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Telegram Gets Ban From Russia
Telegram Gets Ban From Russia
April 16, 2018  |  International

A Russian court has made it easier for the government to block the Telegram messaging app after its creators refused to turn over access to...

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Telegram Raises $1.7 Billion So Far With ICO
Telegram Raises $1.7 Billion So Far With ICO
April 02, 2018  |  Cryptocurrency

Telegram, the Dubai-based messaging app company, has added $850 million to the amount it has raised via an initial coin offering, bringing the total from...

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Siri Can Share Messages From Third-Party Apps On Locked Phones
Siri Can Share Messages From Third-Party Apps On Locked Phones
March 21, 2018  |  Apple

When iOS 11 debuted, Apple allowed iPhone users to have more privacy by letting them hide notifications on their lock screen until they unlocked their...

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Telegram Set To Break ICO Record At $850M
Telegram Set To Break ICO Record At $850M
March 01, 2018  |  Investments

As it seeks to build a payment platform using the blockchain, Telegram Group Inc. is tripling the price of coins in its initial coin offering...

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Viewing Video Though The Blockchain Lens
Viewing Video Though The Blockchain Lens
February 16, 2018  |  Blockchain

Blockchains have been touted as the rails-underpinning efforts to decentralize payments,  protect data, and share content.  And when it comes to sharing content, it follows...

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Ripple Sizzles, Retail Sales Fizzle And PepsiCo Makes Digital Deliver
Ripple Sizzles, Retail Sales Fizzle And PepsiCo Makes Digital Deliver
February 16, 2018  |  Sizzle/Fizzle

PepsiCo turned some heads with its quarterly earnings call announcement that it would take some of its tax reform windfall and reinvest it in improving the firm’s eCommerce...

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Kaspersky Points to Telegram Weak Spot in Crypto Mining
Kaspersky Points to Telegram Weak Spot in Crypto Mining
February 13, 2018  |  Blockchain / Distributed Ledger

Due to a vulnerability in Telegram’s messaging app, hackers have been able to rack up cryptocurrencies such as ZCash, as stated by Kaspersky Lab. Bloomberg...

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Telegram’s App Kicked Out Of App Store Over ‘Inappropriate Content’
Telegram’s App Kicked Out Of App Store Over ‘Inappropriate Content’
February 02, 2018  |  Apple

Telegram, the news organization operated by a Russian programmer who fled his country back in 2014, was removed from the App Store because of what...

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Silicon Valley VCs See Green In Telegram’s $600M ICO
Silicon Valley VCs See Green In Telegram’s $600M ICO
January 26, 2018  |  Investments

Three big Silicon Valley venture capital firms want to invest in Telegram’s initial coin offering (ICO), The Financial Times reported. Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Benchmark...

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