Kik Aims to Integrate the Internet Experience Into a Single Mobile App

Kik provides users with an all-inclusive environment so they don't have to go elsewhere to access the Internet.

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Kik instant messenger has been on a roll for the last few years. In April of 2012, the app reached 10 million users and topped the free social app charts the next month. In November of 2013, the service had reached 100 million users, and now it’s the first social app to have a built-in web browser. Given this massive growth, the service is interested in becoming the Twitter of messaging apps.

The Kik mission statement is very telling for the direction of the company: “Kik was founded in 2009, when a small but incredibly passionate group of University of Waterloo students decided to build a company that would shift the center of computing from the PC to the phone.”

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