The multi-year agreement will be expanded later to include Facebook Messenger, Universal Music Group said.

But they are increasingly in favor of Facebook, which now has three apps with more than 1 billion monthly active users, and Google, which has seven, most recently Gmail.

SECURITY experts today will reveal a major flaw in Facebook Messenger that is set to have major legal ramifications, including judicial decisions being sent back to the appeal court and commercial agreements sent into disarray.

Fresh off its stellar earnings report, which owed much to its remarkable mobile performance, Facebook is giving a little focus back to the desktop.