If you want a statistic on the tremendous reach and widening scope of Facebook Messenger, here’s a fairly impressive one: the chat app logged a total of 17 billion video calls in 2017. That’s double ...

Facebook has looked back at its Messenger and the messaging trends that shaped 2017, "uncovering interesting data about how people are messaging with each other and businesses – over two billion ...

Should there be any question regarding the relevance and importance of video, one only has to consider Facebook Messenger’s 2017 stats. This year Facebook Messenger counted 17 billion real-time video ...

Facebook Messenger has grown a lot since it was originally introduced as Facebook Chat way back in 2008. Since it launched, it has grown from a very simple web-based messaging system to one that ...

It has been more than three years since Facebook split off the chat function from its main platform to create the separate Messenger app. Ever since, the team has been adding more features and ...

This story was delivered to BI Intelligence Apps and Platforms Briefing subscribers. To learn more and subscribe, please click here. On Monday, Facebook announced its acquisition of artificial ...

Messaging is the center of mobile, and Facebook wants ads in front of all those eyes. After seeing “promising results from Australia and Thailand,” Facebook Messenger is expanding its display ad beta ...

Not many big apps have transformed as drastically as Messenger in recent years. Originally just a component of Facebook, the messaging platform was spun out into an optional alternative standalone app ...

For the first time, Facebook is opening up to children under age 13 with a privacy-focused app designed to neutralize child predator threats that plague youth-focused competitors like Snapchat.

Facebook Messenger appears to be crashing almost instantly for some iPhone owners. A mobile developer suspects the culprit may be an obscure "CryptoTokenKit" found in the latest version of the ...