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.

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 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 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 ...

Open Yahoo Messenger. Double-click on your friend's name in your Messenger List. Type your message in the text box and click "Send" or press "Enter" on your keyboard when done.

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

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 ...

Yet another zero-day flaw affecting Yahoo Messenger has been posted online, bringing to nine the number of such vulnerabilities aimed at the IM software this year.

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 also offers an invisible mode, where you can be online but look like you are offline. You can send an SMS message from Yahoo Messenger to either your IM contacts or iPhone contacts.

Yahoo is now offering its Yahoo Messenger IM service as a web-based service, eliminating the need to run a separate client application. The new service is limited to the Yahoo Messenger and ...