Indian Teens Flirt in Private as Hike App Tops 35 Million Users
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Seventeen-year-old Pranav Sahni’s father doesn’t know he has a girlfriend.
That’s because the teenager, who lives in the northern Indian town of Nainital, uses a chat application called Hike on his Moto G smartphone that lets him hide messages. The app was developed through a venture between SoftBank Corp. and New Delhi-based Bharti Enterprises Pvt and competes with Line Corp.’s messaging service and Tencent Holdings Ltd.’s WeChat.