Google is officially urging Hangouts holdouts to migrate over to the new messaging suite, called Chat. Starting today, if you’re still using Hangouts on your mobile device, you’ll see an in-app screen ...

Google announced that its Hangouts service is going away a long time ago, and it’s now truly dead. Back in July, the Hangouts app for both Android and iOS was removed, while Hangouts for the web ...

Classic Hangouts to Google Chat transition: What users need to know Your email has been sent Hangouts, once Google’s do-everything communication app, has gotten increasingly focused over time as the ...

Google Hangouts will have two new features that makes the app more business user-friendly, the company announced Thursday. Hangouts Meet and Hangouts Chat have been added to the app, according to ...

Google Chat is available to everyone today. Photo: Florence Ion/Gizmodo Google is officially making its Workspace suite of apps available to all users with a Google account instead of limiting it to ...

After nearly a year in beta, Google today announced that its Slack-competing Hangouts Chat platform is ready for prime time. The internet giant announced last March that it was splitting its Hangouts ...

Google has announced that starting today, people who are still using Hangouts on mobile will see an in-app prompt asking them to move to Chat in Gmail or the Chat app. The company says the new prompt ...

Google has been planning to end-of-life Classic Hangouts for Workspace users since 2018, but the mandatory switch to Google Chat is finally set to happen on March 22. It's the last step in a ...

Google has built, launched, and forgotten about so many chat platforms over the years that it's getting hard to keep track of them all. When the company has a new idea on the communications front, ...

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As part of Google’s move to Chat as its primary messaging service, the company is officially shuttering its Hangouts platform. With the move to remote and hybrid work following the COVID-19 pandemic ...

Last month, Google started rolling out a free version of Google Chat ahead of classic Hangouts going away. The “early preview” of Google’s latest consumer messaging service is now widely appearing for ...