After 20 years of service, AOL said it is discontinuing its pioneering Instant Messenger chat platform. An article on AOL's website posted Friday says AOL Instant Messenger will be discontinued on Dec ...

Welp, the days of being able to sign up for Facebook's Messenger service without also being a member of the social network are apparently over. If you have friends and family members who have been ...

With reports that Facebook was looking to acquire popular cross-platform messaging service Whatsapp just about settling down, the social network now appears to be taking it on directly and has opened ...

Ian Sherr (he/him/his) grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area, so he's always had a connection to the tech world. As an editor at large at CNET, he wrote about Apple, Microsoft, VR, video games and ...

AOL Instant Messenger has set up an away message -- permanently. Continue Reading Below The messaging service, also called AIM, is shutting down Dec. 15. AOL Instant Messenger, which is now owned by ...

These days, a lot of people prefer messaging over receiving phone calls as a form of communication. It's arguably the easier and less intrusive of the two methods and provides the recipient of the ...

Today Facebook unveiled Messenger Kids, a new kids-only version of Messenger for children under 13 who aren’t old enough to have a Facebook account of their own but still want to chat with friends and ...

Rolling back a feature it introduced in 2015, Facebook Inc. has quietly removed the ability to sign up for its Messenger chat service without a Facebook account. VentureBeat was first to report the ...

Microsoft on Tuesday started mass emailing its 100 million+ Messenger users to let them know that the service is officially being retired on March 15, 2013. On that date, all users will be migrated to ...

Starbucks's "Good Vibe Messenger" is a text-messaging service that sends inspirational messages, media (images and audio), and coupon codes to users who subscribe. Once you sign up, you get to choose ...

AOL Instant Messenger has set up an away message -- permanently. The messaging service, also called AIM, is shutting down later this year, the once-popular chat platform announced Friday through ...