Companies in South Africa are being urged to address the use of emojis in the workplace due to potential misinterpretations.

Even when emoji appear in the middle of tweets, they often come between complete thoughts, like this: They act like punctuation, providing cues about how to understand the words that came before ...

“This case won’t definitively resolve what a thumbs-up emoji means, but it does remind people that using the thumbs-up emoji can have serious legal consequences.” ERIC GOLDMAN, of the High ...

A judge has ruled a "thumbs up" emoji can legally agree to a binding contract, following a texting dispute between a grain supplier and a buyer in Canada.

In an interview with a millennial, two Gen Alphas explained the rules of texting among young people. They outlined their grammar rules, emoji usage, and their stance on voice memos. Some viewers ...

A Canadian judge has ruled that the popular “thumbs-up” emoji not only can be used as a contract agreement, but is just as valid as an actual signature. The Saskatchewan-based judge made the ...

Thanks to a lawsuit in Canada, a simple thumbs-up emoji could become legally binding. The issue arose when a flax seed farmer was signing a deal with a grain buyer.

Saskatchewan court upholds earlier ruling that an emoji text sent by a farmer created a binding contract with grain buyer.

A Saskatchewan judge says an emoji can amount to a contractual agreement and ordered a farmer to pay more than $82,000 for not delivering product to a grain buyer after responding to a text ...