Finding the right words when dating is hard. Finding them when you’re trying to impress on a dating app is harder. So emoji end up doing a lot of the work instead. You can’t have love without some ...

Keyboard app maker Swiftkey, which was acquired by Microsoft for $250 million in February, has officially launched its first product since that acquisition — and it’s an emoji-predicting keyboard app, ...

A number of iOS app developers have been mystified by a new wave of app rejections related to their use of Apple’s emojis. They’ve suspected that a new App Store crackdown is underway. However, the ...

App Review appears to be more strictly enforcing rules regarding the use of Apple intellectual property in third party apps, which now includes emoji. Developers are reporting that their apps are now ...

Communicating with emoji Is really an artform. It’s quick, easy and creative—and now there’s an app to help you perfect your emoji dialog. SpeakEmoji takes your words and directly translates them into ...

Microsoft-owned keyboard app maker SwiftKey today launched a brand-new iOS app, this time focused on predictive emoji suggestions. Called Swiftmoji, the app runs a crowdsourced usage data algorithm to ...

Following in the wake of services along the likes of Yo, the one-word messaging app, a new concept has emerged which is just as novel but also just as useless. In case you felt that sending emoji ...

It can be a notoriously difficult process to get a new emoji approved by the Unicode Consortium — the creators and gatekeepers of all things emoji — but a new app seeks to give the texting public a ...

If you are into cute little cell phone icons that (may) speak a thousand words, Apple’s last iPhone OS update brought an important feature: Emoji picture characters. While Emoji are enabled by default ...

Apple's iOS devices have long carried at least partial support for emoji, picture characters popular for text messaging in Japan but also gaining interest in countries around the world. Initially the ...

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