This week saw Hangouts Meet become Google Meet amid a surge in video conferencing usage. Hangouts Chat is picking up a new feature that lets you forward messages to Gmail. On the web client, hovering ...

As the time comes to put the old girl down, Google started messaging users about moving their organizations to Google Chat. Reading time 3 minutes Google is just about ready to let Hangouts die its ...

Two years after Apple set out to bury the text message with its iMessage service, Google is reportedly about to launch something similar for Android devices. A report by Android Police claims that ...

It appears that Google has moved on to the next stage of the migration from classic Hangouts to Google Chats. As reported by 9to5Google, classic Hangouts messages have begun appearing in Chats instead ...

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Google has finally taken steps to super-charge its Hangouts app with new features, catching up with many of the messaging apps out there that have added a ton of features including stickers. A bunch ...

In addition to announcing a Phone subscription program, Google today emailed Fi subscribers about how to “Move [their] conversations to Messages by Google.” Support documents lay out in detail what to ...

If you've been enviously staring out your friends as they video message on Google Hangouts for iOS, the wait is finally over. That's right, Google has updated its Hangouts app for Android with the ...

Google's strategy around its messaging apps is nothing if not messy right now (hello Hangouts, Meet, Chat, Duo and Co.), but it looks like things will get a bit easier come next year. We already knew ...

Google Hangouts is scheduled for death today. The phone app has been individually booting people off the service since July, but the last vestiges of Hangouts, the web app, will be shut down today.

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