Facebook brings Chat Heads to Messenger for Android (and it’s not awful)

Chat Heads may be a big feature in Facebook Home, but that doesn't mean Facebook can't bring it to its other apps.

Hot messaging app MessageMe already has over 1M users, nabs $1.9M in funding

MessageMe has been busy since its launch a week and a half ago. The messaging application has been cut off from Facebook’s Open Graph, raised $1.9 million in seed funding, and attracted more than 1 million users

Facebook quietly brings voice calls to U.S. iPhone owners

After launching voice calls for Canadian iPhone users earlier this month, Facebook today began rolling out the feature for those in the U.S.

Death to SMS: Facebook Messenger for Android opens up to non-Facebook users

With the latest update to its Messenger app, Facebook is taking aim at not only rival WhatsApp, but SMS as a whole.

Facebook’s iPhone app adds easy chat access, plus support for Gifts

Facebook’s iPhone app is now sporting features first seen in the company’s standalone Messenger app: now you can swipe left from anywhere inside the app to access your friends and instantly begin chatting.

With version 5.1 of Facebook’s iPhone app, …

Firefox goes social with Facebook Messenger integration

Firefox users can now respond in record time to pressing pings from Facebook friends thanks to a collaboration between Mozilla and the social network.

Facebook Messenger for iOS is now even better for chat fanatics

Facebook yesterday updated its standalone Messenger app on iOS to fully support the iPhone 5 and iOS 6, while also adding some useful features for chat addicts.

Facebook Messenger matures into rich chat app with bigger photos and in-app notifications

Facebook’s 11-month-old Messenger mobile app for sending texts and exchanging photos and locations with friends, is putting on its big boy pants today, maturing into a full-featured chat and messaging service with bigger photos, better notifications, and all-around improved performance.…

Facebook Messenger now shows who’s read your messages

In an effort to eradicate some of the challenges associated with text-based communication, Facebook has today updated the iOS and Android versions of Messenger, the social network’s cross-platform messaging-only app.

Version 1.7 of Facebook Messenger for iPhone and Android, out …

Facebook’s first desktop app for Windows gets its official launch today

Facebook is officially launching its first Windows desktop app today.

Facebook Messenger, which allows you to see and respond to Facebook activity, including chat messages, will allow users to keep up with their friends and Facebook activity directly from the …

Facebook Messenger for Windows is more than a chat app — and you can get it now

Update: Facebook has made the download link available in the Help Center.

Facebook is busy perfecting a Messenger desktop application for Windows that compacts the best of Facebook — chat, ticker and notifications — into an always-accessible, dock-able miniature …

Facebook may beat Google to adding iOS supported video chat

Facebook’s Messenger application may be adding video chat features, according to a rumor on Italian technology blog iPhoneItalia.

The blog’s source is reporting that Facebook has released a beta test of the new video feature to developers only. The rumor …

Skype purchasing GroupMe to ramp up group communications

Skype on Sunday said it will acquire group messaging startup GroupMe, a move that will help the company expand its offerings in group-based communications. Exact terms of the deal were not disclosed.

“[GroupMe] complements our existing leadership in voice and …