Google's approach to messaging has a reputation for being confusing, and so the search behemoth is trying to make a little clearer what's happening with Hangouts, Google Chat, and integration with ...

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 ...

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 ...

As the time comes to put the old girl down, Google started messaging users about moving their organizations to Google Chat. Reading time 3 minutes Google is just about ready to let Hangouts die its ...

At the end of last month, Google delisted its classic Hangouts app from iOS and Android app stores. Surprisingly, the soon to be retired Hangouts app has returned to the iOS App Store, but only if you ...

In addition to announcing a Phone subscription program, Google today emailed Fi subscribers about how to “Move [their] conversations to Messages by Google.” Support documents lay out in detail what to ...

Google’s strategy around its messaging apps is nothing if not messy right now (hello Hangouts, Meet, Chat, Duo and Co.), but it looks like things will get a bit easier come next year. We already knew ...

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 ...

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Hangouts Chat and Hangouts Meet are no longer. Google LLC has rebranded the enterprise chat and meeting services in G Suite as Google Chat and Google Meet, amid surging use of them during the COVID-19 ...