A strong desert wind is blowing my hair into my face and taking the breath right out of my lungs, and I am hurrying toward the Las Vegas Strip, because it is Friday night at Def Con, the giant hacker ...

Facebook is launching Watch Party, its new format for viewing videos with a group, after about half a year of testing it. Watch Party, which lets people watch videos together in the digital equivalent ...

Facebook’s Live Videos tend to see higher levels of engagement than pre-recorded videos and now Facebook is aiming to bring more of that interaction to any video with Watch Party. After testing began ...

Facebook began testing its Watch Party feature in January, enabling members of a group to view videos together—Live or recorded—comment on them and react to them. On Wednesday, the social network ...

What do you get when you cross an online chat room with streaming video? A Facebook watch party. The social-network colossus has begun testing the watch party feature, which works with both Facebook ...

Facebook is doubling down on “Watch Party,” expanding the social-video feature to all publishers and users worldwide — which Facebook says delivers far higher engagement levels than solo sessions.