Facebook helping companies to build Messenger bots: report

Facebook has been slowly adding to Messenger’s capabilities over the past year or so, launching features that allow users to chat to businesses directly, exchanging information like delivery times and receipts.
Facebook is giving select third-parties access to development tools that allows them to build their own bots for Messenger, creating virtual chat partners that can automatically respond to customers’ queries, returning information, images, and even processing payments, a medi