One of the web's very first messaging tools is being shut down next month — Yahoo Messenger will be discontinued on July 17. Yahoo made the announcement early on Friday. As the web has evolved ...

Yahoo Messenger might be the best messaging app no one will use. The company just released a completely revamped version of its messaging platform, focused on mobile, group messaging and image ...

Yahoo Messenger first made its debut as Yahoo Pager way back in 1998, at a time when instant messaging was the terrain of PCs, as an alternative to email and SMS on basic mobile devices.

Since Yahoo is terminating Yahoo Messenger and has no app at the ready for its users to migrate to, inevitably those remaining Messenger users will flock to a different company’s app.

Yahoo Messenger's closure in 2018 follows the sunsetting of AOL Instant Messenger in December 2017, both of which are owned by parent company Oath and lasted for around 20 years online.

Yahoo Messenger is so old, its original name was Yahoo Pager. For anyone who’s been on the service since the old days, that history archive could be filled with years of cringe-worthy memories.

Yahoo now calls version 7.0 of its instant-messaging tool Yahoo Messenger with Voice, playing up this app's ability to double as a Net-based phone service. Yahoo's tool is the second most popular ...

Yahoo Messenger was once a big name in the instant-messaging space. (When it launched in 1998, it was called Yahoo Pager.) It's mostly been abandonware for awhile now, an adorably ugly relic of a ...

Those of you who come to this blog know that I am not one to throw around superlatives. In fact, I am more of a critical curmudgeon than one who says "cool" a lot. But within hours of Yahoo ...

Yahoo Messenger revamped to focus on speed and Tumblr GIFs — too little, too late?