Look out, Facebook users: Here comes voice chat. Sometime in the next few weeks, the social network's tens of millions of users will begin to be able to have high-quality voice conversations, even as ...

Facebook is so intent on pumping up usage of its standalone Messenger app that it plans to kill off the chatting feature for its main Facebook app, keeping the messages button intact but automatically ...

Facebook Chat has evolved to enable more than simple one-to-one chatting. You can now talk to all members of a group using the Group Chat feature, for example. You can also invite multiple friends to ...

While Facebook does not allow you to use the chat feature for your business's page, you can still do so in your personal capacity. The "audience selector" feature that Facebook has implemented allows ...

Video chat is all the rage these days, thanks to new services such as Google+ Hangouts and Skype/Facebook integrated video chat. Video chatting is a great way to stay in touch with family and ...

Facebook has been phasing out its old Chat option in favour of its new standalone Messenger app. This hasn’t gone down particularly well with some users, as the new app eats up extra storage and RAM ...

Chat Heads let users read their messages on the Facebook app without leaving the Newsfeed or whatever else they were looking at, pulling up each individual message with a little bubble with the sender ...

From weather to shopping, the chat bot experience is only just beginning. — -- Get ready to make friends with chat bots on Facebook. The first few chat bots have settled into Facebook Messenger ...

Instant message aggregator Meebo integrated MySpace’s and Facebook’s chat services last month. It let Meebo users chat with friends on either network from within its own site. Now Facebook is making ...

Within "the next couple of weeks," Microsoft will discontinue support for Facebook Chat and Google Chat in Outlook.com. Microsoft notified Outlook.com customers of the pending change via an e-mail ...

AIM, AOL’s seminal instant messenger app, just received a preview update to pull it out of obscurity and compete with other more popular chat apps like Facebook Chat, Google Talk, Skype and a slew of ...

In an effort to drive users to its standalone messaging application, the social network will turn off the Facebook chat feature in its main mobile app and prompt users to download Messenger to talk ...