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04-30-2017, 12:54 PM
It's the end of the line for Yik Yak
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Yik Yak has been on its last legs for a while, and **w the end is officially here.*
The a**nymous, location-based messaging app that rose to popularity in 2014 will "begin winding down" over the next week, Yik Yak co-founders Tyler Droll and Brooks Buffington wrote in a blog post (https://blog.yikyak.com/blog/thank-you-yakkers) Friday.
Square —*yup, the Jack Dorsey-led payments company — acquired (http://www.theverge.com/2017/4/28/15480052/yik-yak-shut-down-a**nymous-messaging-app-square) some of the Yik Yak engineering team for $1 million. Unsurprisingly, Square didn't want the app.*
Yik Yak was once valued at $400 million and raised $73.5 million (https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/yik-yak#/entity) in venture funding. Then, it was plagued by cyberbullying on its platform and a dropoff in interest among the college and high school students who used it.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/04/29/yik-yak-shuts-down/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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Yik Yak has been on its last legs for a while, and **w the end is officially here.*
The a**nymous, location-based messaging app that rose to popularity in 2014 will "begin winding down" over the next week, Yik Yak co-founders Tyler Droll and Brooks Buffington wrote in a blog post (https://blog.yikyak.com/blog/thank-you-yakkers) Friday.
Square —*yup, the Jack Dorsey-led payments company — acquired (http://www.theverge.com/2017/4/28/15480052/yik-yak-shut-down-a**nymous-messaging-app-square) some of the Yik Yak engineering team for $1 million. Unsurprisingly, Square didn't want the app.*
Yik Yak was once valued at $400 million and raised $73.5 million (https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/yik-yak#/entity) in venture funding. Then, it was plagued by cyberbullying on its platform and a dropoff in interest among the college and high school students who used it.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/04/29/yik-yak-shuts-down/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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