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 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, ...

The company also touted new security and data region management tools, and said Gmail’s Smart Compose is now available for business users. Editor’s note: This story has been updated with information ...

Google is officially urging Hangouts holdouts to migrate over to the new messaging suite, called Chat. Starting today, if you’re still using Hangouts on your mobile device, you’ll see an in-app screen ...

Google’s Hangouts work chat and videoconferencing service is undergoing some major changes to better serve businesses. The company announced Thursday that it’s going after the work group chat market ...

While Google Hangouts is making a shift to serve enterprise users, it won’t be vanishing for consumers. Last week, the company announced that it would be splitting the chat and videoconferencing ...

Going forward, Google Hangouts will be split into two services: Hangouts Meet and Hangouts Chat. As its name suggests, Meet is designed to “make joining meetings effortless so that people can be as ...