Facebook is taking on Zoom in a bid for a larger share of the video conferencing market by launching a new group video chat tool called Messenger Rooms. The service will launch “over the coming weeks, ...

Everyone wants to be in on the conversation, but sometimes distance can make in-person meetings hard. We tested five multiperson video chat services–Google Hangouts, Skype Premium, Tinychat, AV by AIM ...

Facebook Messenger allows group video chat for up to 50 people. Here is how you can setup Messenger room and video chat with multiple participants. With Video chat becoming an essential software for ...

is a Senior Producer on Decoder. Previously, he reported on the technology and gaming industries for more than a decade. Facebook’s new video chat product, Messenger Rooms, is now available to ...

Managing Editor Alison DeNisco Rayome joined CNET in 2019, and is a member of the Home team. She is a co-lead of the CNET Tips and We Do the Math series, and manages the Home Tips series, testing out ...

Facebook is co-opting some of the top video chat innovations like Zoom’s gallery view for large groups and Houseparty’s spontaneous hangouts for a new feature called Rooms. It could usher in a new era ...

From virtual cocktail hours to online classrooms, the COVID-19 pandemic has turned Zoom into everyone’s go-to social network. Now Facebook wants to kick the video-conferencing interloper off its turf.

Facebook today introduced Messenger Rooms, a competitor to Zoom’s videoconferencing service, which will let you host video gatherings with friends simply by sharing a link. Anyone will be able to join ...

Facebook is adding 50-person video chatrooms called Messenger Rooms. The new feature reflects how people have turned to video-calling to stay in contact amid the pandemic. And it's an attempt to ...

It seems like only yesterday we couldn’t get through a video chat for 10 minutes without either the connection dropping, someone’s screen freezing, or a major audio distortion, but the year is 2016 ...