08Russian software developer and founder of messaging app Telegram, Pavel Durov, has once again found himself at the center of a scandal: Talmon Marco, creator of the popular communication app Viber, has accused Durov of plagiarism. Stickers are the subject matter of the scandal: Marco is confident that the design of Telegram stickers was “borrowed”…
25Telegram update for iOS and Android Probably at least once in a lifetime everybody has attempted to search for a link that was sent to a chat. Everybody knows that this is a hell of a job. Searching through message history is one way of doing it. But now the Russian Telegram chat app has…
17Is Telegram setting records? Russian messenger Telegram, created in 2013 by the founder of the VK Russian social network Pavel Durov and his less famous brother Nikolai, is celebrating a 2-year anniversary. In this regard, the company decided to share its statistics and published a new record in its blog – 10 billion messages from…
13Is Telegram secure or not? Russian Telegram is positioning itself as the most secure messaging app. All chat history is stored in the cloud, and secret chat’s encryption is upgrading constantly, giving users a possibility for private communication. But the British online publisher NEUROGADGET recently have put a doubt in Russian Telegram’s impeccable reputation. Telegram’s…
29Now you can record messages for chat apps in Google Now The Google Now update has enabled users of Android smartphones and tablets to send voice messages to apps of third-party developers. The way it used to be, when a user asked the service to send a message to a friend, Google Now did it…
22Will GetGems and Telegram cooperate on bots? We have already mentioned many a time in our articles that chatbots are extremely popular among users. It has recently been reported that Facebook Messenger is working on a virtual customer assistant that would help users make purchases. Today GetGems wrote in its official blog that the Russian Telegram…
17New version of the Russian Telegram app for iOS and Android Russian Telegram messenger app has released new updates for its versions on Android and iOS. Two new features have been added: viewing and listening to media files without leaving the app and a search in chats. SoundCloud, Vimeo, and Youtube are the services whose media…
15Facebook Messenger Catches Up with Asian Competitors Facebook Messenger offers its users a wide set of functions – messaging, file sharing, stickers and even allows to make money transfer to users’ friends, for example, if your friend has paid for dinner at a restaurant or booked cinema tickets for a new movie, which you plan…
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13Telegram in the South East Asia, Oceania, and Australia was unavailable Since Friday morning and throughout the whole weekend the users of the Russian Telegram in the South East Asia, Oceania, and Australia were unable to use the app. This was caused by a DDoS attack to the messenger’s regional servers. As of Monday morning, the…