Every year, the Unicode Consortium decides on new emoji characters that will be coming to smartphones and other devices in ...

What each emoji means is sometimes open to interpretation ... These are similar to the two simpler smiley faces. However, ...

First the thumbs up, now the smiley face. Young people have been urging everyone to stop using the ‘smiley’ emoji because it ...

Who creates the symbols so many of us now use to communicate? How do they get on our phones? And why can’t we all agree on ...

Of the six billion emoji that are sent globally every day, around 70% are emotion based – for example, smiley face, love hearts. A smaller proportion of the emoji sent are sad expressions.

Yet as societies and technologies evolve, what will become of the archaic winking-face emoji? How about the original simple ...

Speaking to the Wall Street Journal, 21-year-old Hafeezat Bishi spoke about her experience with the emoji as some of her new ...