Google is in the process of shutting down Hangouts, its classic cross-platform instant messaging app. The company last week announced that the app will cease to exist this fall. Ahead of that, it has ...

Now, teens can join and create Hangouts from the Google+ mobile app, and users can join Hangouts on Air from their handset. CNET contributor Don Reisinger is a technology columnist who has covered ...

In the coming weeks, Google Chat will replace classic Hangouts for Workspace customers. As part of this, Google said it would disable the old Hangouts mobile apps, and that looks to be underway with ...

We know about Google’s track record with messaging apps. There are a bunch of messaging apps that the company unveiled only to drop soon after. Do you remember Google Chat or Google Plus Huddle?

It looks like Google is moving its focus away from Hangouts and toward other solutions. Although not unexpected, the company today started sending emails to Mobile Service partners saying that ...

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Hangouts was announced at I/O 2013 and combined the company’s disparate messaging platforms into one unified product. It includes the text elements of Google Talk and Google+ Messenger/Huddle, as well ...

The Google+ app for Android just received a big update that simplifies the way users can start Hangout video chats from their phones. Before now, users could only start a new Google+ Hangout by ...

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.

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