Google Chat — formerly known as Hangouts Chat — can now be used as a PWA on desktop platforms. The recently reported move comes with a few advantages and trade-offs. It alleviates the need for users ...

Google is killing off its existing Google Chat app this month and making it a Chrome-based Progressive Web App (PWA) that behaves like a native desktop app. Google issued the alert to its customers ...

Google Chat, the service formerly known as Hangouts Chat, has a new app that works on any PC with Chrome. The messaging service has long had a desktop application, but this Progressive Web App version ...

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, ...

Google has a habit of launching new messaging apps. Sometimes it even keeps developing them. And it looks like the latest is coming to new places. The company launched the Allo messaging app last year ...

Coronavirus has many people staying home and connecting with friends and coworkers through video chat. Here are two options for staying in touch. Shelby Brown (she/her/hers) is an editor for CNET's ...

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 ...