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==== KIK ==== On November 24, 2010, [[Research In Motion]] (RIM) removed [[Kik Messenger]] from BlackBerry App World and limited the functionality of the software for its users.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://benefice-net.branchez-vous.com/actubn/2010/11/rim-blackberry-messenger-kik-application-mobile-concurrence.html |title=RIM bloque une application concurrente A son service BlackBerry Messenger |date=24 November 2010 |language=fr |website=Benefice.net |access-date=December 17, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101127152006/http://benefice-net.branchez-vous.com/actubn/2010/11/rim-blackberry-messenger-kik-application-mobile-concurrence.html |archive-date=November 27, 2010}}</ref> RIM also sued Kik Interactive for [[patent infringement]] and misuse of [[trademark]]s.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Weinberg |first1=Stuart |title=RIM Sues App Maker Kik Over Patents |date=2010-12-01 |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748704594804575648932379804088 |newspaper=[[The Wall Street Journal]] |location=[[New York City]] |access-date=2016-02-12}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Silcoff |first1=Sean |last2=McNish |first2=Jacquie |last3=Ladurantaye |first3=Steve |title=Inside the fall of BlackBerry: How the smartphone inventor failed to adapt |date=September 27, 2013 |url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/the-inside-story-of-why-blackberry-is-failing/article14563602/?page=all |newspaper=The Globe and Mail |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130930181216/http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/the-inside-story-of-why-blackberry-is-failing/article14563602/?page=all |archive-date=September 30, 2013 |access-date=October 12, 2019 |url-status=live}}</ref> In October 2013, the companies settled the lawsuit, with the terms undisclosed.<ref name="Lawsuit">{{cite news |last=Simone |first=Rose |title=Kik eager to move on after settling spat with BlackBerry |date=October 9, 2013 |url=http://www.therecord.com/news-story/4146815-kik-eager-to-move-on-after-settling-spat-with-blackberry/ |newspaper=[[Waterloo Region Record]] |access-date=August 8, 2014}}</ref>
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