Journal got into the game with a tool that translates headlines into emoji, while Yelp’s mobile app now lets users search using emoji (an Italian flag, for instance, brings up...

Read our roundups in magazine form on Flipboard, via the iOS and Android app or online; click here to find our magazine collection. -No words necessary as emoji evolve into...

...intelligence, announces Gulf News. –Instagram has launched a new polling format which lets users answer questions by moving an emoji on a sliding scale, explains Engadget. –A startup called Transit...

...40% in the past year, reports the FT. -If box-office success can be built with Legos, why not emoji? Sony is on it. Via BBC. Image source: The Calvert Journal...

...like the selfie is the next version of emoji—like emoticons morphed into emoji, which morphed to selfies, which are just a much more expressive, visual way of telling people what’s...

...in activist automation”: A Black Lives Matter Twitter bot has been engineered to be a political influencer, and Fast Company has the details. –Will Apple’s new water pistol emoji do...

...Business of Fashion. -Smart clothing that tracks athletic performance is the next big thing in wearable tech, writes The Guardian. –New York chronicles the history of emoji and “the rapid...

As we outline in one of our 10 Trends for 2014 and Beyond, images are increasingly supplanting words as consumers embrace images over text. Mobile devices—with their built-in cameras, emoji-enabled...

...disappear?” Marketers will need to learn how to navigate in a post-text world, harnessing visual platforms in creative ways. We also offer this post in emoji:   Image credit: Livestream...

...apps are killing text,” according to a Digital Trends piece. –Wired examines the mood graph and “how emotions are taking over the Web.” -As more people communicate via emoji, The...