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What’s one billion users when you can go after two billion? Facebook announced on Monday a slimmed down version of its popular messaging app called Messenger Lite, designed for users with slower ...

Phil is a freelance writer from the UK, studying Creative Writing at university. When he's not writing, Phil is usually fiddling about with his phone, tweeting, or obsessing over anything with four ...

Once upon a time, Facebook’s Messenger app was just a way to send chat message to your friends. Over the years the social network has loaded the app with features like the ability send GIFs, play ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Facebook is launching a "lite" version of its Messenger chat app. It is aimed at emerging markets, where many people use older phones that don't have enough room to store or ability to ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Facebook has announced the launch of Messenger Lite, a "slimmed down" and stripped back version ...

Meta is no longer going to support Messenger Lite—the basic version of its chat app for Android devices. As 9To5Google reports, the Messenger Lite app has already been removed from Google's Play Store ...

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Mark Zuckerberg-led Facebook recently unveiled many new, innovative features like live video and polls among many other things, yet in a totally opposite approach, this toned down version of the ...

Facebook is launching a “lite” version of it Messenger chat app. It is aimed at emerging markets, where many people use older phones that don’t have enough room to store or ability to run the ...