Facebook and Skype Partner on ‘Video Calling’

Facebook Partners with Skype on 'Video Calling' — Mark Zuckerberg at Wednesday's Facebook press conference

Facebook is lastly getting a dose of video calling thanks to Skype.

The inexperient feature article is now live, and allows Facebook friends to initiate video calls with unity or ii clicks. Although Skype is powering the picture calls, the app is installed directly in the Browser and requires no other programs to download.

The video chat choice testament come along equally an icon in Facebook's schmoose windowpane and happening each user's profile page. Users can now visit a telecasting calling page on Facebook to bestir oneself.

Facebook telecasting chat lacks frills. Unlike the Hangouts sport that Google introduced alongside Google+, there's no group picture chat choice, nor is there any way to follow videos together along early sites, such as YouTube.

But in a press conference, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg didn't seem concerned about missing features. He notable that Facebook has spent the last five years building its social infrastructure, which stands at 750 million active users, and now Facebook is more than focused on adding new applications than ontogenesis its substance abuser base. Compared its social infrastructure to the challenger, Zuckerberg said "we're days ahead in wiring it up."

To that end, Zuckerberg said the orgasm weeks and months will see many novel product launches from Facebook. Nowadays, the company also introduced group chat, which lets users cobble together quick text natter sessions with their friends.

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Zuckerberg also had kind words for Microsoft, which in May announced plans to acquire Skype, and owns a minority stake in Facebook.

"Directly that you guys are owned by Microsoft, that gives America a sense of stability that you're going to be with a company that we can trust," Zuckerberg said. (Skype CEO Tony Bates clarified that the acquisition hasn't gone finished yet.)

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