EghtesadOnline: The most searched terms on the Iranian Android market Cafe Bazaar were games, WhatsApp, Instagram and Telegram, in the second quarter of the fiscal 2019-20.
EghtesadOnline: A Moscow court ordered telecommunications companies to block Telegram in Russia after the chat app refused to grant intelligence authorities access to users’ encrypted messages, in a blow to the company just weeks after it raised $1.7 billion from investors.
EghtesadOnline: Tapping into the Gram cryptocurrency offered by the instant messaging app Telegram by Iranians is considered a “redline” in the eyes of the High Council of Cyberspace, the country’s watchdog and regulator of online activities.
EghtesadOnline: Telegram has announced that Iranian citizens will not be allowed to take part in Telegram Open Network initial coin offerings and will be prohibited from buying Gram cryptocurrency by the official Telegram group investor, Russian news agency RBC reported.
EghtesadOnline: A long-awaited updated for popular messaging application Telegram has been released and the app is now available in Persian.
EghtesadOnline: A recent update for Telegram, the most popular messaging app in Iran, was released over the weekend.
EghtesadOnline: A service which claims to insert advertisements into Telegram messenger channels has been launched in Iran, giving web administrators and marketing managers a new way to target consumers.
EghtesadOnline: CEO and founder of Telegram, Pavel Durov, took to Twitter on July 29 to say the company is set to regulate activities of modified versions of the application.