Articles about Facebook Messenger

Late last night, Facebook and its subsidiary services, including WhatsApp, Instagram, and Messenger, suffered a worldwide outage that lasted nearly six hours.

Late last night, popular social media platform Facebook and all its subsidiaries, including WhatsApp, Messenger, and Instagram, suffered a global outage that lasted nearly six hours.

Facebook and major social media platforms owned by it—WhatsApp and Instagram—have suffered a major global outage on Monday night.

Mark Zuckerberg-led Facebook first created Messenger as a spin-off in 2011 and officially transferred support for voice and video calls from the main Facebook app to it in 2014.

Social media giant Facebook has unveiled multiple new theming features across its messaging services, including Messenger, Instagram, and Messenger Kids. Functional improvements include visual replies, read receipts, improved audio recording tools, and an updated archive feature on Instagram.

Analysts at cybersecurity firm Group-IB's Digital Risk Protection (DRP) wing have uncovered an old-school phishing scam targeting Facebook Messenger users at a global scale.

The market of mobile apps continued to grow in 2020 in spite (or rather because) of the pandemic.

More than a year ago, Facebook made headlines over the controversial plan to unify the underlying infrastructure of its main chat apps.

Last night, Apple started rolling out its latest operating system for mobile and tablets, the iOS 14 and iPadOS 14.

In a bid to make virtual connections more fun and exciting, Facebook has launched a new 'Watch Together' feature inside its Messenger app.

This week, several big players made headlines in the world of technology.

More than a year ago, Facebook had announced the audacious plan of merging the underlying infrastructure of its key messaging products - Instagram direct messages, Messenger, and WhatsApp.

In a major move, social media giant Facebook has launched Messenger Rooms, a dedicated virtual meeting platform to take on the likes of Zoom and Google Meet.

Earlier this year, The Wall Street Journal had reported that Facebook was putting its WhatsApp advertising plans "on ice".

More than nine years after launching Messenger, Facebook has made the popular messaging service available as a dedicated app for Windows and macOS users.

Even though smartphones offer plenty of emojis to play with, Google is striving to create more options for its users.

Apple follows strict security protocols for iPhones and all its key products. But, when the matter is as serious as the sharing of child pornography, the company can 'intercept' emails to help the authorities with investigations.

Over the years, phones have changed much more than anyone could have imagined.

As the US gears up to celebrate Thanksgiving, the leading social network of the country has gone down.

Last year, Instagram debuted a feature to let users share their stories with a select group of followers or their 'close friends'.

The launch of Facebook's cryptocurrency Libra could get delayed beyond the scheduled target of June 2020 owing to regulatory concerns that have been raised around the world.

Facebook Dating, the dedicated service to find love and matches the likes of Tinder and OkCupid, has been launched to a wider set of users.

WhatsApp offers end-to-end encryption to keep messages secured between the sender and receiver.

No matter how much you try, there's no escaping the smartphone, not in today's world.

Google Assistant, the AI-backed digital helper from Google, is getting a minor but very useful capability - the ability to read out messages.

Despite being marred by plenty of privacy-related debacles, Facebook is making some decisions that are difficult to explain.

WhatsApp appears to be testing a new feature, an option that would let you share your Statuses to Facebook.

Just a few days back, Facebook announced Libra, a cryptocurrency based on a blockchain-based network called Calibra.

In a bid to foray into the world of global payments, Facebook has confirmed its plans to launch a new cryptocurrency in 2020.

Social media giant Facebook hires the brightest minds in the world to offer the absolute best, bug-free experience to its users, however, recently, a bug did skip their eye.

WhatsApp, the largest messaging service in the world, will serve advertisements as part of an effort to generate revenues.

Facebook is said to be working on its own cryptocurrency, a stablecoin, to enable payments on WhatsApp.

Let's face it, it's pretty common to be blocked by someone these days.

A few hours ago, Facebook hosted the opening keynote for its F8 developer conference.

More than five years ago, Mark Zuckerberg took the major step of separating messaging from the main Facebook app. He launched 'Messenger', a separate app that had to be installed to keep in touch with friends.

Despite hosting over a billion active users, WhatsApp hasn't captured a particular segment of the market yet- iPad owners.

Facebook has decided to pull the plug on its apps for Windows Phone, the dead mobile OS from Microsoft.

Instagram could soon get a small, albeit very impactful, branding change.

Lately, Facebook has been trying hard to improve the capabilities of its mobile apps, particularly Messenger.

Chris Cox, one of the first 15 software engineers of Facebook, is quitting the tech giant after mulling over it for more than two years.