If you're old enough to remember a world without smartphones, you've probably heard about Yahoo! Messenger (or Yahoo! the search engine), even if you've never used it. The instant messaging client ...

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 ...

It’s the end of an era for Yahoo Messenger, one of the first instant messaging apps on the market. Today, Oath (which also owns TechCrunch) announced that it would be winding down the service on ...

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 (both the web and mobile apps) will be discontinued on July 17. You have six months to download your chat history before everything is deleted. There ...

Verizon paid billions last year for the privilege of ushering Yahoo’s services into the great unknown and on Friday it announced that Yahoo Messenger will bite the dust on July 17. Yahoo’s new ...

Shoemaker says the Messenger team plans to release new features at a rapid clip, adding novelty to an app that is not particularly distinctive in its initial version. Before Yahoo acquired it last ...

(That'll save many people from embarrassing drunk texts.) The platform underpinning Yahoo Messenger, called Iris, will power many other Yahoo products soon. It has many jobs, but one in particular ...

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 ...

We’ll wait… Chances are, you might have Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, Skype, and/or Viber, four of the most popular messaging apps currently on the market. But Yahoo wants to become a bigger ...