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| 07.03.2024 | Anonymous social apps face another reckoning as UNC System to ban Yik Yik, Fizz, Sidechat & Whisper | Anonymous social apps are in for a reckoning. Yes, again. This week, University of North Carolina (UNC) System President Peter Hans announced a plan to block the use of popular anonymous social apps on campus, including Yik Yak, Fizz, Whisp... |
| 03.04.2023 | Yik Yak users are protesting the app’s makeover after acquisition by Sidechat | Yik Yak users are enraged over the changes being made to the anonymous social app after its quiet acquisition by the similarly focused campus chat app, Sidechat. While Yik Yak had focused on anonymous posting within a local community, Sidec... |
| 16.03.2023 | Anonymous app Sidechat picks up rival Yik Yak…and users aren’t happy | Sidechat, the anonymous posting platform that began blowing up last year on college campuses, appears to have acquired a rival anonymous social platform, Yik Yak. While you may recall Yik Yak’s troubles from earlier years, where bullying an... |
| 31.01.2023 | Blind After 4 Years by Alexander Gornyi | The post was originally published in Russian on Startup of the Day. Alexander kindly agreed to republish what we think is of great value to our readers.
Anonymous conversation apps get launched regularly get shut down just as regularly. Th... |
| 16.08.2021 | Yik Yak Social Media App Returns After 4 Year Hiatus, But What Exactly Is It? | Isaiah Richard, Tech Times 16 August 2021, 10:08 pm
Yik Yak has returned after a four-year hiatus and the social media app is back better than ever, giving people a chance to pick up its experiences since 2017. Social media applications hav... |
| 16.08.2021 | Yik Yak returns from the dead | After meeting an ignominious end in 2017, the anonymous gossip app once popular with college students lives again. Yik Yak returned to the iOS App Store on Monday (sorry, Android users) under new ownership, inspiring a fresh round of intere... |
| 01.05.2017 | Term Sheet — Monday, May 1 | STARWOOD-IFICATION OF REAL ESTATE
Increasingly, venture investors view real estate as the next industry to be transformed by disruptive technology. But as they start investing in the category, they might find that traditional real estate in... |
| 29.04.2017 | Yik Yak Officially Calls It Quits | The leaders of Yik Yak, a messaging app briefly in vogue on college campuses, have announced that the app will shut down over the course of the next week. The announcement comes after efforts at a sale first reported by Fortune’s Erin Griff... |
| 28.04.2017 | Yik Yak is finally relegated to the dustbin of Internet history | Enlarge / Tyler Droll, CEO of Yik Yak (L) and Brooks Buffington, COO, of Yik Yak, won the Fastest Rising Startup award at the TechCrunch 8th Annual Crunchies Awards at the Davies Symphony Hall on February 5, 2015 in San Francisco, Californi... |
| 28.04.2017 | Yik Yak shuts down after Square paid $1 million for its engineers | Yik Yak co-founders Tyler Droll and Brooks Buffington published a farewell note to users on Friday, announcing they would shut down their once-popular anonymous social network this week. The app allowed people to connect with other users wi... |
| 25.04.2017 | Square hires Yik Yak’s engineers, leaving fewer than 10 employees behind | Enlarge
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| 11.12.2016 | Once-Hot Yik Yak Lays Off 60% of Employees | The Verge reports that Yik Yak, an anonymous messaging app that swept college campuses in 2014 and 2015, has laid off about 50 workers, leaving only about 20. Yik Yak told The Verge the layoffs amounted to 60% of staff.
Layoffs were reporte... |
| 10.12.2016 | Anonymous messaging app Yik Yak lays off 60% of employees | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
The Verge reports that Yik Yak, an anonymous messaging app that swept college campuses in 2014 and 2015, has laid off about 50 workers,... |
| 10.12.2016 | Yik Yak fires 30 of 50 employees, still has no business model | Enlarge
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| 10.12.2016 | Anonymous messaging app Yik Yak lays off 60% of employees | The Verge reports that Yik Yak, an anonymous messaging app that swept college campuses in 2014 and 2015, has laid off about 50 workers, leaving only about 20. Yik Yak told The Verge the layoffs amounted to 60% of staff.
Layoffs were reporte... |
| 08.12.2016 | Fading anonymous social network Yik Yak is laying off most of its employees | Yik Yak, the once universally recognized anonymous social network that virally took over college campuses back in 2014, is planning to lay off a “significant” number of employees, first noted by The Verge. The company is said to be retainin... |
| 20.10.2016 | Why we’re building an app that aims to more deeply connect you with your city | Twenty years ago, the proliferation of the internet created vast amounts of wealth for those who embraced it (and OK, some of them lost a lot of money, too), connected people to information that allowed them to change their lives and pretty... |
| 04.09.2016 | General Catalyst’s Niko Bonatsos on why timing and empathy are key to founder success | Jasper Kuria Contributor
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| 16.08.2016 | Yik Yak yearns to be local, not just anonymous | Anonymity has proven a dangerous path for startups like Secret, so Yik Yak is pushing a soft pivot towards connection with people close by. You can still share anonymous quips on the sagging college app, but now it’s forcing you to add a ha... |
| 25.04.2016 | Yik Yak tries to make a comeback with launch of private chat | Earlier this month, TechCrunch reported that Yik Yak would soon be introducing a new feature designed to help the floundering app boost its user retention numbers: private chat. Today, the company confirmed the feature is now going live, al... |
| 08.04.2016 | The South has something to say, and this time Atlanta hopes it’s with tech | If your city has developed a cultural export with a national reputation before, then your local entrepreneurship community ought to take some lessons.
