WhatsApp is working on a feature to share emoji reactions during calls, enhancing user expression with a broader emoji selection.

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Does Gmail want to be an instant messaging client? Last month the popular webmail app shipped an emoji reactions bar in the mobile app, where a single tap would send a new email with your emoji ...

Instant messaging is still a great communications tool with immediacy and a modicum of intimacy. But no one has challenged AOL with a great application, and that is a shame.

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Jack Dorsey, most famous for co-founding Twitter (now X) all the way back in 2006, is cooking up a different way to connect ...

One of the internet's oldest instant messaging services, ICQ, is closing down. Credit: Costfoto/NurPhoto via Getty Images One of the oldest, still-running online platforms is finally closing its ...