For years, WhatsApp was seen primarily as a mobile-first communication platform—a simple chat app designed for smartphones, ...

Messages for web is undergoing an important backend change, particularly for users on Google Fi. Instead of relying on older ...

Tumblr today has launched a feature that its user base has wanted for some time: messaging. The blogging platform has long offered an inbox feature and way for its users to ask each other questions, ...

Snapchat’s messaging and video chat features are no longer limited to just the mobile app. More than a decade after the Snapchat app first launched, company is introducing Snapchat for Web, a new ...

Google is announcing today that it’s introducing web support for Firebase Cloud Messaging, a service that lets developers send push notifications for their applications to end users’ devices. This ...

Instagram will finally let you chat from your web browser, but the launch contradicts Facebook’s plan for end-to-end encryption in all its messaging apps. Today Instagram began testing Direct Messages ...

Like so many other Android users, I rely on Messages for Android — Google's text messaging application — every day. It's my main means of communication with the people I care about most. So I was ...

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 28 /PRNewswire/ --The first industry best practices to help Web messaging and social networking operators protect users of their Web mail, direct messaging and SMS services from ...

Zimbra's Web e-mail and calendar next year will get integrated instant messaging and a beefed-up offline client. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and cutting-edge technologies.

Job-based social network LinkedIn began rolling out a redesigned messaging service on Tuesday, incorporating the look and features of popular chat apps like Facebook Messenger. Instagram, meanwhile, ...