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More coverage from Betakit of our acquisition today.

New York based startup Hugging Face, backed by SV Angel (Snapchat) Betaworks (Giphy, Medium, Tumblr,...) and prominent angel investors like Kevin Durant, is announcing today that they have acquired Sam:), founded by Toronto-based Jonathan Keebler & Matt McCausland.

More great coverage of Sam:) in the Financial Post.

We're in the news again with our latest product, Chatty McChatface on Kik.

I thought we would share a look at the growth of Sam:) -- the app that brings you random, anonymous, one-on-one chat for no damn reason -- through the month of October. Here is a graph of our new users each week, broken out by what app platform they are using. We just launched our iPhone app a couple weeks ago, so it hasn't had a chance to ramp up yet, but you can see that SMS remains our strongest acquisition channel.

Excited to launch my latest product, Sam:), at TechTo this week! Thanks to BetaKit for their awesome coverage

Great to see ScribbleLive complete a $35 million Series D.

Thanks so much to University of Toronto Magazine for doing a story about me. I was at UofT from 2000-2003 and it gave me a great foundation for everything that came after.

Scribble Technologies Inc., makers of ScribbleLive, is named one of Canada’s fastest growing technology companies in the Deloitte Technology Fast 50™ awards for technological innovation, entrepreneurship, rapid growth and leadership, based on the percentage of revenue growth over five years. Scribble ranked 9th with 5857% in five year revenue growth from

I had a great time presenting at the Amazon Webservices conference in Las Vegas. Thanks to everyone for the fantastic questions. Here's a copy of my slides.