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The investment values Kik at $ 1 billion .

这笔投资使Kik的估值达到了10亿美元。

Now Kik has secured an investment from WeChat 's parent company .

现在，Kik获得了微信母公司的投资。

Kik also weighed other options , including a sale of itself , but it favored an investment .

Kik也对其他选择进行了权衡，其中包括出售，但最终它更倾向于融资。

He is looking forward to bouncing ideas off Tencent as he develops more services for Kik .

他期待在为Kik开发更多服务时与腾讯方面探讨想法。

Kik has 200 million registered users .

Kik拥有2亿注册用户。

Kik 's interface is cluttered and confusing , like a teenager 's bedroom .

另外，Kik的用户界面混乱不堪，就如同青少年的卧室。

With the new money , Kik will focus on growing and adding new offerings for its app , Mr. Livingston said .

利文斯顿表示，新资金到位后，将主要用于为app开发新功能，这也将有助于公司增加营收。

Kik , though , doesn 't offer easy access to basic video and audio messaging that my family loved in WhatsApp .

我们全家都非常青睐WhatsApp上轻松收发视频及语音信息的基本功能，但Kik并不具备这一功能。

And for all the fun I had using Kik with friends and colleagues , my parents couldn 't have been less interested .

并且，我和朋友、同事在使用Kik时所得到的那种乐趣对我父母没有产生丝毫吸引力。

Within a messaging app like Kik , users could buy a packet of stickers for Disney 's Frozen for $ 1.99 , for example .

比如，在Kik这样的短信应用中，用户可以花1.99美元买一包迪斯尼电影《冰雪奇缘》的贴纸。

Getting users early on means that they will be more comfortable using a service like Kik as a way to not only send messages , but also use add-on services .

吸引年轻用户意味着，他们更有可能不仅将Kik这样的app用来发信息，还乐于使用它提供的各种附加服务。

Among those messaging apps , Kik has been the most vocal about becoming the kind of Internet hub that WeChat has evolved into in China .

在所有这些通讯app中，Kik最为积极地表示，想要成为微信在中国所演变成的那种互联网枢纽的角色。

While the app doesn 't pack as many tricks as Kik , it puts a good chunk of them into a tidier control panel .

尽管Viber并没有附带Kik那么多的花样儿，但是它把不少有趣的功能都设置在了一个更为简洁的操作界面中。

Ted Livingston , chief executive of Ontario-based Kik , said Tencent was always at the top of its wish list of potential partners .

Kik总部位于安大略，其首席执行官特德利文斯顿（TedLivingston）称，腾讯一直排在Kik潜在合作伙伴愿望清单的第一位。

Kik offers a feature that some are calling " chatvertising , " where users hold conversations with chat-bots powered by brands like Funny or Die and Moviefone .

Kik则提供一种被一些人称为“聊天广告”的功能，用户通过它能和幽默网站FunnyorDie及电影信息网站Moviefone这类品牌运营的聊天程序进行交谈。

Executives from companies like Facebook and smaller rivals like Kik are trying to replicate what has emerged in China : dominant online platforms where users will spend much of their time .

Facebook等公司的高管以及Kik等规模较小的竞争对手，正努力复制已经在中国出现的东西：占据绝对优势的在线平台，用户会花很多时间待在这些平台上。

Kik now claims that 40 percent of American teenagers use its app , and that 70 percent of its 240 million registered users are between 13 and 24 years old .

Kik表示，现在有40%的美国年轻人使用其app，而且在全部2.4亿名注册用户中，有70%是13岁至24岁的年轻人。

More than 40 per cent of young Americans , aged 13 to 25 , use Kik , the company says , and spend an average of 97 minutes a week in the app .

该公司表示，40%以上的美国年轻人（13至25岁年龄段）使用Kik，平均每人每周在这款应用上花费97分钟。

Kik raised funds from venture capitalists including Union Square Ventures , which backed Twitter , and SV Angel , an investor in many social apps including Pinterest , last November .

