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 ...

Meta will discontinue Messenger.com and the Messenger desktop app by April 2026, redirecting desktop users to ...

Meta will shut down its Messenger website (messenger.com) in April 2026, redirecting users to Facebook for web chats, marking another step in merging Messenger back into the main platform ...

The move comes a few months after Meta shut down Messenger’s stand-alone desktop apps for Windows and Mac.

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 ...

Grandma and Grandpa never come to visit anymore because technology has reduced their grandkids to sticker-faced chat drones. (Facebook Image) Facebook announced Monday that it is rolling out a new app ...

Messenger hopes to insinuate itself deeper within the customer journey. On Tuesday, Facebook released a closed beta test of a customer chat plugin as part of Messenger 2.2 that allows businesses to ...

Becoming friends with someone on Facebook Messenger just became a lot easier. In a new update that started to roll out Thursday, Facebook's chat app now has Messenger Codes -- circular patterns around ...

Facebook’s video chat feature Messenger Rooms is now available to use, but is it secure and private? Facebook has just made its new video chat feature Messenger Rooms available to use, starting in ...

Facebook has updated Messenger with more business chat features. The social networking giant said Messenger 2.3 will bring deeper engagement between businesses and customers via improved customization ...