Yik Yak, the location-based social media app, is going dark. Co-founders Tyler Droll and Brooks Buffington announced in a blog post published Friday that Yik Yak would start winding down its operations over the coming week. “The time has come, however, for our paths to part ways, as we’ve decided to make our next move as a company,” the post reads. The social media app enables users (known as “Yakkers”) within an eight-kilometre radius to post messages and interact with each other online. The Atlanta-based social media app made the announcement shortly after Square Inc, a San Francisco-based financial services company, reportedly acquired Yik Yak’s engineering team, consisting of five to 10 engineers.

Source: thestar April 29, 2017 00:33 UTC