Yahoo is bringing its news, weather, and virtual pet services Facebook Messenger. “Starting today, you’ll be able to receive Yahoo’s news headlines and weather reports and even take care of a virtual pet monkey -- all through Facebook Messenger,” Venture Beat reports. “If you’re not already familiar with the MonkeyPets bot, you can send emojis to a virtual pet and it will share a selfie from its ‘travels.’”

Facebook just launched OpenCellular -- an open source hardware and software project designed to bring more affordable wireless access to remote areas. “One of the goals of the projects was to build a system with very little physical footprint and the ability to use already available infrastructure because the cost of the land, tower, power and security for setting up a cellular network is often higher than that of the actual access point itself,” TechCrunch reports.

Twitter just named Bret Taylor -- former chief technology officer at Facebook and an ex-Google employee -- to its board. “He’s currently the CEO of a startup called Quip, and had co-founded a startup called Friendfeed that once could have been described as sort-of a Twitter competitor,” Recode notes. Said Omid Kordestani, Twitter's executive chairman: “Bret brings to our Board a great mind for consumer products and technologies.”

Microsoft just launched Skype Meetings -- an audio and video conferencing tool for small businesses. “Skype Meetings is essentially a stripped down version of the Skype for Business solution,” TechCrunch reports. “The more fully featured Skype for Business product allows you to host meetings with up to 250 people and it’s deeply integrated into Outlook, Word and PowerPoint.”

IAC just sold Q&A-based social network Ask.fm to Noosphere, a tech-focused asset management firm. IAC had only owned Ask.fm since 2014. During that time, “IAC vowed to tackle cyber-bullying [that was associated with Ask.fm], but had faced criticism for allowing its users to continue posting anonymously,” BBC News notes. “California-based Noosphere’s other investments include the online gambling services Betcore and Murka, and the cybersecurity provider Cyber Safety Unity.”

Thanks to a new automatic translation feature, Facebook users will soon be able to post content in multiple languages. “The ‘multilingual composer’ … allows you to write a post in one language and then choose additional languages in which you would like it to be published,” The Verge reports. “The new composer, which will work for all permutations of the 45 languages Facebook currently translates, is beginning to roll out today.”