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 ...

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 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 ...

The Bot Shop, where users of the chat app Kik go to get featured bots, recently surpassed 110 bots, the chat app announced today. And you wouldn’t know it by visiting the Bot Shop, but more than ...

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 ...

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 ...

H&M, Sephora and Weather Channel are among a number of brands now appearing in messaging application Kik's new Bot Shop marketplace, potentially driving discovery and use as chatbots gain steam. Kik ...