Russian owner VK has announced that ICQ will shut down on June 28th after nearly 28 years. ... “ICQ will stop working from June 26th,” and implores users to switch to its other chat solutions. ...

ICQ came into the picture at a time when most people were using IRC to chat. IRC, however, was mostly meant for group conversations — ICQ made it easy to communicate one-on-one.

America Online's ICQ instant messaging software now supports video chat, one of the first tangible results of the ICQ unit's recently launched developer program. ICQ in April began providing ...

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 ...

I think I stuck with ICQ as my go-to chat app for years until I stopped chatting online altogether. If I were growing up now, Discord would no doubt fill the same role that ICQ did—but I'm glad ...

The Chat Pioneer Turned 20 This Year (And Lessons Learned For 2017) Of course you do. ICQ’s ongoing success shows how smart it is to look at human needs in product development.

As smartphones and mobile-first chat apps like WhatsApp rose to prominence in the late 2000s, ICQ's appeal began waning despite its new owners trying to modernize it with redesigns and added features.

A security hole that may allow an attacker to run malicious code on a victim's PC has been detected in AOL's ICQ chat program. All versions prior to AOL Mirabilis 2001B are vulnerable to the ...

ICQ, short for "I Seek You," laid the groundwork for instant messaging clients upon its arrival in November 1996. ICQ influenced many popular chat programs of the ...

The buggy chat feature in ICQ has been bothering my group of friends for some time now. I keep trying to get them to use IRC, but they won't do it, ICQ ...

ICQ recently had about 20 million audited monthly users, mostly in Europe, Asia and South America. AOL's IM program, AIM, by contrast, counts about 36 million monthly users, mostly in the United ...