Facebook Messenger doubles down on bots, after slow startMessenger will now have a tab highlighting businesses that people can connect with. Part of that was on purpose, says David Marcus, head of Facebook Messenger. Messenger has started to display more basic ads too, on the main page with users' chat histories. Marcus says the business will start to get more interesting, in part, because people are using Messenger more frequently. The tool used to be part of the main Facebook product, where people associated it with contacting Facebook friends, instead of with texting.

Source: Stuff April 19, 2017 01:30 UTC