Google Inc. continues to expand beyond its core search engine and push further into Web portal territory with the launch today of an instant messaging service with voice communications capabilities.

Baidu.com, the most popular search engine in China, plans to introduce an instant-messaging service, to be called Baidu Hi. Baidu said development work on Baidu Hi has been going on for nearly one ...

Microsoft and Yahoo are expected to allow subscribers to chat across each other's services and to make computer-to-computer voice calls, the Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday. AOL, a unit of Time ...

Eight of the nation’s largest financial institutions are deploying a specialized, secure instant-messaging service from start-up Communicator Inc., which also operates the BondHub and SyndicateHub ...

New Delhi: The Centre has issued directions to instant messaging services including WhatsApp, Signal and Telegram to continuously ensure the use of an active SIM card in the devices of users. The move ...

A recent report from Burton Group, "Instant Messaging: It's Not Just Idle Chatter," has highlighted the necessity of creating policies to govern the use of instant messaging (IM) within a company.