Facebook Messenger celebrated its 10th anniversary this week, adding the option for users to send cash birthday gifts directly through the platform using Facebook Pay. The new feature is the latest step in the company’s ongoing efforts to try to scale the Facebook Pay service....
Facebook is trialing a program to let some users make voice and video calls on its main app, Reuters reported. The aim is to make it easier to place calls without using the standalone Messenger app, which was spun off from the main app several...
Facebook is creating a “metaverse,” which allows for digital worlds that several people can share simultaneously, and it is in the process of setting up a team for the project, CNBC reported. Facebook Vice President of Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) Andrew Bosworth...
The mobile wallet race officially became the mobile wallet war Wednesday, after Facebook announced plans to support the use of its Facebook Pay system on sites outside of its ecosystem. This first big step into the wider world of payments would have been less remarkable had it...
Facebook is fully launching its cloud-based gaming platform to make it available to most Americans, after testing the service out starting last October. The company is building up its “free-to-play mobile catalogue of games in a measured way and deepening the games people can enjoy...
Facebook‘s fate in terms of its acquisition of U.S. customer service startup Kustomer will be decided by antitrust officials soon, U.S. News reports. The deal was intended to help scale up the social media company’s WhatsApp, which saw a new spate of usage in the...
Facebook has closed above $1 trillion in the market for the first time ever, CNBC reported. That makes the social media giant the fifth company after Apple, Microsoft, Amazon and Google parent Alphabet to reach that milestone, according to CNBC. Facebook’s revenue almost entirely comes...
Facebook today launched Live Audio Rooms, the social media giant’s competitor to audio-based Clubhouse. Facebook said, in a press release, that public figures and select Facebook Groups in the U.S. can start to use the feature on iOS, Apple’s operating system, while select podcasts will...
Facebook is furthering its project for virtual reality (VR) with a “small test” of in-headset ads, according to a company blog post. This follows its Oculus announcement of ad tests, which were intended to show developers how they could use the VR applications, the post...