Facebook will soon start weighing in on your conversations. The social media giant announced Thursday that it’s bringing a virtual assistant to its Messenger chat app that aims to make helpful ...

After killing Direct, which was supposed to be Instagram's own messaging system, Facebook is going to unveil a new chat app that will be tied to Instagram accounts, as if the world needed more ...

Facebook stores all messages sent and received in Facebook Chat even after you close the chat window to end a conversation with a friend, business contact or colleague. The social network groups the ...

AIM, AOL’s seminal instant messenger app, just received a preview update to pull it out of obscurity and compete with other more popular chat apps like Facebook Chat, Google Talk, Skype and a slew of ...

Facebook includes a Chat application allowing you to instant message online friends without having to post something on the person's wall. While chatting, Facebook automatically records your entire ...

Now there’s a Facebook Chat app for the enterprise. The social network has quietly published a standalone Workplace Chat app, a year after it launched its browser-based Workplace enterprise networking ...

M won’t be the only artificial intelligence on Facebook Messenger. Facebook has given some developers access to an unannounced Chat SDK that allows them to build interactive experiences and “bots” in ...

A new Facebook chat app designed for kids is raising concern among lawmakers and children’s groups over data privacy and safety. The app, Messenger Kids, is targeted toward children aged 6-12, who are ...

Did you know that more people are checking their chat apps than they are checking their social media accounts? Facebook Messenger, the world’s largest mobile messaging app (with more than 1.3 billion ...

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Facebook’s internal R&D group, NPE Team, has today launched a new app called CatchUp that makes it easier for friends and family in the U.S. to coordinate phone calls or set up group calls with up to ...