Acquisitions, Canadian Startup NewsFebruary 24, 2014<February 24, 2014 Are Kik and BlackBerry Smiling After Facebook’s WhatsApp Deal? by Joseph Czikk According to the Waterloo Region Record, Facebook’s recent $19 billion deal to acquire WhatsApp has created a favourable…
GrowthNovember 29, 2012<June 26, 2013 Instant Messaging App Kik Launches Kik Cards to Add Multimedia for 30M Users by Humayun Khan Despite the launch of iMessage by Apple in 2011 and an attempt by RIM to shut the service down over patent infringement, Kik…
ChangesFebruary 16, 2012<February 16, 2012 Messaging Startups React To Apple’s iMessage Announcement by Darrell Etherington The mobile messaging market has been crowded for a long time, with some of the tech industry’s true leviathans weighing…