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 ...

is a Senior Producer on Decoder. Previously, he reported on the technology and gaming industries for more than a decade. Today, messaging app Kik announced a new bot store to urge users and developers ...

Facebook's debut of a bot store is already being heralded as the "most important launch since the App Store." Except that it hasn't happened yet. Kik, a messaging app favored by teens, beat Facebook ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

And indeed it has, with Kmart offering a bot shopping experience on Facebook Messenger. It’s available through “Kmart Buddy”. Open it in Messenger, and it fires up with: “I’m Kmart buddy, your ...