Facebook has dominated app-based messaging for the last five years with its homegrown Messenger services and WhatsApp, which it bought in 2014. During this time would-be rivals like Signal and ...

You can now create t.me links to your phone number on Telegram. The app also has a new download manager to view, pause, resume, and prioritize downloads. If you’re ...

Instant messaging service and WhatsApp-rival Telegram has now crossed 500 million downloads among Android users. The listing on Google Play Store now shows 500 million plus downloads. Instant ...

Encrypted messaging apps Signal and Telegram are seeing huge upticks in downloads from Apple and Google’s app stores. Experts believe the shift may reflect a rush of conservative social media users ...

While Whatsapp has been touted as the world’s biggest messaging app, it’s facing fierce competition from its rival, Telegram. The app recently crossed the one billion download mark on the Google ...

Telegram has reached the peak of one billion downloads, and it is a massive achievement for the instant messaging application. The social messaging app is popular because of its tools and the user ...

Update, February 24: Ok, folks, it looks like things are gathering serious momentum. Telegram says it saw 5 million downloads on Sunday, and it is top of the App Store in nearly 50 countries worldwide ...

The arrest of Telegram founder and CEO Pavel Durov in France is starting to impact the app’s traction and ranking. On Saturday, the founder was arrested for allegedly allowing illegal activity to ...

HONG KONG, April 23 (Reuters) - Pavel Durov, billionaire founder and CEO of Telegram, said Apple's move last week to remove the chat app from its China app store had not caused any decrease in ...

The App Store is a strange and whimsical bedfellow. It is a kingmaker, but with that comes the tears of the anointed, the displaced and the never-rans. As an example of the store’s fickle nature, ...

Telegram CEO Pavel Durov was detained in France for allegedly failing to curb illegal activities on the messaging platform. Despite the arrest, Telegram has seen a rise in downloads, reaching the #2 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover mobile hardware, software and gaming. One of the biggest tech stories of the week is the explosive growth of Telegram, the ...