In Chicago, founders speak of the Second City movement in comedy, a pipeline that has rec... |
| 07.04.2016 | With money to invest, General Catalyst promotes four, including Niko Bonatsos | General Catalyst Partners has promoted four people on its team. The announcements come just weeks after the venture firm, which has offices in Cambridge, Ma.; New York; and Palo Alto, closed on $845 million in new capital commitments from i... |
| 06.04.2016 | Yik Yak’s CTO drops out as the hyped anonymous app stagnates | Is Yik Yak a thing anymore? Not so much, according to download stats, traffic charts, surveys and a source that says the college app’s monthly user count has been declining. That source — with intimate knowledge of the company — also tipped... |
| 17.03.2016 | Mobli launches Galaxia, a social network that encourages users to create numerous personas | Most social media platforms deter users from creating multiple profiles to prevent shenanigans like harassment and fraud. Galaxia, however, wants people to create a new profile (which it calls a “persona”) for each facet of their identity. ... |
| 10.03.2016 | Yik Yak’s “handles” are just lipstick on an ugly, anonymous yak | If you update the Yik Yak app as of this week, you're greeted with this demand now. Does that fix anything? Well... reader comments 22 with 21 posters participating
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| 09.03.2016 | Yik Yak Gives Users Option To Use 'Handle' And Not To Be Totally Anonymous | Dave Calpito, Tech Times 09 March 2016, 09:03 am
Yik Yak, a renowned anonymous social network app particularly on universities, is stepping away from anonymity. Yik Yak has introduced Handles, which Yakkers can optionally attach their yaks ... |
| 21.01.2016 | Yik Yak Launches Its Own Web Client: Here’s How To Use It | Vincent Lanaria, Tech Times 21 January 2016, 06:01 am
Yik Yak is all set to release a Web version of the popular location-based social network app that swept up college students by their feet. It's now going beyond the Android and iOS platf... |
| 20.01.2016 | Yik Yak Launches On The Web | Yik Yak, the anonymous, location-based social network that has taken college campuses by storm, has today launched a web client.
The company has been working on the web version of the app for the past few months in a closed beta, and is now... |
| 16.03.2015 | Yik Yak Founders Defend Themselves Against Criticism Over Cyberbullying | Yik Yak co-founders Tyler Droll and Brooks Buffington took the stage today at South by Southwest, where they addressed what they described as the biggest misconceptions about their anonymous, location-based chat app.
As Yik Yak’s popularity... |
| 26.11.2014 | Yik Yak Reportedly Raises $62M | Yik Yak, an Atlanta, GA-based anonymous messaging app, reportedly raised $62m in third funding round this year.
According to the WSJ (read here), the round was led by Sequoia Capital with current investors expected to participate.
The compa... |
| 24.11.2014 | Yik Yak raises another $62 million in funding! | The company has raised over $73 million this year, and is now valued in the hundreds of millions
You can blame is on WhatsApp: ever since that gigantic deal was announced, venture capitalists have been head over heals for mobile messaging. ... |
| 23.11.2014 | Note to self: Brace for more bubble talk as secret messaging app Yik Yak raises $62 million | Some things are all too easy to predict.
Every day, the sun rises and you wake up. And every time some app most of the world has never heard about raises what seems like an insane amount of money, the hand-wringing begins and thousands of b... |
| 30.06.2014 | Yik Yak Secures $10M in Funding | Yik Yak, an Atlanta, GA-based social messaging app for private, localized engagement, secured $10m in funding.
The round was led by DCM with participation from Azure Capital Partners, Renren Inc. (NYSE: RENN), a social networking company in... |
| 30.06.2014 | Anonymous messaging app Yik Yak grabs $10M to be the 'Twitter of your college campus' | Anonymous messaging apps cause gossip, drama, and even media deals — and they apparently also still catch investors’ attention.
After Secret raised $8.6 million in March, and Whisper raised a massive $36 million in May, anonymous messaging ... |
| 22.04.2014 | Yik Yak Raises $1.5M in Funding | Yik Yak, an Atlanta, GA-based social messaging app for hyper-local engagement, raised $1.5m in funding.
Backers included Vaizra Investments, DCM and Azure Capital Partners and other angels.
The company intends to use the funds to enhance cu... |
| 22.04.2014 | After Cyberbullying Scandal, Anonymous Social App Yik Yak Raises $1.5 Million | Anonymous social networking apps are having a moment. Following the notable funding rounds for apps like Secret ($8.6 million) and Whisper ($21 million!), newcomer Yik Yak is today announcing a small amount of outside investment, too. In it... |
