Google is preparing its Workspace customers to make the shift from Hangouts to Chat and the switchover starts on August 16. From then on, Google will push users who have selected the "Chat and classic ...

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 ...

At the tail end of 2018, we reported on Google’s plans to replace Hangouts with Chat and Meet. The company later confirmed the news and has since been moving enterprise users to those two apps. 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 ...

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 ...

After nearly a year in beta, Google today announced that its Slack-competing Hangouts Chat platform is ready for prime time. The internet giant announced last March that it was splitting its Hangouts ...

Next year, Google Chat will go free ahead of the eventual deprecation of classic Hangouts. The Google Workspace team today is highlighting upcoming changes that will begin to launch later this week.

Google is, once again, changing up its messaging app strategy. The company plans to make Chat, its Slack-like app, free for everyone in 2021, when it will push people currently using Hangouts to use ...

The very confusing integration of Google Chat and classic Hangouts, has begun. Google announced last year, that it was going to be getting rid of classic Hangouts by the end of the year (2020), and it ...

Google’s strategy around its messaging apps is nothing if not messy right now (hello Hangouts, Meet, Chat, Duo and Co.), but it looks like things will get a bit easier come next year. We already knew ...

It’s time to talk about Google messaging again. The company’s latest blog lays out future plans for its suite of messaging services, which includes stripping features out of Google Hangouts as we head ...