Kik Messaging App Shutting Down Date. Kik Interactive CEO Ted Livingston announced today that the company is shutting down Kik Messenger to focus on its cryptocurrency Kin, the target of a lawsuit filed by the Securities and Exchange. Kik has announced it 'is here to stay' just weeks after news flooded the web that it would shut down its messaging service and resurface as 'Kin' - and noted that it has exciting plans for the app. At its peak, Kik's messaging app had hundreds of millions of registered users and the company earned a private market valuation of $1 billion, placing it in the elite ranks of tech unicorns. Now.
On Sept. 24, 2019, a number of news outlets reported that the messaging app Kik would be shutting down. According to the BBC: Kik Messenger is shutting down despite the service having millions of. 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.
The instant messaging app Kik shut down once and for all over the weekend, leaving some users in mourning. The app ended its services on Friday, Sept. 27 amid a massive lawsuit with the SEC, giving little notice ahead of time.
On Sept. 24, 2019, a number of news outlets reported that the messaging app Kik would be shutting down. According to the BBC: Kik Messenger is shutting down despite the service having millions of. Kik Interactive, the Ontario-based startup behind popular mobile messaging app Kik, is considering shutting down the app, according to a report by local media outlet Calcalist.. Citing anonymous. The popular mobile instant messaging app, Kik Messenger, is officially shutting down after nearly 9 years of being in service. The news is shocking to the 300 million+ people throughout the world who use the app. They love the fact that the app is free because they can send text messages without exhausting their SMS text limit. Kik has announced it 'is here to stay' just weeks after news flooded the web that it would shut down its messaging service and resurface as 'Kin' - and noted that it has exciting plans for the app.
