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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Messaging client Telegram has breached the 1 billion downloads barrier on the Google Play Store. Many are now pointing out how this surge may have been caused due to the recent Facebook server outage, ...

Telegram is now part of an elite club of apps that have been downloaded over 1 billion times globally, according to Sensor Tower. As reported by TechCrunch, Telegram has the same largest market as ...

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 ...

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 ...