"The whole world is waking up to the fact that in mobile, mobile's all about communication and the primary way we communicate these days is texting. On Thursday, the company celebrated crossing the 50 million users mark, an accomplishment made more impressive considering that BlackBerry's BBM is now within striking distance, in the neighbourhood of 60 million.īut the Waterloo, Ont.-based Kik still finds itself the underdog, now looking up to industry juggernaut WhatsApp, which doesn't disclose user numbers but is estimated to have many more.īut that doesn't phase 26-year-old founder Ted Livingston, who is happy to still be a major player in the mobile chat space. TORONTO - When Canadian mobile chat upstart Kik Messenger first took the tech world by storm back in the fall of 2010, it was happy to have two million users compared to the 28 million that were loyal to BlackBerry Messenger.
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