Viber is another great Messenger alternative that has been around for a long time. It’s my main messaging app, and I really like it, although I’ll admit that the Chinese ownership is a cause for ...

Anton Nemkin, a member of the Russian State Duma’s Information Policy Committee, said the idea that the country’s new ...

A Russian state-backed messenger application called MAX, a rival to WhatsApp that critics say could be used to track users, must be pre-installed on all mobile phones and tablets from next month, the ...

Facebook's recent effort to force people to adopt its standalone mobile messaging app has privacy-concerned users up in arms. Many of them believe the app is especially invasive. One blog from the ...

Messenger Kids was released in 2017 as a family-friendly messaging app. It provides additional safeguards and doesn't require a Facebook account.

Facebook is testing the ability for users to access their Messenger inbox within its mobile app. Facebook head Tom Alison said Tuesday that the company will expand the test soon as it looks for ...

Facebook might be putting Messenger back into its main social media app. The feature is currently in testing and would mean that you could use a single app to access both the social media platform ...

Facebook Messenger is getting a desktop app for Mac and Windows, addressing one of the biggest complaints about the IM platform, as the company meshes its three messaging services. Announced at F8 ...

At Facebook’s 2019 F8 developer conference, the company announced plans to introduce desktop apps for its popular communications app Messenger. Now, less than a year later, the Messenger Mac App ...