He said the project had been developed at the 40-person Seattle office, Facebook's only major engineering centre outside of its Palo Alto, California headquarters. Mr Zuckerberg said during a visit to Facebook's Seattle office last week that the company had an imminent launch, but revealed scant details.

The partnership would bring Facebook closer to Microsoft, which is one of its shareholders after investing $240m in the company in 2007 and bought Skype for $8.5 billion in May. That then opens up a screen which sends a message saying that someone is trying to call and gives the person at the other end of the line the option of accepting or declining the call.įriends can then chat to one another, just like on Skype, but without any need for email addresses or passwords to be entered.

Users then open the chat box with the person the wish to speak and then click on a small 'video' icon at the top of the chat box next to the 'settings' icon.

Skype on Facebook chat is very easy to use - particularly if you are already adept at speaking to people through the instant messaging service.īefore getting started you will have to go to /videocalling and click the application to allow video calling.

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