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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

The messaging app Kik is one step ahead of you, Facebook. Kik announced on Tuesday that it has officially opened up a shop for third-party developers to be able to create bots that can be used in the ...