On Sunday, April 22, paper planes started gliding through the sky from tower blocks in Moscow. The planes used in the small-scale protest mimicked the logo of encrypted messaging service Telegram. The ...

Earlier today, word leaked that Google had sat down with Telegram back in 2015 to navigate a $1 billion acquisition. Now the Russian messaging app’s CEO Pavel Durov is telling reporters that no such ...

Popular enrcrypted messaging app Telegram is banned in Russia. In an effort to block citizens’ access to Telegram, Russia blocks Google services as well. This forces Google’s hand to either stand ...

Update: In a comment made to TNW, a Telegram spokesperson denied all acquisition rumors with a strongly-worded rebuttal. “This is complete bullshit. There were no acquisition talks, no plans for any ...

UPDATE April 17, 7.45am PDT: The number of blocked IP addresses appears to have shot up on Tuesday, due to new ranges being added to the blacklist. Meanwhile, Interfax reports that Roskomnadzor, the ...

Yelp is taking Google on, Telegram falls foul of EU regulators, and retail media spend growing.. Yelp is taking on Google in a legal showdown. Yelp is suing Google, claiming the tech giant uses its ...

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Google has claimed that it has been irreparably harmed by the scams, which trick users into sharing credit card information ...

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When the Iranian hacking group APT35 wants to know if one of its digital lures has gotten a bite, all it has to do is check Telegram. Whenever someone visits one of the copycat sites they’ve set up, a ...

A shower of paper airplanes darted through the skies of Moscow and other towns in Russia today, as users answered the call of entrepreneur Pavel Durov to send the blank missives out of their windows ...

Google is no stranger to buying out companies. Over the years, they have purchased a large sum of companies ranging across plenty of different technology markets each with their own talents, and each ...