Of the 50,000 emoji tracked by Moji since its June launch, the most popular include a happy face with tears of joy, thumbs up, the Lul meme, a smiling Barack Obama, and crying Michael Jordan.

For those of you somehow blissfully unaware, iPhone users that want to spice up their iMessage game can download animated sticker packs and send what amounts to custom emoji to friends and family ...

Besides animated emoji, there are other new features that WhatsApp has been working on. For example, the platform is experimenting with short video messages – another feature that already exists ...

Giphy is moving past just GIFs and getting into the business of everything animated. Starting today, the company is rolling out two new formats: Giphy Emoji and Giphy Text. The new features expand ...

But animated emoji are not calm. They’re distracting, especially in a Teams app that Microsoft encourages us to leave open and in focus as a communications tool.

Those emoji are said to have small file sizes and to be scalable without losing image quality. An animated emoji feature is unlikely to lead to an influx of new users by itself, but it could make ...