SINGAPORE — Facebook issued a special set of emoticon stickers today (Aug 7) dedicated to Singapore’s 50th birthday on Sunday. The 16 stickers feature a mascot called Maju the Lion uttering various ...

Jennifer Van Grove covered the social beat for CNET. She loves Boo the dog, CrossFit, and eating vegan. Her jokes are often in poor taste, but her articles are not. In an effort to boost messaging, ...

Facebook is rolling out the ability to send private messages with stickers — cute, pre-made, sometimes animated images — from its website. Facebook launched stickers on mobile in mid-April, but now ...

Sophie Xie, who started Facebook's sticker initiative as a hackathon project, has left the social network just three months after the fancy emoticons made their debut. Jennifer Van Grove covered the ...

I have a shameful admission to make: I am addicted to Facebook stickers. If you’re not familiar with them yet, you will be. They’re a modern day version of Egyptian Hieroglyphics – a way of conversing ...

In the future, there will be no more words. If you’ve been vexed by people who type in “ur” instead of “you are”, and feel confused with acronyms more uncommon than LOL (laugh out loud) in your ...

Facebook is getting serious about its sticker collection, after it quietly introduced branded stickers from Lego, just days after it added a new like sticker pack for its users. Unlike Path, Viber and ...

One day, brands might pay Facebook to become downloadable sticker packs. Facebook just launched its first branded sticker pack for messaging — a collection based on the new Universal film Despicable ...

They're cuddly, cartoonish expressions of love, sadness and anger, yet some serious science went into Facebook's messaging emoticons. Called Stickers, these emoticons were born out of more than two ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. is The Verge’s executive editor. He has covered tech, policy, and online creators for over a decade. The stickers ...

With the help of a psychology professor and a Pixar illustrator, Facebook is trying to make our messages a little more emotional. By Shaunacy Ferro Published May 13, 2013 9:45 PM EDT Get the Popular ...