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Google is planning to create Audio Emojis for phone calls. [caption id="attachment_357360" align="alignnone" width="720"] Source: Droid-life[/caption] Google is planning to add Audio Emojis: a feature that allows users to play a sound effect and animation when tapped. It appears that it may only be available in Google's Phone application. It may be a Google Pixel exclusive based on rumors. Microsoft backed out of the merger plan not because it cannot afford the asking price of $37/share (an additional $9 billion from the original price) but because Yahoo's recent partnership with Google made things more complicated. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer explains the reason behind the withdrawal: We regard with particular concern your apparent planning to respond to a “hostile” bid by pursuing a new arrangement that would involve or lead to the outsourcing to Google of key paid Internet search terms offered by Yahoo! undesirable to us for a number of reasons: • First, it would fundamentally undermine Yahoo!'s own strategy and long-term viability by encouraging advertisers to use Google as opposed to your Panama paid search system. • This would also effectively enable Google to set the prices for key search terms on both their and your search platforms and, in the process, raise prices charged to advertisers on Yahoo. Read more in our articles including "Google to create Audio Emojis" and "Microsoft walks away from Yahoo deal".