"Mobile messaging firm Kik is upping its focus on music after launching a new service to connect fans of top artists and bands via its popular chat app. Named Jam, it is designed to help Kik’s 200 million registered users “meet new friends based on similar music interests.” Initially in beta and limited a few hundred thousands users, Jam — which is built on Kik’s HTML5 content platform — showcases a range of top names in music. Clicking through on each profile loads photos, bios and YouTube-powered videos, while there are options to buy gig tickets and merchandising via BandPage. The real aim isn’t to showcase content, though; it’s to create chat rooms for music lovers, and Kik users can check into an artist/band’s chat room via their profile page can find friends to chat one-on-one via the page."
In the flowing for generalization into The World Video Game Hall of Fame, the Strong National Museum of Play has declared several finalists.
This past year something interesting happened in China. Mobile services began sprouting up without mobile apps or websites. Instead these companies — some of which even raised money without a mobile app or website — went straight to WeChat, China’s top messaging app, where they tapped into hundreds of millions of active users across Android and iOS.
TechSpot: Kik Interactive Inc., the Canadian company behind the popular Kik messaging app, announced on Tuesday that it had secured a $50 million investment from China’s Tencent Holdings Ltd, one of the largest internet firms in the world and WeChat's parent company.
