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 ...

Facebook wants to give you and your boo some space, so it created a chat app for iPhone users in love. Tuned is the product of Facebook’s New Product Experimentation Team. The engineers designed the ...

Bonnie Cha was a former chief correspondent for CNET Crave, covering every kind of tech toy imaginable (with a special obsession for robots and Star Wars-related stuff). When she's not scoping out ...

In 2019, Mark Zuckerberg kicked off the project to merge Facebook Messenger, Instagram DMs, and WhatsApp. Last year, the company started unifying Instagram and Messenger by allowing you to message ...

It's a socially distant world, but that doesn't mean we can't be social. Video chatting apps exploded in popularity in 2020 as the world tries to sit the coronavirus pandemic out in the comfort of ...

Facebook introduced the concept of floating circles for its Messenger app on Android and it was one of the earliest divisive features of the social network. That UI has persisted and has, in fact, ...

Facebook on Thursday announced that users will now be able to create group messages across both Facebook Messenger and Instagram DMs. The new cross-app communication features will allow users to start ...

Facebook just moved one step closer toward its goal of allowing users to swap messages across Messenger, WhatsApp and Instagram. Today, the company announced that it's rolling out a new version of ...

Chat bots were central to Facebook Messenger’s strategy three years ago. Now they’re being hidden from view in the app along with games and businesses. Facebook Messenger is now removing the Discover ...

If you're staying close to home but still want to socialize, there's an app for that. Actually probably more than you know. Video chat apps are clearly seeing a spike on the app charts. Zoom, which is ...