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Devo, Melanie and Frank discuss a shocking lawsuit that involves a thumbs up emoji, which is now headed to the Supreme Court.
Saskatchewan court upholds earlier ruling that an emoji text sent by a farmer created a binding contract with grain buyer.
From universal approval to cold or dismissive, the iconic thumbs-up emoji is losing favor with some. Can it make a comeback?
Generations often have differing perspectives on what something means. In this case, the Thumbs Up emoji is popular among older generations but is viewed as “passive-aggressive” by younger ...
Gen Z is claiming there should be a blanket ban on sending your work colleagues the ‘thumbs up’ emoji — claiming it creates ‘bad vibes’ in the office. Last year, British employees were surveyed on ...
At the same time, the infinity of available emoji has freighted other pictures with occult significance. Does your workplace find a thumbs-up lucid or aggressive?
Social media is all atwitter — um, all a-X-er? — about the emoji at the heart of last week’s federal court ruling allowing a securities suit to proceed against billionaire investor Ryan ...
The emoji, Keene wrote, does the same two things as a signature—identifying the signator and conveying acceptance of the contract.
Sending a thumbs-up emoji as a response could be considered an agreement to a legally binding contract, a judge in Saskatchewan, Canada, has ruled.
A Canadian judge finds that a thumbs-up emoji sent via text could also be considered an agreement to the terms of a contract.