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Kik Messenger is a free instant messaging application for mobile devices from Kik Interactive, available on iOS, Android, and Windows Phone operating systems. Kik Messenger is modeled after BlackBerry Messenger. It uses a smartphone's data plan or Wi-Fi to transmit and receive messages, photos, videos, sketches, mobile webpages, and other content after users register a username. == History == Founded in 2009, Kik Interactive is the work of a group of students from the University of Waterloo who wished to create new technologies to be used on mobile smartphones. Kik Messenger is the first app developed by Kik. Kik Interactive released Kik Messenger on October 19, 2010. Within 15 days, Kik Messenger reached one million user registrations, with Twitter being credited as a catalyst for the new application's popularity. On November 24, 2010, Research In Motion removed Kik Messenger from BlackBerry App World and limited the functionality of the software for its users. It also sued the company for copyright infringement. In October 2013, Blackberry and Kik settled the lawsuit, with the terms undisclosed. On October 1, 2014, Kik, Sony Records and IPG Media Lab were given a Smarties award by the Mobile Marketing Association for their global music marketing campaign with One Direction. In November 2014, Kik announced a $38.3 million Series C funding round and its first acquisition, buying GIF Messenger "Relay". The funding is from Valiant Capital Partners, Millennium Technology Value Partners, and SV Angel. Kik has raised a total of $70.5 million to date.〔Russell, Jon November 19, 2014 TechCrunch. ("Chat App Kik Raises $38M And Makes Its First Acquisition, Buying GIF Messenger Relay" )〕 There are rumors that Kik will be available on PC but it has not been officially released.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Kik Messenger is not available for PC )〕 Though, by using an Android Emulator, Kik Messenger is accessible on PC.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Kik Messenger is now available on PC )〕 In January 2015, Kik reached 200 million registered users.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://blog.kik.com/200million/ )〕 In March 2015, Kik announced that it would begin using Microsoft's PhotoDNA Cloud Service to automatically detect and report the distribution of child exploitation images. The proposed child exploitation tool will only remove and scan for known child pornography that exists in an international database. The new tools will not be able to screen messages from pedophiles who may be engaging in child grooming. In addition, Kik announced that the company joined the Virtual Global Taskforce, a partnership between businesses, child protection agencies, and international police services to combat online child abuse.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=For fast-growing chat apps like Waterloo's Kik, child exploitation a pervasive threat )〕 Kik also uses a feature that blurs messages from strangers so that users must opt in to view content sent by people outside their network. If they determine content or users are objectionable, they can delete or block those users.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Kik Messenger's smart new safety features )〕 In April 2015, Kik introduced a full-screen in-chat browser that allows users to find and share content from the web.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Kik Introduces An In-Chat Browser For Its Mobile Messaging App )〕 In June 2015, Kik introduced another feature in which you can now send previously recorded videos in Kik Messenger for Android and iOS.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=send previously recorded videos in Kik Messenger )〕 August 16, 2015 - Kik receives $50 million investment from Chinese Internet giant Tencent, earning the company a billion dollar valuation. CEO Ted Livingston stated the investment was "purely financial" in nature.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kik Messenger」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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