去年11月，Kik从包括合广投资（UnionSquareVentures）和SVAngel在内的风投机构获得了融资。合广投资曾投资Twitter，而SVAngel则是Pinterest等众多社交应用的投资方。

Some 70 per cent of Kik 's 240m registered users are aged between 13 and 24 , with the company estimating that about 40 per cent of US teens use Kik .

Kik拥有2.4亿注册用户，其中70%的人年龄在13至24岁之间，该公司估计美国约40%的青少年都使用Kik。

Huge in China , WeChat falls between Kik and WhatsApp , with a handy Web chat mode and a large selection of stickers & including animated ones from Pixar movies .

在中国极受追捧的微信介于Kik和WhatsApp之间，微信拥有便于使用的在线聊天模式，并且附带大量的贴图―其中包括皮克斯（Pixar）电影中的卡通贴图。

HONG KONG - Snapchat and Kik , the messaging services , use bar codes that look like drunken checkerboards to connect people and share information with a snap of their smartphone cameras .

香港——在通讯应用Snapchat和Kik里，人们用仿佛毫无章法的棋盘一样的条码建立联系，用智能手机拍照分享信息。

It also will help the company build revenue , which it has started collecting through initiatives like Kik Points , where users can garner rewards by visiting sites , taking surveys or joining services from partners .

通过之前推出的KikPoints，该公司已经开始有营收进账。在KikPoints系统里，用户可以通过访问网站、填写调查问卷或下载安装合作app而获得奖励。

I can feel an intangible love , happiness , and companionship , I believe , Haibara and Kik You with me , and I were heading for tomorrow , cherish every day .

我能感受到一种无形的爱，幸福，和陪伴，我相信，灰原和桔梗一直陪伴着我，和我一起走向明天，好好珍惜每一天。

The Chinese internet group , which owns WeChat , is betting that Kik could replicate its own success in developing chat apps into a platform that incorporates everything from ecommerce to banking in the US .

微信是腾讯的旗下产品，这家中国互联网集团正押注Kik能在美国复制微信的成功，把聊天应用发展为一个覆盖从电子商务到银行业务等众多领域的平台。

Kik , incredibly popular with teens because of the crazy multimedia features , allows you to search the Web for fun stuff such as GIFs and YouTube videos and drop them into your chat .

Kik在青少年中极其风靡，原因是它具有非常强大的多媒体功能，该应用程序允许用户在网络上搜索GIF和YouTube视频等有趣的内容并在聊天中进行分享。

SAN FRANCISCO - Kik has long aspired to become the Western world 's equivalent of WeChat , the hugely popular Chinese messaging app that lets users book taxis , send payments - and also talk with their friends .

旧金山——很长时间里，加拿大移动应用Kik一直渴望成为西方世界的微信，后者是一个在中国十分受欢迎的通讯app，用户可以用它预定出租车、付款，也可以和朋友聊天。

I set out on a journey with friends and family to test four services : WhatsApp , which gained fame for Facebook 's $ 19 billion acquisition of it , along with Kik , WeChat and Viber .

我发动我的朋友和家人对以下四种应用服务进行了测试：WhatsApp、Kik、微信（WeChat）和Viber，其中WhatsApp以Facebook对其斥资190亿美元的收购获得了外界的关注。

Though Kik and WeChat have known each other for some time , the investment grew out of a strategic review process that the Western app began in the spring with the help of Qatalyst Partners , the Silicon Valley boutique investment bank .

尽管Kik和微信相互了解已经有一段时间，但是这一融资决定是在Kik进行了战略评估之后做出的。该项评估是在硅谷精品投行QatalystPartners帮助下，从今年春天开始进行的。

Companies like Kik , Viber and Tango have sought to ride the wave of popularity that propelled WhatsApp to a $ 21.8 billion sale to Facebook and buoyed the valuation of Snapchat to $ 15 billion .

在最近一波互联网热潮中，WhatsApp以218亿美元价格被Facebook收购，Snapchat的估值被推高到150亿美元，Kik、Viber和Tango等公司也试图借机实现飞跃。