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 ...

Queenie Wong was a senior writer for CNET News, focusing on social media companies including Facebook's parent company Meta, Twitter and TikTok. Before joining CNET, she worked for The Mercury News in ...

Facebook Messenger by Crisp App combines two services that many of us hold near and dear: Facebook chat and VoiP. The app aims to one-up Facebook’s existing chat service by adding its own free VoiP ...

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 ...

Chat Heads let users read their messages on the Facebook app without leaving the Newsfeed or whatever else they were looking at, pulling up each individual message with a little bubble with the sender ...

Look out, Facebook users: Here comes voice chat. Sometime in the next few weeks, the social network's tens of millions of users will begin to be able to have high-quality voice conversations, even as ...

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 ...

Facebook chat is the social networking site's instant message feature that enables friends to communicate with each other in real time. After your chat conversation is finished, Facebook automatically ...

Facebook is jumping into the video chat game with Messenger Rooms, a new feature that allows up to 50 people to take part in a video chat, even if they don't have Facebook accounts. The social media ...