Tumblr today has launched a feature that its user base has wanted for some time: messaging. The blogging platform has long offered an inbox feature and way for its users to ask each other questions, ...

In a world of nonstop busyness, instant messaging is easier, faster and simpler than other types of communication. Now that it’s shown its worth, companies are rushing to make a good thing even better ...

Instant messaging, also known as IM, is a special kind of online chat that provides real-time text communication with the help of the Internet. Instant messaging has been used for more than 25 years ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Once viewed primarily as a secret language used by teenagers, instant messaging (IM) is maturing into a viable communications tool for ...

The number of interested parties eager to listen in on your online conversations, including what you type through instant messaging, has never been higher. The need, in other words, for secure IM ...

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For most of the millions of people around the world who regularly use instant messaging, the communications tool has largely been a text-only experience in which typed emoticons offer only minimal ...

Real-time stock quotes may soon be available on request through popular Internet chat programs under a deal this week that offers the latest sign of instant messaging's growing maturity. Software ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write and speak on global business, sustainability, and innovation. Across the U.S. industrial landscape, corporate instant ...

Instant-messaging software is so 20th-century. These days, the IM action happens on the Web, as evidenced by browser-based services like Meebo and the IM capabilities offered by Google and Yahoo. Now ...

Last month, LinkedIn unveiled a new Trending Storylines feature aimed at turning the social network into more of a daily habit by raising the visibility of some of the most interesting conversations ...