The messenger app Kik, a chat service catering to teens, debuted its Bot Shop on Monday. The shop lets Kik users download chatbots – automated apps meant to simulate real conversation. The shop ...

Need to book a flight? Soon you may just ask a bot on Kik to do it for you. The tech industry is abuzz with hype surrounding the chat bot. These personal assistant-like automated accounts live within ...

Pretty soon, any messaging app that doesn’t have a platform for bots will be seriously left behind. “Messengers are the new browsers and bots are the new websites,” as Kik‘s Mike Roberts puts it to me ...

Waterloo-based messaging app Kik has launched a “bot shop” that will function a bit like Apple’s App Store, only for chat bots. The Kik bot shop with exist as a special section in Kik’s app. There, ...

Kik, the instant messenger app for mobile devices, announced the Bot Shop from where users can download a bot directly to the messenger. Bots are like smart apps that users can talk to. The bots can ...

Kik is joining the mobile messaging revolution with a new marketplace featuring bots that are “entertaining, playful, and useful.” The company has launched with 16 different bots, including those from ...