Kik Interactive Inc. has acquired Toronto fashion app Blynk and its four-person team, the messaging company is expected to announce as early as Monday. It's only the third acquisition made by the ...

Last time, I talked about how my storage situation and my cheap nature led me to build an RC joystick controller with a cell phone app and an ESP8266. The key to making this easy was to use the GUI ...

Kik, a Canadian mobile messaging app that has made it clear that is seeks to emulate WeChat, is entering a new category: fashion, through the acquisition of fashion advice bot Blynk, it was announced ...

Makers, developers and hobbyists that enjoy the building projects using the Arduino platform, Raspberry Pi or similar but sometimes find it difficult to connect the development boards to an Android or ...

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App development is not fun for everyone, and sometimes you just want to control a device from your phone with minimal work. Blynk appears to be a fairly put-together library for not only hooking up ...

Our nation of Canadian entrepreneurs and investors are consistently vowing to improve, and find more ways to get early-stage money into the hands of entrepreneurs. We’re always trying to fund and ...

For many people who like to build things that use Arduino to operate one of the most difficult parts is making an app or software to control the project. A new program called Blynk has turned up ...

According to Shums Kassam, a U of T engineering degree equips its students with many valuable things, but a solid fashion sense isn’t one of them. “I wasn’t really into fashion, but after getting ...

A Toronto-based start-up company launched a style application for smart phones this week that resembles Tinder’s interface. The app draws from a database of outfits (compiled by fashion bloggers) that ...