Facebook Launches Video Calls And Group Chat Features

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Facebook Launches Video Chat With Skype: Talk To Friends Around The World Right From Facebook



Facebook’s founder and chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg announced a video calling feature that will be provided by Skype during a press conference at the company’s Palo Alto headquarters.

Video chat has been around for years now, but it's still not an everyday activity for most people.

Sometimes it's too difficult to set up, or the friends you want to talk to are on different services and therefore the two companies have teamed up to launch the new highly-anticipated feature which will allow its users to talk to each via video. So a few mont... .. .

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Teo

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Bring Your Social Network To Life: Skype Now Featuring Facebook Integration & Facebook Video Chat



Back in July, Facebook video calling powered by Skype was launched and this partnership between Skype and Facebook has reached yet another milestone today with the launch of Skype 5.4 Beta for Mac and Skype 5.7 Beta for Windows allowing you to conduct a Facebook-to-Facebook call from within Skype.

This new development in the Skype-Facebook partnership is the latest example of how Skype is removing communication barriers and making it easier to connect with friends, family and business colleagues.

Our approach to social is about personal connections with people. We are on a mission to connect over one billion people and our continued partnership with Facebook brings us one ste... .. .

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Sincerely yours,
Teo