At its F8 developer conference, Facebook unveiled a new Messenger platform that allows developers to build bots inside Facebook Messenger. Bots are hot; they could even be the future. At its a heart, ...

Facebook is doing everything it can to increase the popularity of Messenger and to make every Facebook user use it. Recently, Facebook introduced features like sending money, booking Uber cabs (mostly ...

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Facebook today launched two powerful ways for people to find Messenger bots to use, addressing the discovery problem that’s plagued the platform’s 100,000 developers. TechCrunch reported last month ...

Everybody knows that 2016 is the year of virtual reality, but what no one realized until a few weeks ago is it’s also turning into the year of the bots. Microsoft is adding bots to its platform, and ...

Facebook just moved one step closer toward making its bot ambitions a reality. Just months after introducing the first bots for Facebook Messenger at F8, the social network now counts more than 11,000 ...

SAN JOSE — Last year Facebook Messenger oversold how soon chat bots would be able to carry on a human-like conversation to respond to your every need. This year at Facebook's annual F8 conference for ...

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Spotify will be launching a bot for Facebook Messenger users that lets friends discover and share music directly in their chats. The bot, which takes advantage of Facebook’s soon-to-launch chat ...

LOS ANGELES — At its annual conference for software developers in 2016, Facebook trumpeted chat bots as the next big thing in tech. A year later, users of Facebook Messenger are still waiting. Chat ...