Of the six billion emoji that are sent globally every day, around 70% are emotion based – for example, smiley face, love hearts. A smaller proportion of the emoji sent are sad expressions.

Over time, emoji meanings have become subjective, depending on a message's context and wider cultural trends. Which shaking smiley face should you use? Is there a difference between each ...

as the iPhone introduced their own emoji keyboard and competing phone companies followed suit. The iconic yellow smiley face has an interesting story behind it - and it was around long before the ...

It goes to show that nothing beats service with a smile. New research has found that putting a smiley face emoji on a bill can bolster the average restaurant server’s tip by a whopping 11%, according ...

But according to a new study, there’s one thing that we should all be eliminating from our work emails – and that’s the smiley face emoji. Researchers at Amsterdam University, Ben-Gurion ...

A December 31 lawsuit against The New York Times by Baldoni, his business partners, and his publicists claimed that the Times' omission of an upside-down smiley face emoji in a quote it published ...