-08. Retrieved 2020-10-08.
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blog.kik.com

"Kik's Safety Guide for Parents". kik.com. Kik Interactive. 2016-02-04. Archived from the original on 2016-02-13. Retrieved 2016-02-13. If the birthday entered is for someone younger than 13, the account won't be registered.

marketingland.com

Tamar Weinberg (April 5, 2016). "Kik opens Bot Shop to encourage more fun and engaging chat". Marketing Land.

medium.com

Livingston, Ted (September 23, 2019). "Moving Forward Boldly with Kin". Archived from the original on September 24, 2019. Retrieved March 16, 2020.

mmaglobal.com

"Smarties: Congratulations To Our Winners". Mobile Marketing Association (MMA). 2014-10-01. Retrieved 2016-02-12.

mspoweruser.com

Surur (7 December 2017). "Kik says goodbye to Windows Phone". MSPoweruser. Retrieved 23 January 2018.

npmjs.com

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nytimes.com

de la Merced, Michael J. (2015-08-18). "Dealbook: Kik Raises $50 Million From Tencent, in Bid to Become 'WeChat of the West'". The New York Times. New York City. Retrieved 2016-02-13.
Stolberg, Sheryl Gay; Pérez-Peña, Richard (2016-02-05). "Wildly Popular App Kik Offers Teenagers, and Predators, Anonymity". The New York Times. Retrieved 2016-02-13.

pcmag.com

"Only 6 Messaging Apps Are Truly Secure". PC Magazine. November 5, 2014. Retrieved January 8, 2015.

play.google.com

"Kik - Apps on Google Play". play.google.com.

qz.com

Collins, Keith (March 27, 2016). "How one programmer broke the internet by deleting a tiny piece of code". Quartz. Retrieved 30 October 2022.

recode.net

Kurt Wagner (April 5, 2016). "Kik Messenger launched a bot store one week before Facebook is expected to launch a bot store". Recode.

reuters.com

Chavez-Dreyfuss, Gertrude (26 September 2017). "Kik's $100 million in proceeds from token sale below expectations". Reuters. Retrieved 12 January 2018.

techcrunch.com

"Kik already has over 6,000 bots reaching 300 million registered users". Tech Crunch. 11 May 2016.
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Roof, Katie. "Kik CEO explains why its doing an ICO instead of venture fundraising". Tech Crunch. Retrieved 15 November 2017.
Russell, Jon. "Kik raises nearly $100M in highest profile ICO to date". Tech Cruch. Retrieved 15 November 2017.
Biggs, John (July 18, 2018). "Kik launches beta product after $100 million ICO". TechCrunch. Retrieved July 21, 2018.
"Kik says it's 'here to stay,' following shutdown reports". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2019-10-13.
"Kik Introduces An In-Chat Browser For Its Mobile Messaging App". TechCrunch. 14 April 2015.
Jon Russell (March 4, 2015). "Chat App Kik Adds Native Video In Step Towards More Interactive Content". Tech Crunch.
Jon Russell (November 16, 2015). "Chat App Kik's Newest Feature Makes Sending GIFs As Easy As Emoji". Tech Crunch.
Jon Russell (November 6, 2014). "Kik Introduces Promoted Chats To Let Brands On Its Messaging App And Finally Make Money". Tech Crunch.
Russell, Jon (26 September 2017). "Kik raises nearly $100M in highest profile ICO to date". TechCrunch. Retrieved 12 January 2018.

thedrum.com

Steven Raeburn. "Kik social media platform draws police warning". The Drum.

theglobeandmail.com

Dingman, Shane (2015-03-16). "For Fast-Growing Chat Apps Like Waterloo's Kik, Child Exploitation a Pervasive Threat". The Globe and Mail. Toronto, Ontario. Archived from the original on 2015-03-17. Retrieved 2016-02-12.
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therecord.com

Simone, Rose (October 9, 2013). "Kik eager to move on after settling spat with BlackBerry". The Record.com. Retrieved August 8, 2014.

theregister.co.uk

Williams, Chris (March 23, 2016). "How One Developer Just Broke Node, Babel and Thousands of Projects in 11 Lines of JavaScript: Code Pulled From NPM – Which Everyone Was Using". The Register. Archived from the original on 2016-03-24. Retrieved March 24, 2016.

thirdage.com

"Kik Messenger Gets off to a Good Start After October Relaunch". ThirdAge. November 4, 2010. Archived from the original on 2011-07-21. Retrieved December 17, 2010.

torontolife.com

Luc Rinaldi (October 6, 2016). "Toronto's 20 most brilliant tech innovators". Toronto Life. Retrieved March 12, 2017.

trutower.com

"Kik Codes launch on Kik Messenger, making it easier to connect with people | TruTower". TruTower. 8 September 2015. Retrieved 2015-12-17.

uptodown.com

kik-messenger.en.uptodown.com

"Kik Messenger: 15.50.1.27996 Mar 17, 2023". 17 March 2023. Retrieved 30 March 2023.

venturebeat.com

Khari Johnson (October 13, 2016). "Kik steps up efforts to keep teen users safe". Venture Beat.
Ken Yeung (April 5, 2016). "Kik launches a Bot Shop for its messaging platform". Venture Beat.

vox.com

Wagner, Kurt (2015-12-21). "Is Your Messaging App Encrypted?". Vox. Retrieved 2020-10-08.

