Predators on Kik pose a direct threat to the children of the very Maine voters Platner seeks to represent. It’s bad enough that Graham Platner, the presumptive Democratic Senate nominee in Maine, ...

HARTFORD, Conn. (WTNH) — The State of Connecticut has opened an investigation into online messaging app Kik, following reports of extreme sexual content and severe bullying, according to the state ...

U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn sent a formal letter to MediaLab CEO Michael Heyward on Friday, demanding answers about how the messaging app Kik protects minors from sexual exploitation. The letter ...

The messaging app Kik was on the verge of shutting down, but a holding company, MediaLab, bought it and will invest in its future, the company said. At its peak, Kik had hundreds of millions of ...

BlackBerry and messaging app maker Kik Interactive settled a patent infringement dispute, nearly three years after Kik was pulled from the device vendor’s app store. The struggling handset vendor sued ...

The funding came via Chinese digital economy player Tencent — owner of the tremendously popular WeChat app. Kik currently has 240 million registered users (there are no figures as to how many are ...

ATLANTA — Kik Messenger, a smartphone app popular among younger teens, is on the defensive following the stabbing death of a 13-year-old girl in Virginia who told friends she was using Kik to connect ...