With just 7% of communication being attributed to spoken words, and the remainder down to body language and tone of voice, it’s easy to see why communicating online has been described as cold and impersonal. Emoticons, emoji and stickers are helping make digital communication a bit more human.

Group messaging phenomenon Slack serves over half a million workers every day as a replacement for email, improving communication, transparency and productivity. Now, the service has added emoji-based reactions to its offering – but what’s the purpose of this playful move?

The average Gen Yer spends five hours a week taking photos of themselves. Knowing how much this group loves a selfie, and that ease is considered the most important feature of banking, MasterCard is hoping its ‘selfie’ payment method will get them snapping and spending like there’s no tomorrow.

What are you doing when you browse through Twitter? Chatting with friends? Perusing your feed for the latest news story or celebrity brawl? Retweeting a meme? Domino’s now wants the social platform’s 302 million active users to start ordering their pizza from there, too.