The updated plugin will now allow customers to talk to businesses without being logged in, Facebook says. Until now the customer chat plugin, that allows customers to talk directly with a business on the business’s own website using the Messenger service, required the website visitors to be logged into Facebook, limiting adoption. Facebook Messenger's new chat plugin for business websites allows to reach non-Facebook usersįacebook is making it easier for businesses to leverage its Messenger service on their own websites. In addition, the Manage Rooms feature will let you view, join, edit or later delete the rooms you have created, or invite more people to join an existing Room.Ģ020. You can now create a Room with a default, suggested or custom activity, set a future start date and customize your audience selection. It will also make the ability to create a new Room more visible, by placing the option front and center in the Chats tab. The new version of Messenger Rooms will now display the Rooms you’ve been invited to up at the top of your Chats tab in your inbox to make them easier to find. Messenger Rooms, Facebook’s Zoom competitor, is rolling out new features aimed at making Rooms easier to both create and discover, as well as those for further personalizing your Rooms experience. Facebook updates Messenger Rooms to take on Zoom Although the company has faced pressure from governments to roll back its end-to-end encryption plans, Facebook is now extending this protection to both voice and video calls on Messenger, which means that “nobody else, including Facebook, can see or listen to what’s sent or said.” There's just one caveat: You have to choose to activate encryption, meaning your calls will theoretically be vulnerable to data hijinks unless you opt in to this new feature.Ģ020. End-to-end encryption (E2EE) - a security feature that prevents third-parties from eavesdropping on calls and chats - has been available for text conversations on Facebook’s flagship messaging service since 2016. Facebook is bringing end-to-end encryption to Messenger callsįacebook has extended the option of using end-to-end encryption for Facebook Messenger voice calls and video calls. The service is being launched first in two markets - Germany and Greece - with the plan being to extend that to the rest of Europe, and then Viber’s wider global footprint of 180 countries, this year and next.Ģ021. Services like payments to businesses likely will have some fees attached. Peer-to-peer transfers will be the first of these services to launch, and these will be free. Linked to other bank accounts as well as Visa and Mastercard, Payments wallets can in turn be used to make bill payments and buy goods, as well as transfer money to other individuals.
Viber, the messaging app owned by Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten, is launching Payments on Viber - a new service that will let users set up digital wallets tied to their Viber accounts. Messaging app Viber launches Payments - a new digital wallet
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