Formerly known as smileys and often confused with emoticons, emoji faces are used on SMS and social media apps like Instagram ...

Who creates the symbols so many of us now use to communicate? How do they get on our phones? And why can’t we all agree on ...

Every year, the Unicode Consortium decides on new emoji characters that will be coming to smartphones and other devices in ...

Of the six billion emoji that are sent globally every day, around 70% are emotion based – for example, smiley face, love hearts. A smaller proportion of the emoji sent are sad expressions.

Speaking to the Wall Street Journal, 21-year-old Hafeezat Bishi spoke about her experience with the emoji as some of her new ...