As Korea gave birth to Kakaotalk, Japan to Line, and China to WeChat, an Indian startup is looking to have its own group messaging smash hit with the new Hike app. For the moment, Hike is Android-only ...

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Hike Shutdown: Hike, the messaging and gaming app that came to compete with WhatsApp 13 years ago, made a lot of headlines, but now this app is going to be shut down forever. The app's founder, Kavin ...

Kavin Bharti Mittal launched Hike in 2012 as a made-in-India messenger app to take on the likes of WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger. Slack has announced it will hike pricing for its Pro subscription ...

India’s answer to WhatsApp has completely moved on from messaging. Hike Messenger, backed by Tencent, Tiger Global and SoftBank and valued at $1.4 billion in 2016, earlier this month announced that it ...

Hike was once seen as India’s big hope in the world of messaging apps. Launched in 2012, it quickly became popular among young users with fun stickers, private chats, offline SMS, and even news ...