Facebook Home is due out today and will likely arrive soon, but the standalone Messenger app update is already here, and it brings Chat Heads support to most Android devices, regardless of whether or ...

In an effort to drive users to its standalone messaging application, the social network will turn off the Facebook chat feature in its main mobile app and prompt users to download Messenger to talk ...

Facebook Messenger users will be able to chat with people who are on Instagram without having to download a new app and vice versa, a move that links both services more closely together. Instagram and ...

Facebook’s Messenger app has evolved ever since it was first released as a standalone app in 2011. Today Messenger has over 1.3 billion people using it each month and has features like bots, ...

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Facebook has updated Messenger with more business chat features. The social networking giant said Messenger 2.3 will bring deeper engagement between businesses and customers via improved customization ...

Meta's Facebook is trialling new security and privacy features for Messenger. Meta has started to test end-to-end encrypted (E2EE) chat as a default for Messenger chats and, as a companion to it, ...

Facebook Messenger now has 900 million monthly active users (MAUs), a number that is sure to grow thanks to new modifications the social network is making. The company is adding three new tools ...

Facebook’s invasion of Instagram is nearing completion. Messenger chats are now available in the Instagram app — and vice versa — according to a joint update posted by Adam Mosseri, the head of ...

If you like to chat on Facebook using your mobile device, then you will have to use the separate Facebook Messenger app from now on. Facebook is spinning out mobile messaging from its main mobile app ...

Facebook is making it easier for businesses to leverage its Messenger service on their own websites. The company in November 2017 first launched a new customer chat plugin that allowed customers to ...

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