With the end of the year rapidly approaching, the most iconic awards season is upon us… And no, it’s not the Emmys or the ...

The news broke in mid-August, right before students were due to return to campus. Exhausted from 18 grueling months of steering their institutions through the pandemic, this was the last thing wary ...

Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, is considering banning Yik Yak. The anonymous mobile messaging app — whose headquarters lie just up Interstate 85 in Atlanta's Buckhead neighborhood — has been a ...

T he social-media app Yik Yak, where users can post anonymous messages visible to anyone within a five-mile radius, returned on Monday after a four-year hiatus. And for some colleges, it was not ...

During the fall of 2014, Yik Yak was riding high in the App Store. Thanks to how the anonymous social network spread like wildfire across college campuses and high schools, $60 million in venture ...

Yik Yak, an anonymous location-based social media app, has gained traction as a fast rising startup. But with that success has come criticism. Yik Yak has come under fire as critics claim the ...

The creators of the controversial smartphone app Yik Yak are back with a spinoff called Hive, without the anonymity that helped make its predecessor infamous. Two years ago, Yik Yak was surging in ...

Yik Yak is home to gossip and commiseration about professors and Greek life, but soon it will also feature an official stream of news on the University of Florida campus. The university is using a Yik ...

Tyler Bednar was a frequent user of Yik Yak. Until he got name-dropped. Bednar, a freshman studying sports journalism, had just gotten back to his dorm room in Taylor Place when his friends sent a ...

Last March, an app called Yik Yak took over Elizabeth Long's high school, Woodward Academy, in Atlanta. Students learned about it during first period. By lunchtime, the school made an announcement: ...

Casey Newton is a contributing editor who has been writing about tech for over 10 years. He founded Platformer, a newsletter about Big Tech and democracy. In March, the college-centric social network ...

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 ...