TECH CRUNCH - Telegram's new update introduces a redesigned call interface with dynamic backgrounds based on call status, conserving phone battery and improving functionality on older devices. The update also includes enhanced call quality and plans for further improvements in 2024. Telegram's bot platform receives updates allowing bots to react to messages, manage reactions, quotes, and links, and gather information about giveaways and boosts in channels. Additionally, the vaporize animation, introduced earlier, is now available for both iOS and Android users, adding a playful touch when deleting messages.
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Telegram's Latest Update Enhances Calls and Bot Platform, Prioritizing Battery Efficiency
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Telegram Aims at WhatsApp's Dominance With New Feature
READ WRITE - Telegram introduces updates to its channels, offering customization options and performance analytics. Discovery tools recommend channels based on user interests, and premium users can "boost" channels for enhanced capabilities. Boosted channels gain features like ephemeral stories and detailed analytics. The move is seen as a response to WhatsApp's growing Channels feature, with Telegram aiming to attract and empower channel owners.
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Telegram Still Leaks User IP Addresses to Contacts
TECH CRUNCH - Telegram, a popular messaging app with 700M users worldwide, continues to leak user IP addresses during voice calls. The default use of peer-to-peer connections for voice calls necessitates both parties to know each other's IP addresses, which can lead to leaks. To avoid this, users must change their settings to avoid peer-to-peer connections.
by Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai
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Telegram Starts to Look Like a Super App, Echoing WeChat
TECH CRUNCH - Telegram is moving closer to adopting an ecosystem strategy similar to WeChat's super app approach. The platform is developing a super app platform that allows third-party developers to build mini apps for user interaction, mirroring WeChat's functionality. To build this ecosystem, Telegram collaborates with infrastructure partners from both the tech and crypto sectors. The Open Network (TON) Foundation, a crypto partner, has partnered with Tencent Cloud to support the TON blockchain and help build Telegram's super app platform.
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Telegram Introduces Self-Custodial Crypto Wallet, Excludes US Users
TECH CRUNCH - Telegram, the popular chat app with 800M MAUs, is launching a self-custodial crypto wallet named TON Space worldwide, except for the US. This move aims to strengthen Telegram's position in the crypto community and potentially onboard more users into the cryptocurrency space. The wallet is based on The Open Network (TON), developed by The Open Network Foundation (TON Foundation), and offers secure cryptocurrency storage.
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Telegram Rolls out Its Stories Feature to All Users
TECH CRUNCH - Telegram unveils Stories for all users, allowing editing after posting. Unlike other platforms, users can modify captions, visibility, stickers, and more without reposting. The Stories feature accompanies conventional functions such as viewing, hiding, and setting expiration times for stories.
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Telegram Introduces Stories for Premium Users
TECH CRUNCH - Telegram launches its Stories feature for Premium users, allowing them to share stories with customizable privacy settings and various creative options. The company listened to user requests, despite being initially hesitant to add the feature, and plans to roll it out to non-Premium users in the future.
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Telegram Raises $210M Through Bond Sales
TECH CRUNCH - Telegram, the messaging app with ~800M users, raised $210M through bond sales, with founder Pavel Durov personally investing a significant amount. The funds aim to bring Telegram closer to profitability and address the slowing economy's challenges affecting public market listings.
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Telegram Is Adding Stories Next Month
TECH CRUNCH - Telegram CEO Pavel Durov has announced that the messaging app will launch Stories in early July, fulfilling a long-standing user request. Users will have control over their story visibility, with options to share with everyone, contacts, selected individuals, or close friends. Stories will be conveniently located at the top of the chat list, and users can hide stories by moving them to a "Hidden" list. Stories can be set to expire or permanently displayed like Instagram's Story highlights.
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Telegram Has Rolled out 10 New Major Features
ECONOMIC TIMES - Telegram has rolled out more updates for Apple users that improve the user experience on the platform. The latest update for iOS users brings 10 new major features to the application. One of the key features that the instant-messaging platform has rolled out gives users the ability to translate entire chats. Telegram has also rolled out a new feature called Profile Picture Maker which allows users to turn any sticker or animated emoji into a profile picture for their accounts, or group and channels icon.
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Telegram Surpasses WhatsApp Traffic Volume in Russia
THE MOSCOW TIMES - Telegram has for the first time overtaken WhatsApp in traffic volume in Russia with experts predicting the Russian-founded messenger will also surpass the user count of its Meta-owned competitor this year. Telegram accounted for 60-80% of total traffic exchanged in Russia by the start of 2023 and has continued to grow since then. Telegram's DAUs totaled 48.8M people, or ~40% of Russia's internet users, in Jan 2023, compared to WhatsApp's 76M DAUs.
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Telegram Hack Exposes Growing Russian Cyber Threat in Moldova
BALKAN INSIGHT - A potentially damaging leak of alleged private Telegram conversations involving the president of Moldova and 2 cabinet ministers has further underscored the seriousness of the cyber threat that Chisinau says comes from Russia. The ministers and the office of pro-European President Maia Sandu say the content of the alleged conversations is fake, but Iurie Turcanu, Moldova's deputy prime minister in charge of digitalization, said the attacks themselves are real and increasingly sophisticated.
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Telegram Is Auctioning Phone Numbers to Let Users Sign up Without Any SIM
TECH CRUNCH - Telegram is now putting anonymous numbers up for bidding on the auction. These numbers could be used to sign up for Telegram without needing any SIM card. People can buy these virtual numbers on Fragment, a site specially created for Telegram-related auctions.
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Telegram Premium Tops 1M Subscribers
TECH CRUNCH - Telegram Premium has amassed ~1M subscribers, less than 6 months after it was launched. The app, used by ~700M MAUs, launched Premium in late June, offering customers a range of additional features such as the ability to send files as large as 4 GB and faster downloads. The monthly subscription costs $6 ~$5 in the U.S. and the UK, and $2.2 in emerging markets such as India.
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Telegram Announces Username Auctions on TON Blockchain
TECH CRUNCH - Telegram announced that will it hold an auction for usernames - for both individual accounts and channels - through a marketplace built on top of the TON blockchain. Telegram and TON Foundation are using a separate website Fragment.com as a hub for these auctions. Users will be able to log into the site using Telegram, the tonkeeper app, or their TON-based wallets.
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