Back in 2014, Facebook introduced an app called Rooms, which allowed people to pseudonymously start and join interest-based public chats. However, it didn’t garner much traction and was shut down in ...

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Facebook has built a new feature codenamed “Host Chat” that lets people set up chat rooms their friends can join without an invitation, a source familiar with the feature tells us. I’ve contacted ...

Facebook Goes After Zoom With 'Messenger Rooms' Video Chat The real standout feature is how your Messenger Room can live on your Facebook profile, enabling friends or family members to spontaneously ...

You can use Facebook's Portal — a webcam-like device that records high-quality video and audio — to video chat with friends through Facebook and WhatsApp. The Portal is designed to sit plugged in on a ...

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Facebook Messenger allows group video chat for up to 50 people. Here is how you can setup Messenger room and video chat with multiple participants. With Video chat becoming an essential software for ...

Facebook launched Thursday an anonymous chat room app called Rooms, the latest creation to emerge from the company’s initiative to design more apps connecting people in different ways. The free app, ...

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Facebook just announced 50-person video chatrooms called Messenger Rooms. The new Messenger Rooms have some features in common with other video calling apps, like Zoom and Houseparty. The company says ...

Facebook is co-opting some of the top video chat innovations like Zoom’s gallery view for large groups and Houseparty’s spontaneous hangouts for a new feature called Rooms. It could usher in a new era ...

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 ...