Tag: Telegram
Telegram CEO announces new features to platform after arrest
Telegram CEO Pavel Durov has announced new features to the platform.
The changes come after his release from prison last week.
Durov was arrested...
Telegram CEO arrested in Paris
Pavel Durov, the Russian-French billionaire founder and CEO of the Telegram messaging app, was arrested at Bourget airport outside Paris on Saturday evening, TF1 TV and BFM...
Telegram has become a hotbed of disinformation and fake news
Minutes after Slovakia’s Russia-friendly Prime Minister Robert Fico was shot, social media was awash with conspiracy theories.
The attacker’s wife was a refugee from Ukraine. He...
Stablecoin payments coming to the Telegram app
Tether, the issuer of the world’s most used stablecoin, has teamed up with TON Foundation to allow customers to send crypto payments using the popular...
Telegram to hit a billion users within a year, founder says
The Telegram messaging app, one of the most popular social media platforms in Ukraine and Russia, will likely cross a billion active monthly users...
Telegram challenges Meta with the launch of new ‘Business’ features and...
Messaging app Telegram is preparing to take on Meta’s WhatsApp and Messenger with a new set of features aimed at businesses as well as...
Yahoo acquires Instagram co-founders’ AI-powered news startup Artifact
Yahoo is acquiring Artifact, the AI-powered news app from Instagram’s co-founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger, the company announced on Tuesday.
The financial terms of the...
Telegram hits 900 million users and nears profitability as founder mulls...
Pavel Durov, the owner of Telegram, has said that the secretive messaging app has reached 900 million users and is rapidly approaching profitability as...
TikTok, Telegram, IXBet banned in Somalia over ‘horrific’ content, misinformation
TikTok, messaging app Telegram and online-betting website 1XBet have been banned in Somalia to limit the spread of indecent content and propaganda, its communications...
Telegram users can now send cryptocurrency through TON blockchain spinoff
Telegram now lets users send Toncoin, the cryptocurrency built off of Telegram’s abandoned blockchain effort, directly from chats within the messaging app (via Protocol).
In...