Facebook Entering New Waters: Working On Virtual Assistant- 'MoneyPenny'


BANGALORE: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerburg at the annual conference F8 has introduced an array of new features to improve the social experience along with a boost to the messenger platform. Acclimatizing to the competition in the messenger platform with other contender, Facebook introduced a slew of improvements to improve its prominence.

If seen recently, Facebook has paralleled many lanes by stepping into cash transfer, and gaming section. According to the recent trend in the market, buzz is on digital voice assistant of which the main leads are Microsoft’s Cortana, Apple’s Siri, Google’s Google Now. And now from the latest news as reported by NDTV, Facebook is working on developing its own Virtual Assistant naming it MoneyPenny (may be after the iconic character in James Bond’s movies).

Unlike the others Facebook’s MoneyPenny will be answered by real people unlike the machine voice the other companies have. The date of its release or any further details of it are unknown, but this is a new chapter opened by Facebook to stay ahead.

And Facebook is not the only one who is into developing virtual assistant, even Yahoo CEO Marissa Meyer expressed interest and said “the company is looking to use mobile search to offer personalized results, and pulling in context for the user.”

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