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 ...

CNN and NBCUniversal’s Fandango are among the first in the media and entertainment biz to tap into Facebook Messenger “bots,” which let users get automated info from artificial-intelligence agents.

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.

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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 ...

Hoping to usher in a new age of communication and commerce, Facebook is officially inviting brands and other businesses to build bots for its Messenger service. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg made the ...

There has been a lot of talk about Facebook’s new Messenger bots — but how and why do you actually use them? "Business communication is what a lot of people dread the most,” says Peter Martinazzi, ...

Real estate listing company Trulia brought its bot to Facebook Messenger today. Although the company may be best known for listing property for sale, the Trulia bot will now begin handling rentals, as ...