web.archive.org

"How do I get the Kik app". Archived from the original on 2014-02-21. Retrieved 2014-02-10.
"Is Kik Free?". Archived from the original on 2014-11-08. Retrieved 2014-02-25.
Dingman, Shane (2015-03-16). "For Fast-Growing Chat Apps Like Waterloo's Kik, Child Exploitation a Pervasive Threat". The Globe and Mail. Toronto, Ontario. Archived from the original on 2015-03-17. Retrieved 2016-02-12.
"Kik's Guide for Law Enforcement" (PDF). Kik Messenger. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2017-01-13. Retrieved 2017-01-11.
"Law Enforcement Guide – Law Enforcement Resource Center". 2020-10-08. Archived from the original on 2020-10-08. Retrieved 2020-10-08.
"Download our Emergency Disclosure Request Form – Law Enforcement Resource Center". 2020-10-08. Archived from the original on 2020-10-08. Retrieved 2020-10-08.
""The Product – Bringing Music to the BlackBerry"" (PDF). 2009-11-22. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2009-11-22. Retrieved 2020-10-08.
"Kik | Text Anyone for Free". 2010-05-13. Archived from the original on 2010-05-13. Retrieved 2020-10-08.
"Kik Interactive | Crazy Start-Up World". 2010-11-15. Archived from the original on 2010-11-15. Retrieved 2020-10-08.
"Kik". www.kik.com. Archived from the original on 2020-11-12. Retrieved 2020-11-18.
"Kik Messenger Gets off to a Good Start After October Relaunch". ThirdAge. November 4, 2010. Archived from the original on 2011-07-21. Retrieved December 17, 2010.
"KiK Messenger, free messages for Android, iPhone and BlackBerry". Dailyrumors.net. Archived from the original on November 10, 2010. Retrieved December 17, 2010.
Motorola il iDEN. "Kik Messenger app blows past 1 million users". Intomobile.com. Archived from the original on December 30, 2010. Retrieved December 17, 2010.
"RIM bloque une application concurrente A son service BlackBerry Messenger - ActualitAŠs Techno-AŠconomie - TAŠlAŠcoms et mobilitAŠ". Benefice-net.branchez-vous.com. Archived from the original on November 27, 2010. Retrieved December 17, 2010.
Silcoff, Sean; McNish, Jacquie; Ladurantaye, Steve (September 27, 2013). "Inside the fall of BlackBerry: How the smartphone inventor failed to adapt". The Globe and Mail. Archived from the original on September 30, 2013. Retrieved October 12, 2019.
Livingston, Ted (September 23, 2019). "Moving Forward Boldly with Kin". Archived from the original on September 24, 2019. Retrieved March 16, 2020.
"Kik's Safety Guide for Parents". kik.com. Kik Interactive. 2016-02-04. Archived from the original on 2016-02-13. Retrieved 2016-02-13. If the birthday entered is for someone younger than 13, the account won't be registered.
"Kik Messenger's Smart New Safety Features". ConnectSafely.org. 2014-05-20. Archived from the original on 2015-05-20. Retrieved 2016-02-13.
"Secure Messaging Scorecard. Which apps and tools actually keep your messages safe?". Electronic Frontier Foundation. November 4, 2014. Archived from the original on November 15, 2016. Retrieved June 1, 2015.
Jacobs, Harve (December 5, 2013). "Live 5 Investigates: Predators using Kik messenger phone app". WLOX.com. Archived from the original on February 11, 2015. Retrieved February 11, 2015.
"Kik Help Center". medialabai.force.com. Archived from the original on 2021-07-13. Retrieved 2021-07-13.
Frier, Sarah (2015-03-10). "Kik Adds Tools to Prevent Child Exploitation on Messaging App". Bloomberg.com. Bloomberg News. Archived from the original on 2016-02-16. Retrieved 2016-02-13.
"Dynamic Coalition on Child Online Safety: Disrupting and Reducing the Availability of Child Sex Abuse on the Internet (panel discussion transcript)". friendsoftheigf.org. Friends of the Internet Governance Forum. 2014-03-09. Archived from the original on 2016-02-13. Retrieved 2016-02-13.
Hughes, Trevor (2016-02-05). "Kik messaging app scrutinized in wake of Va. teen's murder". WVEC-TV (Channel 13, ABC). USA Today. Archived from the original on 2016-02-17. Retrieved 2016-02-13.
"Kik Messenger App Scrutinized Following 13-Year-Old's Death". CBS News. Associated Press. 2016-02-03. Archived from the original on 2016-02-05. Retrieved 2016-02-12.
Williams, Chris (March 23, 2016). "How One Developer Just Broke Node, Babel and Thousands of Projects in 11 Lines of JavaScript: Code Pulled From NPM – Which Everyone Was Using". The Register. Archived from the original on 2016-03-24. Retrieved March 24, 2016.
Weinberger, Matt (March 23, 2016). "One Angry Programmer Almost Broke the Internet by Deleting 11 Lines of Code". Business Insider. Archived from the original on March 24, 2016. Retrieved March 24, 2016.

wlox.com

Jacobs, Harve (December 5, 2013). "Live 5 Investigates: Predators using Kik messenger phone app". WLOX.com. Archived from the original on February 11, 2015. Retrieved February 11, 2015.

wsj.com

Weinberg, Stuart (2010-12-01). "RIM Sues App Maker Kik Over Patents". The Wall Street Journal. New York City. Retrieved 2016-02-12.
George-Cosh, David; MacMillan, Douglas. "Tencent Invests $50 Million in Messaging App Kik". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 2015-08-19.
Russolillo, Steven (2019-09-24). "Fighting SEC Over Cryptocurrency, Kik Shuts Chat App". WSJ. Retrieved 2019-09-25.
Vigna, Paul (29 August 2017). "Messaging-App Kik's Big Bet on a Digital Coin Offering". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 16 January 2018.
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zendesk.com

kikinteractive.zendesk.com

"How do I get the Kik app". Archived from the original on 2014-02-21. Retrieved 2014-02-10.
"Is Kik Free?". Archived from the original on 2014-11-08. Retrieved 2014-02-25.