![]() We believe these are complementary to our service," he explained. "We don't consider Facebook, Twitter or any of these as our competition. Quite the opposite, according to Mendiola. "We enabled Filipinos to connect to an online IM (instant messenger) community via texting which was second nature to us," he said.Ĭhikka came at a time when the Internet is only used for surfing and downloading, and when one has to pay P1 for every text message, even more to make a phone call.īut with new technologies today such as social networking sites, smartphone services and unlimited call and text promos, is Chikka now a thing of the past? To date, he said Chikka has served over 68 million people who had registered online and via their mobile phones. The text messenger service, named after the Filipino term for "small talk," became a hit with Filipinos across the globe, said Mendiola, who is also Chikka's "chief imagination officer." MANILA, Philippines - In 2000, Dennis Mendiola thought of creating "Chikka" in an effort to let SMS-loving Filipinos send text messages from their computers for free.
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