SAN FRANCISCO — You already chat with friends on Facebook Messenger. Now Messenger wants you to chat with businesses and get updates from them, too. That's the future Facebook pitched Tuesday at f8, ...

The technology behind the snazzy new “bots” Facebook is rolling out for its Messenger chat app has enormous potential to internalize payments within social media experiences like shopping, travel and ...

Facebook Messenger will soon get a lot more crowded. There are more than 10,000 developers building bots for Facebook's messaging platform, Messenger's head of product said in an interview Tuesday.

Apps are old school. Bots are the future. “Conversational UIs” will replace the web. That, in a nutshell, is the thinking behind a developer gold rush happening right now. Facebook announced bots for ...

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Facebook has bold ambitions for its Messenger platform, following the announcement of new features, services and the launch of bots—chat-based interfaces designed to simulate human conversation and to ...

Facebook Messenger is launching appointment booking for the Messenger bot platform today. The feature will be available for Messenger's 300,000 bots and could help spur bot adoption among the 40 ...