It's been a while since the Unicode Emoji Consortium released its sixth set of proposed emojis last June, with a follow up in August (which offered up a drunken face and unhappy poo, oddly enough).

Within our smartphones is a world of smiley faces, flowers, royals . . . and a pile of poo. And now many of them have come alive, in the off-Broadway musical “Emojiland.” Several key players tell us ...

There is no emoji more beloved than the smiling pile of poop. Soon, it might have a buddy. The Unicode Technical Committee, the body that decides what new emoji will grace our text messages or social ...

It turns out you can have too many emoji. Where the small pictographs were once useful in portraying and simplifying the expression of common emotions/things/places, it now seems humanity is set on ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- Emoji are having a moment. The yellow smileys and prayer hands and grinning poop symbols may have worked their way into popular culture years ago, but the glyphs seem to have reached ...

Hershey’s is speaking emoji. For the first time in the company’s 125-year history, its milk chocolate bars are getting a new look. The limited-edition bars have a digital-forward design featuring ...