Kik App Won't Shut Down After Acquisition By Medialab

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Sat, 10/19/2019 - 6:03pm

Kik was about to shut down, as it announced earlier, but it has now been bought by a holding company, MediaLab, which owns another anonymous messaging app called Whisper.

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