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2021-06-15 12:16:59 US IRS claims against secret Telegram chats

A special agent of the United States Internal Revenue Service said that secret chats are considered one of the ways to launder money.

First, the tax authorities drew attention to bitcoins, and then to the method of communication of potential criminals and suspects through Telegram.

Secret chats are the most worried about by the department now. Open / Comment

2021-06-09 18:37:35 Telegram audience research results in 2021

TG Stat conducted a study in which 70,000 people from Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and other countries participated.

The numbers that turned out:
61% - men, 39% - women
A third of users are in the 25-34 age range.
21% from 18 to 24 years old and the same amount from 35 to 44 years old.
18% over 45 and 7% of the audience under the age of 17.

22% of Telegram users work in IT.
20% in production and trade.
4 to 7% are engaged in marketing, education, services, finance, healthcare, or work in the media.

More than half of the respondents have higher education.

What are all these people doing in Telegram?

Half of users are subscribed to less than 15 channels.
33% of subscriptions have more than 25 channels.
A third of the respondents regularly read up to 5 channels and another third - from 6 to 10.

The most read channels write about news, they have 82%. Industry news is regularly read by 43% of respondents.
Entertainment, as well as political channels, are read by 59% of the audience. Education has almost the same number of regular readers.

80% of respondents use Telegram for personal correspondence.
38% communicate at work and another 17% correspond with clients.
50% of respondents read channels, 17% run their own channels.
35% answered that I use bots.

Most used features:
calls (54%)
voice messages (48%)
archive (44%)
folders (39%)
video messaging (33%)
video calls (28%)
participation in group voice chats (26%), 20% of users listen to audio broadcasts. Open / Comment

2021-06-03 15:11:03 Telegram collects more personal data of users

Like all other apps. At the request of Apple, Telegram has updated the list of the collected user data.

Previously, it had three items: contacts, contact details and identifiers. Added purchases, location, financial information and user generated content.

An updated list of collected information does not mean that Telegram can leak your credit card into the network. According to a source close to the development team, App Store moderators have their own specifics for evaluating data collection.

For example, if you can pay with a card through the application, it should be indicated that the data is being collected. At the same time, payment information is never transmitted to the Telegram server. Open / Comment

2021-06-01 19:37:44 Forgot to close the conversation on someone else's computer

Has this ever happened? You opened your Telegram account on someone else's computer and forgot to leave. Or they left their laptop at home and your family member is using it. You don't always want them to read the correspondence or see notifications of incoming messages.

Almost all modern messengers have the ability to log out on one device through another.

To end all Telegram sessions, except for the one that is now open on your device, you need to open Settings -> Select "Devices" -> End all other sessions or end any of the sessions individually. Open / Comment

2021-05-26 08:12:06 Da Vinci Capital has filed a lawsuit against Telegram

The reason for the lawsuit was the "not completely correct" offer of the Telegram company on the return of TON investments.

The fund received an offer to return the investment "in 24 hours before the deadline," which prevented Da Vinci from checking the documents. And therefore, to get a return on investment in a time.

The managing partner of the fund said: before that he had received "quite a lot of different conflicting notifications that tokens will come out, then that they will not come out, then that they will come out again."

As a result, it was difficult for them to decide whether to return the money or convert it into credit.

Da Vinci representatives tried several times to contact the Telegram management to conclude an amicable agreement.

However, they did not receive an answer, as Telegram considered the claims absurd. A source close to Telegram's top management explained the fund's late receipt of the offer. For a long time Da Vinci did not provide information on the presence of US residents among depositors. Open / Comment

2021-05-19 19:42:57 The New York Times uncovered that Apple is involved in large-scale surveillance and censorship at the behest of China. It is sad, but not surprising: big tech companies often choose profits over freedoms.

Apple is very efficient at pursuing their business model, which is based on selling overpriced, obsolete hardware to customers locked in their ecosystem.

Every time I have to use an iPhone to test our iOS app I feel like I’m thrown back into the Middle Ages. The iPhone’s 60Hz displays can’t compete with the 120Hz displays of modern Android phones that support much smoother animations.

The worst part of Apple’s tech though is not clunkier devices or outdated hardware. Owning an iPhone makes you a digital slave of Apple – you are only allowed to use apps that Apple lets you install via their App Store, and you can only use Apple’s iCloud to natively back up your data.

It’s no wonder that Apple’s totalitarian approach is so appreciated by the Communist Party of China, which – thanks to Apple – now has complete control over the apps and data of all its citizens who rely on iPhones. Open / Comment

2021-05-15 15:21:06 Top 5 Telegram features you need to know about

1. Highlighting the fragment in the message text

How: long press on a message, and then highlight the part of the text.

2. Timestamp on video

In one message with a link to a YouTube video, write a timestamp, for example 03:20, where minutes are indicated first, then seconds.

3. Delayed sending not in time, but when the recipient is online

How: when sending a postponed message, choose not the time, but the button "when will be online"

4. Return to the chat that was open

Nothing needs to be done, this is part of one of the latest updates. When you open a new message through a notification, when you return back, you will be taken to the same chat where you were. Previously, they were included in the general menu.

5. Mark the message as new

The function is available by long-clicking on a chat from the general chat list. In case you need not forget about the message you have read. Open / Comment

2021-05-12 11:07:06 New versions of Telegram

The latest update isn't only about deferred voice chats and payments. But also two new web versions of Telegram.

Both versions support animated stickers, night mode, chat folders and more - and work great on mobile devices.

No applications need to be installed, just log in via webk.telegram.org or webz.telegram.org by downloading the web version of the messenger. Then enter the password that will be sent in the application and done.

The same user-friendly interface as in the application. And in fact, independence from the AppStore and Google Play stores. Open / Comment

2021-05-06 12:08:06 Telegram CEO is looking for an assistant

The Telegram website has a section with the vacancies. Among them we found a content moderator, translator, C / C ++ programmer, accountant and ... assistant to CEO.

If Pavel Durov, Telegram Founder, is now the CEO of Telegram (and who else can be CEO?), Then the assistant will keep his calendar, make appointments, book tickets and organize trips.

For all vacancies, a mandatory item is fluent English.

All vacancies: https://telegram.org/jobs Open / Comment

2021-05-01 17:14:40 Telegram gets money again

The Telegram Group company is placing Eurobonds for $ 750 million. The securities will enter the market on May 6.

The minimum lot for purchase was $ 500 thousand, the par value of the bond was $ 1,000, as in the first placement. The maturity date is 22 March 2026 and the coupon rate is 7% per annum.

The additional bond issue is targeted at international investors. The buyers of 50% of the bonds are Asian funds, 40% come from large global institutional funds and 10% will go to Russian companies.

According to the source, when planning this release, Durov initially focused on Western and Asian demand. There were many investors who showed interest in Telegram bonds at the moment when the placement of the first issue was finalized.

However, Asian funds are very slow. When it became clear that Telegram would not have time to organize transactions with a part of large funds from Asia within the framework of the March bond issue, Durov decided to close the oversubscribed order book and then conduct an additional issue. Open / Comment