Tag Archives: messenger

Last year, Facebook made a very sneaky acquisition, snapping up popular GIF sharing platform, Giphy, in a $400 million deal. The acquisition was done privately, and seemingly at a discount, considering the company had recently been valued at $600 million. That little deal quickly caught the attention of regulators, and …

Last year, Facebook forced mobile users to move over to a separate messenger app for private messages. In January, the reasoning behind this became more clear, with Facebook announcing that it would begin showing adverts within the messenger app. In-app ads have been tested in a handful of countries but …

If you thought using Facebook's Messenger application was a good way to avoid seeing all of the adverts on the Facebook main site, think again. In what will begin as a small-scale trial in select territories, Facebook is set to begin running adverts within the app itself, providing links to …

As much as companies have made great strides in improving customer service over the past few years, offering social media responses, live-chats on websites and more localised call centres, they're still far from perfect. To help improve that, Facebook is looking to recruit chat bots to answer more people's questions, …

It looks like Facebook will soon be monetizing its Messenger app with paid advertisements some time in the next few months. Facebook is currently distributing a document to business partners indicating that they will be able to send ad messages to customers directly starting this year though businesses will only …

While it is common knowledge at this point that Facebook bought WhatsApp for $19 billion, the company hasn't actually done much with the messenger app until recently. Just last week it was announced that WhatsApp would no longer require a yearly subscription and now, it seems that the app is …

It has almost been two years since Facebook purchased WhatsApp for a massive $19 billion but since then, the company hasn't really done anything with it or changed the way it operates at all. However, one big change is finally happening- WhatsApp is dropping its annual subscription entirely. WhatsApp's subscription …

Just last week, Apple iPhone users were experiencing messenger app issues thanks to a bug caused by a specific string of text. Now, it looks like Skype is having the same problem. Microsoft's messaging app has become prone to continuous crashing on iOS, Android and Windows PC thanks to a …

Facebook is planning to launch a new feature for its Messenger app that will let you send money directly to other people. The feature is due to roll out in the US over the coming months but may not hit other countries for quite some time. The feature will be …

Research In Motion are planning to release a cross platform version of BlackBerry Messenger for Apple iOS and Google Android platforms. RIM are aiming to get the software out on Android first, followed up shortly afterwards with a release on iOS. We hear rumours that they aren't yet sure whether …