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 ...

Yahoo has updated its Messenger iPhone app to allow video calls from the iPhone to a computer, a feature that Apple has yet to release for its FaceTime standard. The Yahoo Messenger 2.0 iPhone app ...

And a new generation of mobile apps, such as Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, and China’s WeChat, basically reinvented what Yahoo Messenger and others had pioneered. Now Yahoo is releasing a ...

In fact, Yahoo's strategy with Messenger over the past decade hasn't exactly been forward-looking but now, the app is getting a much-needed refresher. Those answers include sharing photos and ...

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 has long taken a back seat to other Yahoo products on mobile devices, but today the company is finally unveiling a revamped app that brings its messaging platform into this decade ...

but will allow for video calls between iPhones and computers running the desktop Yahoo Messenger application. This new app poses some serious competition to Apple’s built-in FaceTime feature as ...

Yahoo has been rumored to be working on a revamped messenger app for a while now, and it looks like that new app may be taking its first step into the wild. Yahoo has quietly released the next ...

This time, the tech giant turned to an old favorite with a redesigned version of Yahoo Messenger -- brought back to life as a mobile app in late 2015. Like so many of Yahoo's other apps ...

Yahoo’s once-popular desktop messaging app, Yahoo Messenger, was left behind after the rise of mobile apps led to new giants like WhatsApp, Hangouts, and Facebook Messenger. Yahoo moved slowly ...