The Messenger, a news website that pledged to shake up the media industry with a playbook borrowed from the doomed publishing start-ups of yesteryear, will be closing down. In an email to staff, the ...

Money-bleeding start-up The Messenger — the news site that launched to great fanfare last May — shut down after less than a year in “the Titanic of publishing disasters.” The startup was scrubbed of ...

Meta will officially shut down its stand-alone Messenger desktop apps for Windows and Mac on December 15. That means if you try to log into Messenger on your computer after that date, you'll be ...

The Messenger, a digital news outlet that launched in May 2023, had grand plans. Its founder spoke often about a desire to not just build a thriving newsroom but to restore trust in media itself with ...

Aaron covers what's exciting and new in the world of home entertainment and streaming TV. Previously, he wrote about entertainment for places like Rotten Tomatoes, Inverse, TheWrap and The Hollywood ...

In the ever-evolving landscape of media startups, The Messenger's recent demise sheds light on the critical disparities between running a media venture and a tech startup. I've reached out to some ...

Katelyn is a writer with CNET covering artificial intelligence, including chatbots, image and video generators. Her work explores how new AI technology is infiltrating our lives, shaping the content ...

Facebook has bold ambitions for its Messenger platform, following the announcement of new features, services and the launch of bots—chat-based interfaces designed to simulate human conversation and to ...