Facebook Messenger is testing a digital assistant that will help you buy

Now you can use Facebook to pay Messenger your friends and chat with some merchants, but the network may soon also allow ordering products and investigate local services from within the application.

Messenger is developing a digital assistant, according to a report on the information on Monday. This would allow users to connect with "real people" in the service, who seek and ask for products as well as perform other tasks. The service the name of the reliable secretary James Bond franchise is now called Moneypenny in Facebook, according to the report.
Little else is known about Moneypenny at the moment, but its apparent dependence of the people on the other end to help users Messenger means that operate unlike Siri and Cortana, who can offer many similar features, but are much more automated in their approach.
The Messenger team is trying to find ways for people to spend more time in your application. Last year, Facebook Frusto some users when Messenger made a mandatory unloading as part of what Mark Zuckerberg called a "family of applications."
Messenger currently reports more than 700 million monthly active users, while it had 500 million last fall, but that figure could be much higher. Assuming Facebook lanze Moneypenny, will join the many adjustments and updates made during the past eight months, including payments peer-to-peer, the possibility of talks with retailers and third-party development.

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