Most of the growth in emoji usage began after Apple began to support emojis with the release of its iOS 5 operating system in 2011. Google Android quickly followed suit, and an international ...

In the span of a few years, emoji — the smiley faces, hearts, flags and other small pictures installed in most smartphone, email and chat programs — have become ubiquitous in digital ...

LOL! Generations at war over peach and winking emoji...and don't even think of using the aubergine. There are now 3,633 officially recognised emojis with ten billion sent each day ...

Drivers can customize their vanity plates online through Personalised Plates Queensland, which is offering five different designs, including the "wink" emoji, "smile" emoji and the "heart eyes" emoji.