Texting a Starbucks Gift Card is About to be as Easy as Sending an Emoji Starbucks is rolling out iMessage gift cards in April. By Danielle Tullo Published: Mar 24, 2017 3:34 PM EDT ...

Brighten someone's day with an emoji gift that escapes the phone and adds a little fun to their life. Tech Science Life Social Good Entertainment Deals Shopping Games. Search. Cancel.

Venmo, an app that, like other peer-to-peer payment products, is linked to users’ bank cards, ... That’s up from one million gift emoji payments in 2016 and 300,000 in 2015.

Emoji has been around since 1999, but these winky faces and seemingly random characters have only fairly recently caught on. ... Stop using this to convey a gift card. It's a bookmark.