The Unicode Consortium, the nonprofit organization that maintains the Unicode Standard to ensure emojis work across devices, ...

These new emojis have long-standing symbolic meanings, are visually distinctive, and contain multitudes of expression.” ...

Unicode Consortium is the standard bearer of emoji. The nonprofit organization maintains the Unicode Standard, the universal system for the numeric encoding of letters and characters so they can ...

The Face with Tears of Joy emoji has become the most recognisable expression of our times—digital shorthand for laughter, relief, irony, even passive aggression. It’s on WhatsApp groups, official ...

An update to Unicode Standard is now available, and introduces approximately 250 emoji pictographic symbols. The emojis are a part of the Unicode 7.0 software update from Apple, Google, and Microsoft.

Unicode only includes text descriptions for each of the emoji, so it's up to each individual company to create the graphics to go along with the symbols. When these emoji eventually make their way ...

The smiley face and heart icons popular in text messages predate today's smartphones. To trace their roots, you have to go back to Japan in the mid-1990s, when pagers were all the rage with teens.

Ahead of World Emoji Day on Wednesday, July 17, Apple and Google announced plans to bring an expanded set of emoji to their respective platforms. Today, the Unicode Consortium, the nonprofit ...

The Unicode Consortium has recently met to discuss the latest raft of emoji images to be included into Unicode 9.0 and has added seventy two new symbols, including the shrug and facepalm gesture ...