The mayor of Romania’s capital of Bucharest won the country’s presidential election, placing a staunch pro-European ...

It also targets WhatsApp for allegedly copying Telegram. Pavel Durov claims WhatsApp is running smear campaigns. Participants need to create a viral video. The video should be no longer than three ...

Telegram CEO Pavel Durov has been banned from leaving France after he was arrested there in 2024 for being complicit in the ...

Telegram CEO Pavel Durov alleges that French intelligence, led by Nicolas Lerner, requested the platform to censor conservative voices in Romania before the presidential election runoff.

Telegram just announced its first annual profit, raking in $540 million in 2024. Revenues also hit $1.4 billion, up from $343 million a year ago. The company is fully owned by Pavel Durov ...

Telegram founder and CEO Pavel Durov has alleged that France's intelligence chief asked him to "silence" Romanian conservative voices by banning them from his messaging app ahead of Sunday's ...

In a statement posted on Telegram, Durov expressed surprise at his arrest and criticized the notion that a CEO should be held responsible for third-party misuse of their platform. He argued that ...

approached Telegram, asking us to silence conservative voices in Romania ahead of today's presidential elections. I flatly refused," founder Pavel Durov wrote on Telegram. "Telegram will not ...

Telegram isn't publicly traded, and an IPO is uncertain due to criminal charges that founder and CEO Pavel Durov faces. Telegram's user base grew to 1 billion by 2025, but investing is limited to ...