While you probably haven't thought about it in years, the first mainstream universal messenger app for the Mac and just about every other platform will finally be completely retired in June 2024.

An Internet messaging service that has quietly amassed 28 million members is attempting to fashion itself into a next-generation Web force, competing with heavyweights such as Yahoo!, Excite and Lycos ...

It took AOL Time Warner's ICQ instant messenger service just four years to hit 100 million users, but AOL's dream of turning ICQ into a business has yet to materialize. The media giant on Wednesday ...

Remember ICQ? If you grew up in the late 90s and early 2000s, you must have heard of ICQ, one of the most popular messaging apps of that time. But like all good things, its time has come. The platform ...

Uh-oh! It’s 20 years to the day since the introduction of one of the internet’s most well-remembered chat apps: ICQ. It was pretty barebones in its first form, released by its Israeli student creators ...

Marguerite Reardon started as a CNET News reporter in 2004, covering cellphone services, broadband, citywide Wi-Fi, the Net neutrality debate and the consolidation of the phone companies. America ...

It took AOL Time Warner's ICQ instant messenger service just four years to hit 100 million members, but AOL's dream of turning ICQ into a business has yet to materialize. The media giant on Wednesday ...

COMMENTARY-- In case you haven't heard, there's a new ICQ available. I've already downloaded the new version of this instant-messaging tool and am using it, and I must say I like what I see; the new ...

I had just turned sixteen when instant messaging client ICQ was first released in November 1996. I started using the program a couple of months later, and will never be able to erase that annoying ‘uh ...

AOL (AOL) has sold its instant messaging company ICQ to Russian holding firm DST, the companies announced today. DST paid $187.5 million. AOL bought ICQ parent company MIrabilis in June 1998 for $287 ...