In what has been cast by diplomats as Russia's "great crackdown", Russia has repeatedly blocked mobile internet and granted sweeping powers...

Telegram's billionaire founder, Pavel Durov, said on Saturday that Russia's attempt to block Virtual Private Networks (VPN) triggered a pro...

Russia is promoting its own messenger app, MAX, as foreign communication platforms face restrictions. Many Russians are reluctant to adopt ...

End-to-end encryption is a communications process that ensures that only the sender and recipient can access the contents of a message. The...

Telegram, ⁠one of the most popular messenger services in Russia, is widely used by Russian forces fighting in Ukraine, but is under pressur...

Russia's move against WhatsApp is the culmination of six months of pressure on the U.S. company.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov was speaking a day after Roskomnadzor, the state communications regulator, said Telegram would face ⁠furthe...

Russia has partially restricted calls on WhatsApp, claiming it’s a necessary step to fight fraud, extortion, and terrorism. The government ...

Russia’s telecom watchdog will partially restrict calls on Telegram and WhatsApp, Interfax reported. Following a new law by President Putin...

Among other features, Telegram also launched voice-to-text for video messages.

Telegram has gone from the 56th most downloaded free app in the United States to the fifth.

WhatsApp usage among financial traders tracked by communications surveillance firm VoxSmart has boomed as banks accept that clients want to...

Pavel Durov said that Telegram will never force its users to watch ads.

Telegram said focused on enabling the group and channel admins to make their forums interactive' and 'safer' than before, these features wi...

Experts say these apps add more privacy features than security features. Telegram, too, provides a similar feature through Secret Chats, wh...

The new update will be similar to Telegram’s “secret chat” feature.

As Paris came under attack on Friday, the social networks scrambled to delete celebratory tweets and threats from Islamic State supporters.