Google is getting back into the team collaboration space to take on Slack, Microsoft Teams, Workplace by Facebook, and Cisco Spark with a new service called Hangouts Chat. Available in a private beta, ...

After nearly a year in beta, Google today announced that its Slack-competing Hangouts Chat platform is ready for prime time. The internet giant announced last March that it was splitting its Hangouts ...

Google Hangouts has positioned itself as a prominent communication tool that facilitates messaging, voice calls, and video chats, all under one roof. Developed by the tech giant Google in 2013, this ...

Google Hangouts will have two new features that make the app more business user-friendly, the company announced Thursday. Hangouts Meet and Hangouts Chat have been added to the app, according to ...

Google has announced that starting today, people who are still using Hangouts on mobile will see an in-app prompt asking them to move to Chat in Gmail or the Chat app. The company says the new prompt ...

Starting Wednesday, July 22, Boston College Google Workspace accounts will be upgraded to have Google Chat as the default chat application (replacing the soon-to-be-retired Hangouts Chat). Google Chat ...

Google has been planning to end-of-life Classic Hangouts for Workspace users since 2018, but the mandatory switch to Google Chat is finally set to happen on March 22. It's the last step in a ...

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All Workspace customers were migrated to Google Chat earlier this year. Google announced today that classic Hangouts is going away for free users in October and laid out the migration plans to Chat.