Google Hangouts

Teen app sensation Houseparty will get some competition as Facebook Messenger is launching its own split-screen group video chat feature. Six users can appear in split-screen at the time and don Sna

Google first announced Allo and Duo, its new messaging and video chat apps, at its I/O developer conference earlier this year. Duo launched about a month ago and today it’s Allo’s turn.

Google announced today that Hangouts On Air will move from Google+ to YouTube Live on September 12; users will be asked to migrate to YouTube Live. In an email to TechCrunch, Google confirmed that H

Slack was being cheeky when yesterday it said voice chat would start testing “very, very soon”. Today the new “Calls” feature starting rolling out on Slack for desktop and on t

If you're an avid user of Google Hangouts at work, then this update will make you happy. Google Apps for Work users were able to invite outside guests to video calls as of last year, but the team has

As terror attacks put France into a national state of emergency on Friday, AirBnB, Facebook, Google, Skype, Twitter and Uber launched into disaster response mode. AirBnB contacted all hosts in Pari

It's Friday, and sometimes when we try to wind our week down something winds us back up. Today, it has to do with the app that a lot of us use the most on Mac...Messages.

Google’s Hangouts app for Android is getting a major update today, as the company’s VP of Product for Google+ Bradley Horowitz announced at the LeWeb conference in Paris this morning. S

Google wants to make it easier and faster for customers to use its free video and voice chat service Hangouts, which is why this morning it is rolling out a new Hangouts Chrome App for Chrome OS and W

For the last few years, it has always felt like Google Voice, the company's VoIP calling solution, was on its way out. Instead, the video-centric Hangouts was getting all of the attention. But fret no

The Gillmor Gang — Dan Farber, Kevin Marks, Semil Shah, Danny Sullivan, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor — played the latest favorite game of the Mobility Addicted. It's called Lock Screen, and some

Shortly after Google launched Hangouts, it also started allowing you to add participants by dialing their phone numbers right from Hangouts. Even today, though, you can’t dial into a Hangout. T

The Gillmor Gang — Robert Scoble, John Taschek, Keith Teare, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor — took out their devices and slapped them down on the table. By any measurement, the Context Wars are we

A number of sources, including tipsters reporting directly to TechCrunch, as well as Google support forum posters and individuals on Twitter are reporting that Google's Hangouts service is having some

Sources confirm Facebook will test the option to send private messages from its website's homepage status composer to increase messaging rates. It will also help Facebook compete with Google, whose we

Real-time creative collaboration startup, Scoot & Doodle, which piggybacks on Google+'s Hangouts feature as the arena for its learn-through-play app aimed at middle school age through to college s

Google announced today that it is kicking off A-Pop Star Week on March 8. The event will include Google+ Hangouts with C-, J-, and K-Pop singers (if you haven't guessed, the letters stand for Chinese,

One of the underlying features launched originally with the Google+ project was its video conferencing platform, Hangouts. It's been a success from the perspective of user adoption and also <a href="h

This is probably not the Google+ API you have been waiting for, but Google just <a target="_blank" href="https://plus.google.com/101180183373959987276/posts/3KHdBQGSNat">announced</a> the launch of ve

Google wants <a target="_blank" href="http://www.google.com/+/learnmore/hangouts/onair.html">Hangouts On Air</a> to become the way musicians stream concerts from their garage or the stadium, so today