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2021-06-08 18:57:54 FAQ updated according to new IT Rules in India

Telegram updated its FAQ to add the designated Grievance Officer in accordance to the new IT Rules unveiled in India, applicable May 26, 2021 and onward.

According to the new rules, social media companies which have a significant user base must designate a Grievance and Nodal officer for compliance.

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2021-06-04 01:28:32 Video Calls and Live Streams are in Telegram

Telegram Android Beta version 7.8.0 received video stream support for voice chats. A user can cast their screen too.

Each participant may use their web-camera and cast their screen simultaneously.

Group videocalls are also available in Beta versions of Unigram and Telegram for MacOS.

You can test group video calling in @tginfochaten. At the moment, the video calling works only in chats.

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2021-05-28 22:37:41 Telegram explained Privacy Tags for the iOS app in App Store

Telegram updated own FAQ to explain Apple's Privacy Labels, applied to the Telegram app in App Store.

The messenger team mostly criticizes the labels that were assigned to the app since, as they state, most of them are misleading.

When comparing the labels that were assigned by Apple, you can blame the App Store moderators for being prejudiced indeed: Apple's decisions are relying on the functionality, which is available in Telegram app, even though Apple's Messages app has the mentioned features too.

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2021-05-24 19:11:29 Telegram is preparing a Telegram X contest

At the end of the message with Android animations contest results, the Telegram team announced a new contest: this time developers are going to work on new features for Telegram X.

According to the publication, the contest is starting this summer.

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2021-05-24 19:11:26 The results of the second round of Android developers are announced

The task of the contest was to implement animations in Telegram for Android based on the mockups provided, optimize them to run on older devices, and create an editor that allows tweaking their parameters.

Combined, the prizes contestants won are valuing $50,000.

Detailed information about the winners, their awards and works is on the official Telegram contest channel.

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2021-05-24 15:03:29 Da Vinci Capital announced a lawsuit against Telegram in London
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«Our foundation received this offer about 24 hours before the deadline, and many of our investors simply didn't get a physical opportunity to analyze the documents and, accordingly, to receive an adequate return on the investments that were made», - said Oleg Horniko.

The investors in the Da Vinci Capital Foundation claimed damages of several tens of millions of dollars for a failed project. Then the RBC source close to Telegram reported that investors were asking for $20 million, and according to Skadden lawyers in London representing Telegram interests, such claims had little chance of success, «since the contract clearly covered both costs and risks». Open / Comment

2021-05-23 22:42:44 Unigram — the Telegram app for UWP has turned 5 years old

Telegram Info congrats the developer, wishes luck in further development and user base growth.

UWP is an app platform which is available on Windows 10. In contrast to Telegram Desktop, Unigram supports secret chats, self-destructing photos, multi-windowed mode and many more other features.

Download | Installation help

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2021-05-20 15:00:05 Group video calls are available in beta for Windows 10 users

Unigram 7.8 Beta has received video support in voice chats.

What's new:
— Demonstration of the entire screen and individual applications.
— Ability to locally pin video to full screen.
— Ability to share the image from the screen and from the webcam at the same time.

Download | Installation help

At the moment, group video calls do not work in all chats. You can test them only in @unigraminsiders and @macswift.

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2021-05-19 21:45:06 Pavel Durov criticized Apple again

The reason for the post was information about the surveillance of users and Apple censorship at the direction of the Chinese Communist Party.

Durov also reproached Apple for inflated prices for outdated equipment and for the lack of 120 Hz in iPhones, which are even found in inexpensive Android smartphones.

However, the main focus of Pavel Durov is the digital slavery of Apple users. The company does not allow installing programs on its devices, that are not from the App Store.

As a reminder, Telegram recently released a version of its Android client that can be installed outside of Google Play. This client partially lacks censorship, which is in the version from Google Play. Open / Comment

2021-05-19 16:21:36 161 million downloads of Telegram for the last 4 months

The number of Telegram app downloads in the App Store and Google Play increased by 98% in comparison to the previous year and reached more than 161 million installations.

In January 2021, Telegram managed to reach 63.5 million installs, compared to 16.6 million a year ago. In April this year, a minor drop to 26.2 million downloads happened, compared to 27 million downloads in April last year.

The reason for Telegram's growth this year was the update of WhatsApp's privacy policy, according to which users' personal data will now be shared to be used in Facebook services.

The presented statistics includes data from January to April 2021.

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