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San Francisco: Telegram CEO Pavel Durov blamed Apple for its obscure App Store review process that is delaying the encrypted messaging platform from releasing an update to its app that will “revolutionise how people express themselves in messaging”. In his Telegram channel, Durov said the upcoming update had been stuck in Apple’s “review” for two weeks. […]

New Delhi: Encrypted messaging platform Telegram has announced paid subscription on its platform that is likely to cost around $5 (about Rs 400) a month. The company said that it now has over 700 million monthly active users (MAUs) and has become one of the top-five downloaded apps worldwide this year. “This growth is solely […]

New Delhi: Popular social media platform Snapchat is working on paid subscriptions for users as it struggles to make money after Apple introduced tough rivacy changes. Called Snapchat Plus, the paid subscription service is currently in “early internal testing,” reports The Verge. “We’re doing early internal testing of Snapchat Plus, a new subscription service for […]

Moscow: Russian gas giant Gazprom has announced that it will shut down another turbine engine on the Nord Stream 1 natural gas pipeline, thus significantly reducing the amount of gas delivery to Europe. “As Germany’s Siemens, the manufacturer of the gas turbine engines, failed to provide the overhaul service in time, Gazprom decided to stop […]

New Delhi: Global instant messenger platform Telegram has joined hands with the Government of Brazil to work towards curbing fake news and false information propagation, in the country. President Jair Bolsonaro met the Vice president of Telegram Ilya Perekopsky and the legal representative of the messaging app in Brazil, Alan Thomaz at Palacio do Planalto. […]

San Francisco: Instant messaging platform Telegram’s founder Pavel Durov has officially announced that a subscription-based offering, Telegram Premium, will be coming later this month. Durov said that the new paid offer will go “above and beyond” what Telegram currently offers, reports 9To5Google. Much of what spurred the decision to introduce Telegram Premium was the demands of […]

San Francisco: After the encrypted messaging app Telegram previously gave up on its own token, it now supports crypto payments. According to Protocol, the addition could make crypto payments on messaging platforms more mainstream. The TON Foundation, which manages the toncoin token, has enabled fee-free payments, sending crypto to other users, using toncoin (TON) in the […]

Hyderabad: The Hyderabad Police detained a youngster from Falaknuma for his alleged involvement in suspicious activities related to terrorism, police said here on Saturday. The suspect, a resident of Falaknuma in the old city, was allegedly attracting and influencing youth towards terrorism through social media posts on Instagram, Telegram and other channels. Sources said he […]

San Francisco: Brazil has lifted its ban on Telegram after the country’s Supreme Court blocked the messaging app for failing to comply with court orders. “Considering that the (court’s requested changes) were fully attended to, I revoke the decision to fully and completely suspend the operation of Telegram in Brazil,” Justice Alexandre de Moraes wrote […]

The move comes at the time when President Jair Bolsonaro has been reportedly encouraging his base to follow him on Telegram as he is all set to seek re-election in October.

The Download Manager is new to Telegram and can be accessed from a logo in the search bar that pops up when you are downloading something. Within that area, one would see all downloads in one place.

Hyderabad: Two women were duped by cyber fraudsters in the city on Monday. In the first case, a woman was duped on pretext of marriage by a suspected Nigerian conman. The victim, who is a resident of Bowenpally, befriended the man after coming in contact with him over a dating website. The fraudster introduced himself […]

New Delhi: After ‘Sulli’ deal and ‘Bulli Bai’ aap, new controversy has emerged on social media where now Hindu women with derogatory words and photos are being targeted and bullied. This started with a Telegram app-based channel where highly derogatory posts about Hindu women were being uploaded. After the row on social media, the government […]

Telegram is also rolling out support for "Spoiler Alert" messages that blur out selected portions of text until a user clicks on the option.

New Delhi: Encrypted messaging app Telegram has started rolling out its latest monthly update for Android and iOS devices, adding numerous new features for users. Some significant features include protected content in groups and channels, deleting messages by date, log in via calls, and many others. “The new Protected Content feature will help creators protect […]

The update has enabled options to remove captions from media and hide sender names when forwarding, easy switch to unread channel without going back to chat list, and an improved sticker panel along with new animated emoji.

Video messages will also now come through at a higher resolution, and users can tap them for a larger view of the clip.

After a battle of words over Twitter with WhatsApp last week where Telegram took a jibe by tweeting a meme that suggested it was time to "bin" WhatsApp and its parent company Facebook

Researchers from the cybersecurity firm Check Point found evidence of forgeries of vaccine cards issued by the UK National Health Service and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Telegram CEO Pavel Durov made the announcement via a message posted to his official Telegram channel where he wrote "we will be adding a video dimension to our voice chats in May, making Telegram a powerful platform for group video calls".