Articles written by Barbara Ortutay Michael Liedtke Ap Technology Writers

BARBARA ORTUTAY MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writers

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Facebook unveiled a new messaging platform Monday that takes aim at one of the Internet's first applications, e-mail. Though CEO Mark Zuckerberg didn't go as far as declaring e-mail dead, he sees the four-decade-old technology as secondary to more seamless, faster ways of communicating such as text messages and chats. In other words, Facebook is betting that today's high school students are on to something. "We don't think a modern messaging system is going to be e-mail," Zuckerberg said at a special even...