Over the next few days, Facebook will stop allowing messaging in its main iPhone and Android apps, and force all their users around the world to download its standalone Messenger app. Facebook first ...

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Messenger on Huawei is a stand-alone app that equates with Facebook. Messenger is a free app for your smartphone. It can be used for instant messaging to someone who has a Facebook account. Share ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook Messenger says it's rolling out group video chat by popular demand. Rather than being limited to person-to-person video calls, up to 50 people can listen, join in via voice ...

Facebook today began allowing a limited test group of users to download a new Facebook Messenger for Windows 7 desktop client. It provides access to Chat, the Ticker feed, and notifications. Facebook ...

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If you are one of the Facebook users who’s been cranky about Messenger, the new app launched two weeks ago that many users were asked to download it in order to access their Facebook messages on their ...

Before last Tuesday, I was vaguely familiar with the security-minded chat app Signal, thanks mainly to the news that DNC staffers had switched to using the app after the DNC was hacked in midsummer.