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How Telegram became the Durov brothers’ weapon against surveillance

March 4, 2016 March 4, 2016

Speaking at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona in late February, Pavel Durov looked like a man in control. Dressed all in black — a nod to the character of Neo in the film The Matrix — Durov strode across the stage assertively. Like Neo, he was a programmer on a mission. Durov had come to Barcelona to announce that Telegram, the encrypted messaging service, had gathered 100 million monthly users and was gaining an impressive 350,000 …

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Messaging app Telegram passes 100 million monthly active users “with zero marketing budget”

February 24, 2016 February 24, 2016

Telegram, a messaging app launched by Pavel Durov less than three years ago, has passed 100 million monthly active users (MAUs), the company announced yesterday. Revealing the figure during a keynote at Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona, Durov also said that the service is now signing up 350,000 new users each day. Telegram users in 200 countries send 15 billion …

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Telegram is the “new hot thing among jihadists,” says cyber security expert

November 18, 2015 February 10, 2016

When ISIS terrorists want to hide what they’re saying, they are increasingly turning to an app called Telegram. It’s “the new hot thing among jihadists,” said Laith Alkhouri, director of Research at Flashpoint Global Partners. Telegram, an international instant messenger founded by Pavel Durov in 2013, boasts two layers of encryption and claims to be “faster and more …

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Telegram now seeing 12 billion daily messages, up from 1 billion in February

September 22, 2015 February 14, 2016

Pro-privacy secure messaging app Telegram is seeing some impressive usage growth this year. Here at TechCrunch Disrupt SF founder Pavel Durov revealed on stage the platform is now seeing 12 billion messages sent daily — up from two billion back in May, and 1 billion in February. Its monthly active users figure remains around 60 million, as it was in May, so the …

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Snapchat acquires Looksery in reported $150 million deal

September 16, 2015 February 14, 2016

Yesterday Snapchat announced the launch of “Lenses,” a new feature that enables users to create a variety face effects while making selfies. These augmented reality filters will allow you to change eye or skin color, alter your face to remove blemishes or look thinner. Behind these new types of avatars is a technology developed by Looksery, a startup originated from Odessa, Ukraine, with offices in …

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Now attracting more than 60 million users worldwide, Telegram is exposed to competitors’ complaints and large-scale DDOS attacks

August 10, 2015 February 16, 2016

In the middle of July the Telegram messenger created by Pavel Durov, founder of Russia’s largest social network, Vkontakte, was subjected to a series of large-scale DDOS attacks. They caused the application to breakdown all over the world. Shortly before, the application had been deleted from the Google Play store for several hours due to complaints …

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Russia’s VKontakte to launch rival to Instagram

July 23, 2015 July 23, 2015

Russian social network VKontakte is on the verge of releasing a mobile application along the lines of popular photo-sharing service Instagram, news agency RBC reported earlier this month, citing two unidentified people familiar with the company’s plans. VKontakte applied to Apple a few days ago to have the application distributed through the U.S. tech giant’s …

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Russia’s best Twitter parody accounts

May 8, 2015 February 24, 2016

Twitter has blocked a satirical account ridiculing Igor Sechin, the powerful head of state-owned Russian oil giant Rosneft and a long time confidant of Russian president Vladimir Putin. The account, @Igor_Sechin, was blocked inside Russia after the state media watchdog Roskomnadzor complained to Twitter that it violated Russian privacy laws. Frequently obscene and ferociously critical of the Kremlin, @Igor_Sechin is among a handful of popular Russian-language Twitter parody …

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Pavel Durov: “The Russian tech environment became much less liberal, losing freedom as one of its competitive advantages”

April 6, 2015 February 25, 2016

“Facebook is losing traction within the younger generation,” Vkontakte founder and former CEO Pavel Durov told UK magazine Dazed, while Telegram, the messenger which he created in, now attracts 50 million users worldwide. Presenting himself as an advocate of political freedom and tech individualism, Durov also shared his thoughts about Russia’s latest evolutions and his dream …

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Pavel Durov has cloned Telegram

July 29, 2014 July 29, 2014

Pavel Durov seems to be creating a competitor of his own instant messenger, Telegram, if judging by a new version – christened Telegram HD – which appeared in the Apple AppStore on July 21. The app is registered to the company Telegram Messenger LLP and all links to the Telegram app for iPhone on the messenger’s official website lead …

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Viber opens representative office in Russia

July 7, 2014 July 7, 2014

Viber, the expanding international instant messenging and voice call app, will soon open a representative office in Russia, Russian business daily Vedomosti learned from the company’s co-founder and CTO Igor Magazinnik. The small office will be in charge of service localization and local partnerships. Former Diageo and Red Bull CMO Evgenyi Roshchupkin has been appointed …

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Pavel Durov’s Telegram wins “Fastest Rising Startup” award at The Europas

June 12, 2014 June 12, 2014

Telegram, an instant messaging startup launched less than one year ago by Pavel Durov, was honored earlier this week in Berlin at the finale of The Europas, a contest for technology startups that attracted companies from all over the world. Built in St Petersburg, the startup is now based “on a plane,” Pavel Durov says. The app has exploded onto …

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