Tencent-backed Hike, once India’s answer to WhatsApp and valued at $1.4B in 2016, says it is shutting down its messaging app Sticker Chat (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)

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Tencent-backed Hike, as soon as India’s reply to WhatsApp and valued at $1.4B in 2016, says it’s shutting down its messaging app Sticker Chat — India’s reply to WhatsApp has utterly moved on from messaging. — Hike Messenger, backed by Tencent, Tiger World and SoftBank and valued …