Facebook's annual F8 developer conference on Tuesday promises to put a focus on the company's messaging apps as the social network shifts toward privacy.
, the two-day event in San Jose, California, will feature more than a dozen sessions focused on Messenger, including one titled "Deep Dive on Messenger Updates," which will be led by two software engineers. Liron Wand, the head of partnerships for Messenger, and Mohit Rajani, the lead product manager for Messenger monetization, are leading a session called "Using Messenger to Drive Business Results.
Facebook uses F8 each year as a setting to announce some of its new key product and feature releases. Last year, the company announced the sale of the Oculus Go virtual-reality headset, a dating feature and clear history, a still-to-be-released tool that will let users erase the data Facebook has on them.
than sharing with a big network, and it allows the company to provide encryption for those communications. But Zuckerberg knows the company has to grow its share of the mobile messaging market for that to work. Zuckerberg said Wednesday that Facebook already has a strong foundation with WhatsApp and Messenger, but still "in the United States, in Japan, we're not the leading private communications service today.
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