Google Hangouts

Google Hangouts to officially be decommissioned starting October this year

Hangouts had a billion downloads on Android while it also served as the primary chat portal for Gmail.

Google to transition G Suite users from Hangouts to Chat and Meet by October 2019

Google says regular users will see a free version of Chat and Meet following the G Suite transition.

Google says Hangouts will transition to Chat and Meet rather than shutting down

At present Google supports several apps that provide more or less the same function as Hangouts.

Google will reportedly shut its Hangouts services for users by the year 2020

Hangouts services was launched as a replacement for GChat in 2013 by Google.

Slack to roll out search filters to help you sift through work chats easily

Slack searches will now be 70 percent faster following the improvements in the backend.

Google Duo is now getting updates for multi-device and tablet support

The update has also reached only a small number of users and should roll out to more in the course of time.

Arvind Kejriwal denounces lynching mobs, says India needs to be protected from 'politics of hate'

Denouncing the recent incidents of alleged mob lynchings "in the name of religion and cow", Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday said the country needs to be protected from "this politics of hate".

Google Talk comes to an end as Hangouts takes over

Introduced in 2005, Google Talk has now been replaced by Hangout which operates on both, Android and iOS apps, other than Chrome.

Google Hangouts will drop support for SMS in May, suggests leaked email

Google Hangouts is an odd app in Google’s app stable. It’s one of those things you tend to use because it’s there rather than because you want to.

Google 'Hangouts Meet' tool and Slack lookalike 'Hangouts Chat' launched, only for enterprise users

Hangouts has been way behind in terms of features and has been in limbo for a very long time. Google has finally announced updates to the platform