Today is World Emoji Day, and some people are taking it pretty seriously – the Empire State Building will even be glowing yellow tonight to commemorate the emoijs’ "Simpsons"-esque default skin tone.

It's the latest issue dividing the generations: just what's in a wink when you add one to a message? Older people tend to use the winking face emoji to signify a jokey mood, but for youngsters it ...

In 2008, hardly anyone had heard of emojis. Now we can’t get enough of them. Well, some people can’t. If you’re young enough to have grown up on the internet, emojis can seem a bit passé. You might ...

With over 45 billion messages sent a day in the US, and endless evidence that messaging is eclipsing social networking in terms of the number of monthly active users the jury is in: Messaging is the ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Millennials, rejoice: A winking-face emoji is worth a slew of ironic words. The brain interprets irony or sarcasm conveyed by an emoji in the same way as it does verbal banter, ...