Facebook has launched the very first standalone Messenger app for desktop, available now on Windows and macOS. Audio and video calling via Messenger on a desktop browser has grown 100% in the past ...

Facebook Messenger is breaking free with a new desktop app that can be used to video chat while stuck at home. The company announced on Thursday that it's releasing a standalone Messenger desktop app ...

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Both Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp have their individual strengths and weaknesses. If you have both apps downloaded on your phone, chances are you’re familiar with a few of them. You might even rely ...

Facebook Tuesday introduced a mobile app that lets Android and iPhone users send instant messages to individuals and to groups. It's called Facebook Messenger. Messenger "is a separate app, so it only ...

The COVID crisis has kept people apart physically — and with social-distancing norms, a wave of services is pushing out “watch party” features, letting their users virtually stream video together with ...

Facebook announced the release of a new shared experience in its Messenger that lets users play games during video calls. The social media giant said in a blog post that the move helps people "deep ...

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 ...

It's a socially distant world, but that doesn't mean we can't be social. Video chatting apps exploded in popularity in 2020 as the world tries to sit the coronavirus pandemic out in the comfort of ...

In 2019, Mark Zuckerberg kicked off the project to merge Facebook Messenger, Instagram DMs, and WhatsApp. Last year, the company started unifying Instagram and Messenger by allowing you to message ...

Holiday shopping: We found the best Cyber Week deals for you. Since we can’t physically get together, this new norm of face-to-face communication through a screen may very well be our only way out of ...