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Yik Yak, Big in Schools, Is a Hit With Investors Too

Yik Yak, the controversial anonymous-messaging app that has spread rapidly across college campuses, is proof that it can take as little as a year these days to go from zero to a valuation of hundreds of millions of dollars.

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Yik Yak's anonymous chat app is shutting down

Yik Yak is turning out the lights on its anonymous messaging app after four years.

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Yik Yak fires 30 of 50 employees, still has no business model

CEO still calls app a “special place for college students around the world.”

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Membo Is The Yik Yak For Trendy Local Discovery

A lot of local discovery apps are great at telling you what’s been popular in an area for years, but they aren’t so great at helping you find the cool speakeasy that opened up last Tuesday.

Membo is a bit of a fusion between neighborhood social networking apps like Nextdoor and local discussion apps like Yik Yak.

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