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 ...

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 has announced its plan to move Google Hangouts users over to Google Chat next year. It's also making Chat a free service rather than restricting it to paying Google Workspace – formerly G Suite ...

Google has laid Hangouts to rest, a couple of years after it first announced that it was going to push people to use Chat, its Slack-like app, instead. After allowing users to move to Chat on their ...

Google Hangouts is about to go the way of the dodo bird. However, you will not immediately be cut off from your beloved Hangouts. Here is everything you need to know about backing up your Google ...

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 ...

Hangouts holdouts will have to finally say goodbye to Google’s most resilient chat app later this year. On Monday, the company announced it would start migrating consumer Hangouts users to Chat before ...

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. is a reporter with five years of experience covering consumer tech releases, EU tech policy, online platforms, ...

Google's new version of Hangouts for Gmail eliminates Google Voice features. The move is frustrating heavy users, many of whom disconnected landline phones in exchange for Internet calling. The ...

Google Hangouts is scheduled for death today. The phone app has been individually booting people off the service since July, but the last vestiges of Hangouts, the web app, will be shut down today.