For Kavin Mittal it´s the start of new hike to an emoji-led HikeLand
(World News Science)

How do you pivot a company with a billion dollar plus valuation and a 50 million user base? Well, ask Kavin Bharti Mittal, who has for the past year been trying to turn around Hike, the Indian messaging platform he built up since 2012. Now, well over a year after he wound up Hike Messenger and moved users to the AI-powered Hike Sticker chat, Mittal has announced the launch of HikeMojis, what he calls `India´s first hyper-local and personalised avatar`. But for Mittal HikeMojis are not just emojis based on the user´s persona, it is the first building block in something larger he´s set out to create. `We said we have to do something bigger and better, and in 2020, with all the technology that...