In the span of a few years, emoji — the smiley faces, hearts, flags and other small pictures installed in most smartphone, email and chat programs — have become ubiquitous in digital ...

In a recent workplace survey, more than half of the employees polled said they have used an emoji to communicate at work. Here's a look at the pros and cons of using them in office communications.

Pick a screen, any screen, and chances are someone is deep in a text conversation. While phone calls are still around, ...

LOL! Generations at war over peach and winking emoji...and don't even think of using the aubergine. There are now 3,633 officially recognised emojis with ten billion sent each day ...

The more I see the emoji, the grumpier I get – the more that cartoon face morphs into a youthful Ronaldo. Because although the point of a wink is often to share a joke, I’m starting to feel ...

In defence of the emoji: ... They also temper the bluntness of our words similarly to shrug or a wink. ... a punctuation point which cost $1.99 to download which was intended to be used to ...

Emoji have very little space to convey a large message. A simple shape makes it easier for users to scroll through a set of more than 2,000 emoji to find the one they want.