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MediaLab acquires messaging app Kik, expanding its app portfolio

TechCrunch LA

Popular messaging app Kik is, indeed, “here to stay” following an acquisition by the Los Angeles-based multimedia holding company, MediaLab. In a post on Kik’s blog on Friday the MediaLab said that it has “finalized an agreement” to acquire Kik Messenger. Securities and Exchange Commission. .”

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Xconomy’s Top Innovation Stories of the Half Year

Xconomy

No PhD, “No Fear”: Alice Zhang, 27, Aims Software at Neuro Diseases. Layoffs Reflect New Turbulence at High-Flying 3D Robotics. Jeff Engel maps out New England’s cluster of cybersecurity companies—one of the region’s strengths (and a rich source of acquisition targets).

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Biotech Roundup: Moonshots, Pink Slips, Gilead, Brexit & More

Xconomy

—Boston’s PureTech Health, which conceives and launches life science companies, unveiled Sonde Health , which is developing software that listens for warning signs of depression in people’s speech patterns. Analysts wondered if the Tesaro news would push Medivation’s acquisition price higher.