The trend of emoji-chatting is already huge in Asia, where smartphone users are known to hold entire conversations using only the icons, or larger digital stickers which sometimes have a price tag.

Google is updating its old gum-drop shaped emoji on Android in favor of a more universal set of pictograms that will make it that much easier to say "winking tongue out face" than ever before.

The plan was to give emoji reactions such as “love” and “angry” five times the weight of a traditional “like” in Facebook’s secret formula, according to an internal company document.

More info. If you’re busy flashing the Android O beta to your Nexus or Pixel device, you’ll soon discover a revamped emoji library on your device. To sum up the changes, RIP to the blobs.

If you own an Android phone and don't already have the Emoji Kitchen installed, you're missing out. This feature of Gboard, the default keyboard that comes installed on Android phones, lets you ...

On World Emoji Day, we catch up with Aishwarya Lekshmi for an emoji-filled chat filled with faces, feels, and her favourite emojis — from what they mean to her to how they sum up her vibe ...