After bringing its pared-down Android app Messenger Lite to mature markets like the US and UK last autumn, Facebook is expanding its features to ramp up engagement. Today, the company announced that ...

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, ...

Facebook updated its Messenger Lite app with video chat functionality. You can either start a video call from a conversation or turn a voice call into a video call. Designed for low-end phones with ...

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Facebook released free-to-use Messenger Rooms, allowing multiple people to do video chat in a single array of windows at one time. Using this platform is relatively simple if all users already have a ...

Facebook today introduced Messenger Rooms, a competitor to Zoom’s videoconferencing service, which will let you host video gatherings with friends simply by sharing a link. Anyone will be able to join ...

Facebook is diving deeper into in-house game development with the launch of its own version of Snapchat’s multiplayer augmented reality video chat games. Today, Facebook Messenger globally launches ...

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced on Friday the company is introducing 50-person video chatrooms. This would likely compete with other videochatting apps, notably Zoom, which has seen huge gains ...

Facebook’s Messenger Lite app for Android is getting video chat, adding the final feature the slimmed-down app needed to become a truly viable replacement for the full-featured Messenger. It’s an ...