In April, Facebook announced it would be splitting off messaging on mobile devices into the separate, more fully featured Messenger app. After testing the strategy in Europe, Facebook said Monday that ...

With a billion active users, Facebook Messenger is easily one of the top messaging apps in the world (it's tied with Facebook-owned WhatsApp, which also has about a billion users). Just about all of ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Q: My issue: Understanding the Messages app (on Android phone) and the Messenger app (part of Facebook) and why they seem to fight each other? First, it ...

Messaging apps are a dime a dozen, so it can be hard to know which one is best for you. Big-name companies such as Apple, Google, Facebook, and others are now investing heavily in messaging apps, ...

Another billion-user milestone for Facebook: The company now has over 1 billion messaging users, after today announcing that it has passed 500 million monthly active users for Messenger, on top of the ...

This means that, like most others, I have to keep half a dozen apps installed on almost all my devices to stay in touch. Beeper solves this problem. It brings all the popular messaging services under ...

Facebook Messenger is rapidly becoming the one-stop-shop for all your communications — from SMS, voice/video/group calls, payment, transportation, apps, bots and more. Following the company’s annual ...

There are already about 100,000 monthly active Facebook Messenger bots out there right now, but a new suite of tools released at Facebook’s F8 conference this week could lead to a lot more. The new ...

Facebook is removing the messaging capability from its mobile web application, according to a notice being served to users: “Your conversations are moving to Messenger,” it reads. Welcome news to the ...

Soon you won't even need to be on Facebook in order to use its Messenger program. Tuesday, the social network said users of Android phones in various countries — not including the U.S. for now — will ...

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Around a month after Facebook began quietly merging its Messenger service with Instagram direct messaging, the transition has been officially launched, with a full rollout to all users soon to follow.